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1 "In God We Trust"
2 150 Twenty-Dollar Gold Pieces
3 155 Years Ago
4 1838 Fourth of July Celebration in Bloomsburg
5 1904 Susquehanna Floods
6 1916 Sugarloaf High School
7 25-Year Mystery Solved
8 2nd Bloomsburg County Fair 1917
9 A Bloomsburg Boy Makes the Big Time
10 A Bombing in Bloomsburg - 1896
11 A Brick Wall Comes Tumbling Down
12 A Civil War General from Briar Creek: Brig. Gen. Samuel M. Bowman
13 A Columbia County Composer - Otto P. Ikeler
14 A Eureka Moment
15 A History of Bloomsburg through Methodist Parsonages
16 A Lost Landmark: The First Federal Building
17 A Lucky Find
18 A New Railroad Comes to Berwick
19 A Peek into The Columbia County Chronicles of Morbid Curiosity
20 A Preview of the Ostrich Farm
21 A Prime Site
22 A Quick Look at Bloomsburg in the Late Nineteenth Century
23 A Sketch of Orangeville
24 A Tombstone With A Story
25 A Tribute to Bonnie L Farver
26 A Truly Unique Name
27 A Year in the Life, Part 1
28 A Year in the Life, Part 2
29 Achieving the American Dream
30 Alexander W. Rae Murder
31 Among the Stones
32 An Escaped Slave's Story
33 An Interesting Review of the Past Fifty Years
34 An Old School House
35 An Old-Fashioned Christmas
36 ATA Memorial in Millville, PA
37 Berwick Boom
38 Berwick's Master Horseman: O.P. 'Port' Hart
39 Birch Oil
40 Blast from the Past
41 Blast from the Past, Part 2
42 Blast from the Past, Part 3
43 Bloomsburg and Danville Rivalry
44 Bloomsburg Artificial Ice Company
45 Bloomsburg as a Lumber Town
46 Bloomsburg Brick Company
47 Bloomsburg Fair, 1891 to 1941
48 Bloomsburg Gets Gas Lights
49 Bloomsburg Goes West: The Vanderslice Brothers in Kansas
50 Bloomsburg History, Hollywood Style
51 Bloomsburg's Grand Opera House
52 Bloomsburg's Tabernacles
53 Breaker Boy Chronicles (historical fiction)
54 Building Locomotives in Bloomsburg
55 BUSH’S CONFECTIONERY AND AN IMMIGRANT ITALIAN FAMILY
56 C. W. Fortner Letters
57 Cages on Graves Explained
58 Canal Days
59 Catawissa Railroad
60 Catherine Smith Fowler
61 CCC Camp Morton
62 Centralia Fire
63 Centralia Wants Out of Columbia Co.
64 Charles F. Rabb - describes Bloomsburg in mid 1800's
65 Charles R. Buckalew
66 Christian Brobst's Grand Dream: The Catawissa Canal
67 Civil War 150 Years Ago - Mar 2011
68 Civil War 150 Years Ago - Sep 2011
69 Civilian Conservation Corps
70 Clayton and Lottie's Story
71 Cole Genealogy
72 Columbia and Montour Trolley
73 Columbia Co. and Presidential Elections
74 Columbia County Calamity
75 Columbia County Indentured Servants
76 Columbia County Ingenuity - 19th Century Patent Awards
77 Columbia County Marriage Dockets on FamilySearch.org
78 Columbia County Poor Farm Interments Identified
79 Columbia County Reaction to Attack on Fort Sumter
80 Columbia County Volunteers in the Spanish-American War
81 Columbia County War Dead
82 Columbia County's First Poem
83 Columbia Iron Ore
84 Courthouse Jack
85 Daniel Snyder
86 Dealing with the Delawares (Lenni-Lenape)
87 Dillon Base Ball Club of Bloomsburg
88 Diphtheria in Bloomsburg
89 Discovering Noted Jurist in Old Rosemont Cemetery
90 DNA and Endogamy
91 Dobbin Makes a Comeback
92 Don't Wait to Discover Your Story
93 Dr. Jim in The Great War
94 Early Centralia - Two Letters
95 Early Coal Transportation/Who Were the Molly Maguires
96 Early Photographers
97 Early Vital Records from Family Bibles
98 Eddie Burgess - From Millville Schoolboy to Pawnee Chief
99 Election Celebration - James K. Polk
100 Elusive Female
101 Espy Gets Boat Yards
102 Face from the Past
103 Face from the Past, Crossley Style
104 Farm Boy to Politico: William Trenton Creasy
105 First Class Town
106 First Silk Mill and Opera House
107 Forks of the Susquehanna
108 From Colonial Hotel to Good Old Days
109 From Mill to Civil War
110 From Whence the Next Clue Comes
111 GAR Ent Post 250-Memory Book
112 Garrison, Lloyd and 19th Century Bloomsburg
113 Going to the Bloomsburg Fair - 1870
114 Grange
115 Greenwood Literary Society
116 Greenwood Valley
117 Grocery Store Business
118 Ground Broken For Canal in Berwick
119 Halcyon Days of Espy and Boating
120 Harman & Hassert's Foundry & Machine Shops
121 Harriet Reifsnyder Sharpless, Civil War Nurse from Bloomsburg
122 Harrington or Benton Foundry?
123 He is Demented!
124 Hemlock Fulling Mill
125 Henry Carver in Bloomsburg
126 Henry Ohl Gravestone
127 Hiram "Daddy" Shultz
128 History of Creveling Cemetery
129 History of the Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society
130 History Society is Organized in Columbia County
131 Horse Furiously Driven Through Bloomsburg Streets
132 Hungry Sam
133 Important Finds in the General Register Office
134 Interesting Sketch of Lively Berwick
135 Intriguing Kidnapping or Not
136 Iron Guards and Brockway Letter
137 Iron Ore Furnace at Mainville
138 Is There a Veteran in the House?
139 It Came to Me in a Dream
140 Jacob Keller - Witness to the execution of Lincoln
141 James Cleaver
142 Jamison City
143 Jamison City as I Remember It
144 Jefferson Davis' Guard
145 Johannes Creveling and His Descendants
146 Joseph Thornburg
147 Labor Day in Bloomsburg
148 Last Hotel in Bloomsburg
149 Levy's Mills
150 Liberty Iron Furnace
151 LIBRARY TREASURES: OLD AUTOGRAPH BOOKS and OLD VALENTINES
152 Lifeless Iron Ore
153 Light Street
154 Lillian May Kline
155 Looking Backward: One Room School
156 Lost Covered Bridges of Columbia County
157 Louis Bernard
158 Ludwig Mensinger of Mifflin Township
159 Mac Wrote Some Lively Letters: A Prolific Local Scribe of WW-I
160 Many Changes in Bloomsburg after Fifty-four Years
161 Many Changes in Millville in Last Quarter Century
162 May Day 1913
163 McKelvy Warehouse
164 Molly Justice (historical fiction, e-book)
165 Mordansville
166 More than a Tombstone
167 Mount Pleasant Skunk Farm
168 Mrs. Wilson Creasy Diary
169 Mummer's Parade
170 My Buddy
171 Mysteries Solved, CCHGS to the Rescue
172 Norma, Where are You?
173 North Branch Canal
174 Old History for the Young
175 Old Recipes
176 Old Time Politicking
177 On the Street Where You Live
178 One of Our Own
179 Orphans Court Records in Columbia County
180 Paul E. Wirt
181 Pioneer Days in Northern Columbia County
182 Play Ball! Major League Baseball in Bloomsburg
183 Pole Raising
184 Preserving History in Miniature
185 President Rutherford B. Hayes
186 Punishment Handed Down in Felony Case - 1784
187 Quakers in Early Columbia County Part 1
188 Quakers in Early Columbia County, Part 2
189 Quakers in Early Columbia County, Part 3
190 Recollections of Benton
191 Remembering the Phillips Family
192 Remembers Well Death of Lincoln
193 Revisiting Columbia County Forts
194 Revolutionary War Pensioners of Columbia County
195 Rich Man, Poor Man, Assemblyman, Thief: The Decline of Dan Seybert
196 River Ferry Service
197 Rural Free Delivery in Columbia County
198 Safety-First Dept. Helping Foreigners to Study English
199 Sarah Van Tassel
200 School History of Columbia County, Part One
201 School History of Columbia County, Part Two
202 Schools of Long Ago
203 Shad Fishing At Bloomsburg
204 So You Want to be a Genealogist
205 Society Homes over the Years
206 Solving Family Mysteries, Parts One and Two
207 Some Early Marriages and Parentings
208 Some Historical Facts about Northern Columbia County
209 Sports and Entertainment at Bloomsburg Fair
210 St. John Lutheran Church, Espy
211 Steam Plant
212 Steamboat blows up outside of Berwick - 1826
213 Stillwater and Vicinity
214 Stillwater Christian Church Bell
215 Story of Delilah German and her son Jerry Holdren
216 Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike
217 Susquehanna River Coal
218 The African Farm and Feather Company
219 The Argus: Benton Newspaper
220 The ballad of John Funston
221 The Bloomsburg Wheelmen and the 19th Century Cycling Craze in Columbia County, Part 1
222 The Bloomsburg Wheelmen and the 19th Century Cycling Craze in Columbia County, Part 2
223 The Catawissa Quilt
224 The Catawissa Railroad
225 The Centennial of the Columbia County Soldiers? and Sailors? Monument
226 The Christmas Fog Miracle of 1897
227 The City Hotel
228 The Corner Store
229 The Earliest Map of Columbia County
230 The Early Ikelers: Two Lessons in Research
231 The Fishing Creek Confederacy
232 The General Store, Part 1
233 The General Store, Part 2
234 The Great 1850 Flood of Nescopeck Creek
235 The Horse Dealer
236 The Hunterdon-Warren County, NJ to Columbia County, PA Connection
237 The Jerseytown Coal Mine
238 The Judge
239 The Kinney Odyssey: From Sereno to Geronimo
240 The Lick Run Schoolhouse
241 The Life and Times of Lydia W. Drinker
242 The Man Court Ordered to Leave Columbia County at Age 83
243 The Mexican Border Campaign
244 The Mysterious Photo Album
245 The Nescopeck Path
246 The Neyhards: Columbia County Surveyors
247 The Old Hundred
248 The Phillips Sisters
249 The Proprietor of Bloomsburg: John Adam Eyer
250 The Ruby Necklace
251 The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
252 The Signature
253 The Solleder Arrowhead Project
254 The Story of Juan Jose Osuna
255 The Tarr Family: African-Americans in the Anthracite Region
256 The Wayback Machine led me to Mooseheart
257 The Whitmoyer Saga
258 The WPA Files
259 The Yorks-Yost Mansion
260 Thomas Trench, Papermaker and Inventor
261 Travel: Mail Coach vs. Railroad
262 Treasures in the Attic
263 Trip up Fishing Creek Valley
264 Two Civil War Letters
265 Two Hartman Letters
266 Verus Ritter’s Bloomsburg: How One Architect Helped Shape a Community – Part 1
267 Verus Ritter’s Bloomsburg: How One Architect Helped Shape a Community – Part 2
268 Victorian Parlor at Christmas
269 Wagner Boys on the Orphan Train
270 What Happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Part 2
271 What Happened to the Signers of the Declaration? Part 1
272 What I Learned About Johannes Hauck, First Furnace Master of Columbia County
273 Whose Father Was He?
274 Will the Real George Mowrey Please Stand Up?
275 With Drums Beating and Colors Flying
276 Wyoming Massacre
277 YES, There Are State Censuses