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

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

, 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

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