The First Columbia &i4 By Robert H. GOODELL On March 28, 1809, an act of Assembly was approved, which authorized the Governor of Pennsylvania to incorporate a company for the purpose of making and erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna. River in Lancaster County, at or near the town of Columbia

Trolley Lines Columbia By JOHN D. DENNEY, JR. The First Trolley Car Line FOR MANY years before the coming of the automobiles and good highways, the electric trolley car was the most popular means of local and suburban transportation. Practically all the larger towns in Pennsylvania had trolley

1,500 to 2,000 arks and rafts and a large number of keel-boats to come to Columbia upon one freshet. A large number of the former, of course, passed down the river. The legal profession has not been neglected, and, for a town not a shire-town, she has had her share of these gentlemen. They were as fol

Spy L &well and "The Columbia Spy By ROBERT H. GOODELL In the early days of newspapers, Marietta was a hearty rival to Columbia, and also had its weekly newspaper. The Marietta Pilot was published as early as November, 1813, by John Huss, a soldier of the war of 1812. The earliest copy of the Pilot