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