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Biographical and Historical Essays (231 of 231)

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

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