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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:
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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:

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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."

 

 

 

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