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

more than one genera- tion in Lancaster County. 16 Some of them had been born slaves in Columbia or Fulton township, while most of the other Ne groes had come from other areas of Pennsylvania or the upper South." A num- ber of the Negroes descended from the earliest black county famil- ies had been

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

of the same era. At the six- �90/4,1986 215 teenth "American Convention for promoting Abolition of Slavery and im- proving the condition of the African Race" which met on October 5, 1819 in Philadelphia the report presented by the Columbia, Pennsylvania Society is quite informative. After apologizing

, panes of glass, stories of the house, type build- ings on the premise, acres owned, adjacent properties, the valua- tion of the house and land, and, at the end of each county list, names of all slaves and black indentured. The major inadequacy of the lists is that the Chester and Lancaster County lists

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

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