Photos of the Month
June 2014
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Columbia County Sesquicentennial Celebration
Edwin Barton receiving Columbia County Sesquicentennial Certificate during celebration, June 22, 1963.
May 2014
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May Carnival
Old Time Carnival on Main Street, Bloomsburg, showing the Gelb & Mayer, Trolley Tracks, Paver Road, Billboard Sign, and Yama Yama Girls. Circa 1895.
April 2014
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Bloomsburg Ferry on the Susquehanna River
The Ferry was at the same place as the River Bridge is today. The horses came from Buckalew's Livery. People on the Ferry were staying at the Exchange Hotel. Photo circa 1885.
March 2014
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Little League Baseball
Photo of the first organized Little League Baseball game at Athletic Park, Bloomsburg. The tall building in the background is Bloomsburg Builders Supply. Circa 1948.
February 2014
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Shaffer's Horse Auction
Here is the large crowd at Shaffer's Horse Auction. February 22, 1937 in Briar Creek.
January 2014
December 2013
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Season's Greetings!
Drawing by Phyllis Rhodomoyer, age 93, resident at Balanced Care Nursing Home, Bloomsburg.
We here at the Historical & Genealogical Society would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We here at the Historical & Genealogical Society would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
November 2013
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1942 Fourth Grade Class of Fifth Street School, Bloomsburg
Some children wearing hats of the time of various branches of the military armed services.
September 2013
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1940s Bloomsburg Fair
A 1940’s scene of the adult ride section of the Bloomsburg Fair seen showing the Third Street School (replaced by a seniors living complex known as The Towers) to the upper left and the steeple of the Wesley United Methodist Church to the Right.