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

toll charges?" Both organizations replied, express- ing a willingness and a desire to cooperate. Both sent representa- tives to a meeting held in Columbia on January 4, 1922. Lancaster's representatives were its committee chairman, S. E. Gable, President of the Lancaster Automobile Club, and committee

Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and improving the condition of the African race" held in Philadelphia on October 5, 1819 illuminates the relationship between Columbia Blacks and the majority community. �Four abolition societies met in Philadelphia that day—from New York, Pennsylvania

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

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

. Citizens of Columbia, I beg your leave here and now to bring to your minds the services of the real pioneer of this town and the "Father of Lan- caster county"—John Wright. �From 1718 to 1726 he was in public life in old Chester, Chester county, of which county we were then a part. He was a justice of the

JOHN SCOTT AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The history of the public schools of the community surrounding Donegal is linked with the early history of Donegal itself. Especially is this true with regard to the townships of East Donegal and Conoy and the Borough of Marietta. Prior to the establish- ment of

Columbia on the South and from Chickies and Mt. Hope on the West to Lancaster and Quarryville on the East. The famous "camelback" locomotives of the Philadelphia and Reading, manned mostly by Pennsylvania-German crews, steamed importantly back and forth over the busy little system. The author's earliest

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

- lishing schools in early times in the Valley of the Octorara, prior to the advent of the public school system. Amongst these Irish schoolmasters was one, Thos. Haslett' a peculiar character' irritable, combative and boisterous; however' an excellent scholar, said to be a graduate of Trinity College' as