The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

The Reading and Columbia Railroad John D. Denney, Jr. One hundred years ago, on March 15, 1864, the first train ran from Columbia to Reading over the newly-built Reading and Columbia Rail- road. At its height, the world of the Reading and Columbia extended from Sinking Springs on the North to

REMINISCENCES OF A COLUMBIA BOY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN By C. H. Martin About May 1, 1926, the fact, came to the author's attention, that Mr. D. J. Richards still living at Hazard, Kentucky, was in the Ford theater at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. Communication

II. RIVAL FERRIES OVER THE SUSQUEHANNA IN 1787- • WRIGHT'S AND ANDERSON'S By Geo. R. Prowell, Esq. The recent construction of two large bridges across the Susquehanna at Harrisburg, and the plan proposed to have the river, between Columbia and Wrightsville, spanned by a large bridge with the

DAVID CROCKETT IN COLUMBIA By William Frederic Worner In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for Decem- ber, 1923, there is a brief article relative to the eccentric frontiersman and congressman, Colonel David Crockett. In that paper I referred to Crockett's visit to

The Fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge Robert S. Mayo, C. E. Until November 11, 1930, all the main line traffic of U.S. 30, the Lincoln Highway, crossed the Susquehanna on a bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was a single-track bridge, the ties of which were covered with wood planks to give