Pennsylvania State...
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Pennsylvania Counties
|
|
 |
|
|
| |
|
|
Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Columbia County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Bloomsburg
Year Organized: 1813
Square Miles: 486 |
Court House: P.O. Box 380
County Courthouse
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-0380
|
Etymology - Origin of County Name
Its name is a poetic allusion to America.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 22, 1813 from part
of Northumberland County. Its name is a poetic allusion to America.
Bloomsburg, the county seat since November 30, 1847, was incorporated as a town
on March 4, 1870, and is the only incorporated town in the state. Its name comes
from Bloom Township, which was named for Samuel Bloom, a commissioner of
Northumberland County. Danville, the county seat from 1813 to 1846, is now the
seat of Montour County.
Native American communities had long lived here along the Susquehanna River, and
the first white settlement was south of the river. Berwick was laid out in 1783.
As a North Branch Canal depot and then a railroad station, Catawissa grew and
served a thriving farm region. Anthracite mining and a lumber boom arose but,
like Columbia's farming, yielded to competition in the 1930s. Abandoned deep
coal mines have burned for decades beneath the town of Centralia. ACF's railroad
car complex and Bloomsburg's silk and carpet works prospered until the national
trend toward deindustrialization began in recent decades. ACF manufactured tanks
during World War II. The county's farming has emphasized fruit and field crops;
in 1992 Columbia ranked 37th among all 67 counties in value of farm crops. Farms
cover 37 percent of the county's area. There were Underground Railroad stations
at Berwick and Millville. Some of the accused Molly Maguires were tried in
Bloomsburg in 1877.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
|
- Benton |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Berwick |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Bloomsburg
(County
Seat) |
town |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Briar Creek |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Catawissa |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Centralia |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Cleveland |
township |
|
|
- Fishing Creek |
township |
|
|
- Greenwood |
township |
|
|
- Hemlock |
township |
|
|
- Locust |
township |
|
|
- Main |
township |
|
|
- Mayberry |
township |
|
|
- Millville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Newlin |
township |
|
|
- North Centre |
township |
|
|
- Orange |
township |
|
|
- Orangeville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Pine |
township |
|
|
- Roaring Creek |
township |
|
|
- Scott |
township |
|
|
- South Centre |
township |
|
|
- Stillwater |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
Enter County Resources and Information Here
|
|
County Resource Guide
|
|
|
The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
|
|
| |
Penn Foster High School
|
|
|
|
