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

. Patton was in ill health, and it was advised she should leave Columbia; so Major Patton sold the Spy in April 1843, to Eli Bowen and Jacob L. Gossler, brother of Philip Gossler. In the meanwhile the Spy was published on the second floor of the frame build- ing, opposite the Washington House, southwest