Photos of the Month

August 2015

Typhoid Epidemic

August 1910 typhoid epidemic, showing the inside of a temporary hospital at Lime Ridge. #26-0050.

July 2015

Independence Day Parade

July 4th parade at Jamison City, circa 1904. (15-0019)

June 2015

Unidentified Couple

Are these people your relatives? This photo was in our Unidentified File. If you know who they are, please contact The Society.

May 2015

Wise Potato Chip Plant Fire

03-0169. Photo of the fire at the Wise Potato Chip plant, May 19, 1944.

April 2015

1904 Flood

March 10, 1904. Picture showing the flooding on 9th Street in Bloomsburg. The flood was caused by an ice jam on the Susquehanna River. The ice jam was broken up by using dynamite to blow up the ice. 16-0038.

March 2015

Civil War Veterans of Columbia County - Updated

Here is a listing of the Civil War Veterans shown in last month's Photo of the Month.
1. Thomas Ferguson, 2. Albert Hervine, 3. U. H. Ent, 4. William Kern, Co. "A", 5. M. V. B. Kostenbauder, Co. "A", 6. O. F. Benson, Co. "F", 7. W. W. Johnson, 8. O. D. Lyon, 9. Unknown, 10. William Kellow "C", 11. G. A. Buckingham, 12. G. M. Blaker, 13. J. B. Robison, 14. Wm E. Coffman "A", 15. B. F. Sharpless "A", 16. A. B. Jamison "A", 17. W. H. H. Gore, 18. C. S. Fornwald "A", 19. James Bowman "B", 20. Thomas McKane "C", 21. Milton McFarland, 22. Halsey Lathrop "C", 23. C. B. Brockway "A", 24. Daniel Ely "I", 25. John K. Beltz "A", 26. John Horn "E", 27. H. J. Conner "A", 28. Charles F. Wood Sutter, 29. Thomas Griffith "A", 30. Samuel Knorr "A", 31. Henry Kern "A", 32. Randolph Hayman "A", 33. George Watters "A", 34. William Hollingshead "A", 35. Daniel Bradbury "F", 36. Flemons Jacoby "A", 37. H. C. Bowman "A", 38. H. B. McKean, 39. I. H. Seesholtz "A", 40. George W. Mears "A", 41. C. S. Furman "A", 42. Sylvester Hower "A", 43. Alonzo Jacoby "A", 44. George Whitesides "A", 45. Hiram Lewis "A"

February 2015

Civil War Veterans of Columbia County

This photo is from approximately 1865. The Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society has the names of the men, pictured, at the Society.

January 2015

Roaring Creek Post Office in Slabtown, circa 1900

The first Post Office in Slabtown consisted of a box with a sliding lid on a post. John Yeager was Post Master. The box and post was removed in 1847. In 1855 the Roaring Creek Post Office was established, and operated in conjunction with a general store. The Post Office burned down January 22, 1954. Submitted by John Burba. Researched by Bob Visnosky.

December 2014

Christmas Toy Matinee

Photo of children waiting to get into the Columbia Theater on Centre Street, Bloomsburg, for the Christmas season Saturday morning Toy Matinee, sponsored by the Bloomsburg American Legion, December 6, 1952.

November 2014

Wrecked Trolley Cars in Bloomsburg

Correction: This photo was taken at the Berwick Road trolley barn in August 1918, after a head-on collision that occurred between Bloomsburg and Danville. Thank you, Bob Dunkelberger, for the clarification.

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