Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and

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