part is now presented for the first time and the whole of it put in form to be of interest, if not of value. The recent destruction of the Columbia bridge prompted my writing a sketch of it, so that there might be a record made of its continuous history, and I will open this paper with that sketch

struggles with Maryland cen- tered here. Two bandits, named Lowe, terrorized everybody a year or more, until a body of constables from Lancaster county shot and crippled them in their cabins Just opposite Co- lumbia. About 1732, nearly 200 Mary- landers appeared opposite the present Columbia and began to

Trolley Lines Columbia By JOHN D. DENNEY, JR. The First Trolley Car Line FOR MANY years before the coming of the automobiles and good highways, the electric trolley car was the most popular means of local and suburban transportation. Practically all the larger towns in Pennsylvania had trolley

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

1,500 to 2,000 arks and rafts and a large number of keel-boats to come to Columbia upon one freshet. A large number of the former, of course, passed down the river. The legal profession has not been neglected, and, for a town not a shire-town, she has had her share of these gentlemen. They were as fol

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