Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Bicentennial of the James Wright House and the Sesquicentennial of the Borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania By ELIZABETH F, G, HIESTAND a Five Great Granddaughter of John Wright Paraphrasing the words of the old familiar song, "The sun shone bright on the old

information of them. RIDING ON THE COLUMBIA AND PHILA- DELPHIA RAILROAD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is a small volume con of 148 pages, published, in 1836, by Grigg and Elliott, 9 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. The book is entitled, "A pleasant

MEETING IN COLUMBIA IN MEMORY OF CHARLES CARROLL By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XXXIV, p. 180, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "Resolu- tion on the Death of Charles Carroll, 1 Signer of the Declaration of Independence." Since that

left it by will to her nephew, Samuel Wright, who occupied it, and laid out the town of Columbia in 1788 and Columbia Extended in 1795, Jonathan Mifflin married Susannah Wright, daughter of James II in 1800, and went to live at "Woodbine," General Ewing's country seat in York County, but they came home

, June 23rd, 1931, by State and county officials at the unveiling of a bronze memorial tablet to perpetuate his memory, by The Pennsylvania Society of The Colonial Dames of America. The exercises, held in the armory at Columbia, were attended by approx- imately one hundred and fifty persons

. Incidentally, whenever I come to Columbia I remember much else. I remember Columbia as a center, for a long century, of another picturesque interest,—rafting; I remember the town as the center of a great canal sys- tem; then as an early railroad center; I remember it happily for its past mem- ories of shad