A Prologue to the Construction of the Fifth Columbia- Wrightsville Bridge by L. W. Newcomer Construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville bridge across the Susquehanna River is described, and recorded for posterity, in the Journal of The Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1969

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

James Wright home" on Sunday, September 25, 1938, when the Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet placed on the wall of this old stone mansion during the Sesquicentennial of Columbia, This tablet was designed and worded by Dr, Herbert H, Beck, president of the Lancaster County

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Witmer, Abraham. Bridges--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Conestoga Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Witmer's Bridge (Lancaster, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1916 Description: 155-174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster

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

lines in Lancaster County. This new organization, the Pennsylvania Traction Company, took steps to acquire not only the lines to Columbia, Marietta and the "Belt," but also the city lines in Lancaster and the rural lines running to Millersville and Lititz. Consequently, on February 5, 1894, all of the

, with 48 arches, 52 feet in width, and is a four-track structure. His assistant in the bridge construction, George Nauman, was also a Lancastrian. ENOS EllMAKER (1800-1885), born in Earl Township, Lancaster County, laid the first tulip or edge railingon the new Columbia and Philadelphia Rail- road in

with Pennsylvania. The petition was copied from Bishop Perry's work which accounts for the error creeping into the pages of the Journal of The Lancaster County His- torical Society. A photostat copy of the original petition now in the archives of the S. P. G., in London, reveals that its correct date

Bender, 1839-1919. Title: The early telegraph / by W. B. Wilson, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Columbia Bridge Company. Telegraph--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Telegraph--Pennsylvania--History. Columbia Bridge (Columbia, Pa.) Columbia (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County

after Philadelphia and York County. Lancaster County maintained this prominent position up to the Civil War. In 1860 for example, it ranked third after Philadelphia and Chester County with 3,459—this figure represents a slight loss over 1850 ( — 4.3%). Columbia Borough had the largest urban free Black