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Relief Map of COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pennsylvania
Surrounding areas are also included. Reproduced from Army Map Service
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Maps. Used with permission. Boundaries of Columbia County, other
SUPERIMPOSED.
LINES
INK
STREAMS, HAVE BEEN EMPHASIZED BY ADDITIONAL
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North Mountain
CONTENTS
Geography
of
Summary
9
Columbia County
Scenic Tours of
Agricultural and
Home
Economics
19
Extension Office
Agricultural Stabilization
Ambulance
Armed
Services
and Conservation 19
— regular enlistments
in
.
15
Municipal Directories
17
Highway Commission
Pennsylvania State
Policing
15
Political
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.
18
Part
7
8
Real Estate Assessments
17
9
Red Cross
16
Bloomsburg Fair
Board of Assistance
18
Scenery, Enjoying
18
School Enrollments
17
Sealer of Weights
18
Sightseeing Tours
2
Soil Conservation,
Chambers
The Pennsylvania
Commerce
of
Child Welfare Services
Cities, Classes of
Civil
Defense
17
Bloomsburg State
Columbia County Names
Columbia Countians of Distinction
College,
Department
Fire
and Waters
and Waters, Department
Geography of Columbia County
Forests
Historical Society
Highway Commission
of
— Pennsylvania
Hospitals,
Historical Society
torical society
Society holds meetings in
Columbia County
Unit for
19
2
3
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4
4
18
9
Voter Qualifications, Pennsylvania
Weights and Measures, Sealer of
13
Economy
2
Youth
15
Population Growth, 1840-1960
Further Reading and References
Acknowledgments
21
Land Use
21
Population by Political Divisions, 1950 and
Picture Credits
21
21
active his-
parts of the county.
These deal with interesting topics of the recent as well as
the more remote past. This, our current, effort, the Columbia County Guide, demonstrates the interest of the
Statistical Tables
Population Growth,. Columbia- County
5
.
10-11
5
16
TABLES
21
Services
library in Bloomsburg.
all
Columbia County Government
Borough Government in Pennsylvania
Township Government
Bloomsburg Town Government
Local Administration of Government
Columbia County Schools, Chart with
Veterans' Affairs
''Tax Anything"
— Columbia County has an
museum and
14
6
GRAPHIC CHARTS
16
16
with
and Measures
5
14
,
18
1
General
14
Districts
2
State 18
Historical Society
Our County
and Adjoining
Columbia County
8
2
of Forests
Inside front cover
Political Subdivision of
Law
17
Protection
Map, Columbia County Region
Townships, Classes of
Trolley Cars
Union School District
United Funds
5
17
Counties, Classes of
MAPS
Relief
14
Existing Authorities
Authorities,
The
14
Columbia County ....
Library Facilities
16
12
of County's History
7
Columbia County Taxes
of Pennsylvania
in
Columbia County
1960
Society in the present-day welfare of the county.
7
8
10-11
9
13
Knowl-
edge and understanding of the struggles and efforts embodied in our region's history, recent as well as remote,
are a necessary foundation for civic loyalty and devotion,
as well as
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Colombia County Court Room
Pennsylvania Voter Qualifications
Persons 21 years
of age of Pennsylvania birth, ipso facto citizens of United
and Pennsylvania. Residence qualifications: If
into the district
from another Pennsylvania
district, 2 mos. from outside the State, 1 yr., except native
States
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moving
even numbered years of one committee man and one
committee woman from each district, to hold office for
2 years, and to have charge of its party organization in the
born Pennsylvanians returning to the State, 6 mos.
Local and municipal elections in Pennsylvania are
scheduled for years without Presidential or Congressional
elections,
i.e.,
in the
odd numbered
years.
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Political Party
To qualify as a recognized Political
Party in a county, one of its candidates in the next preceding election must have polled at least 5% of the votes
any elected candidate. Only the Democratic and
Republican parties qualify as such in Columbia County.
Pennsylvania law recognizes a political party's political
committee elected according to the rules of such party.
The rules of both Democratic and Republican parties
provide for the election at the spring primary election in
cast for
A county committee includes all the
committee members plus the state committeeman,
respective districts.
;
district
who
has also been elected by party vote at the same pri-
mary.
The county committee
holds
its
in the case of
Biennial Meeting in even
each party
numbered
years at
which meeting officers are chosen (chairman, vice-chairman) and other matters cared for.
Each party has an executive committee chosen according to its own rules. Each party must file its rules with
the County Board of Elections. The rules then become a
public document.
At the close of registration, September 19, 1960, registered voters included: 15,666 Democrats; 11,905 Republicans, 13 Prohibitionists, 256 non-partisan, and 8 inde,
pendents.
COUNTY
TAXES
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Taxes Levied by Columbia County Taxing Bodies for the Yeap
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Benton
Berwick
Briar Creak
Catawi ssa
Centra ia
12, 190
76,l*7l*.85* 1*2.20#
7.50
13,350
39.059.70
27.37
10.50
12.50
15.00
10.00
6,738
1*3.273.19
1*5.36
3,1*70
13.683.60
31.31
6,973.08
36.13
55.09
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Beaver
Benton
Briar Creek
Catawissa
Centre, N
Centre, S
Cleveland
Conyngham
Fishing Cr.
Frank lin
Greenwood
Hemlock
Jackson
Locust
Madi son
Main
Mifflin
Montour
Mt. Pleasant
Orange
10.5
21
31
15
26.5
472,010
I2,50f 29.1*3
22
23
20
32
1,1 15,1 10
3U-5
1,01*6,250
35,681 28.52
36, 09^ 27.81
20
2
16
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10
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19
2
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2
3.5
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3.5
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15
13.5
2-5
26
27
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1-5
26
2.5
3.5
21
21
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Roaring Cr.
S^ott
Sugar loaf
ll*
3.3
3.1
15,505 23.19
20.60E 29.98
50
21*
l*.75
2.5
BIO
36
32.75
26
22
30
29.5
25
67
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31*
1*1*1,
629,260
1.736,670
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1*5,152 2
1*88,610
lb.7i*9
^31*, 390
16,032
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713,020
675,ol*?
80 ,970
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301,320
1. 91*
18.76
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33.97E 30.20
17,825 23.01*
1*5, 22E 1*0.82
21*
26.93
10,21*5
15
21,230
59,390
650.77
73.03
57.33
1,1*53.86
172.20
i+,<5 98.75
20.00
37,752.36
151.01
55,1*13.82
221.66
293.28
73,318.68
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150.59
71*6
166.19
729
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22.30
231*
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1*1*0.1*2
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1*23,690
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195-36
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1*85,610
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23.72
36.77
51.27
27.00
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12,671
29.27
27,550
1*93.830
363,*»b3.55
1*5,050.00
169. 81*
1*75.12
1*39.28
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332.1*0
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1.01*6
18,080
37
1,185,580
1,138,750
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35.5
31.5
32.5
36.8
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31.5
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31*.1|20
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162,692.72
18,256.50
199.92
223.36
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275.36
520.56
312.92
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363 5.00
690 5.00
1.57 5.00
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21.60
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21*e.72
31,090
32,780
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27,920
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217.76
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322
857 2.00
56.1*0
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25 1,300.00
1,007.20
233
353
233
325
37
181.08
932.1*19-86
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3,729.67
1,360
220.1*0
300.00
1.20
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17,259.00
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10.00
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10.00
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15.00
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1,930
2,663
1,650
90,615
6,165
6,1*80
15,690
1*,225
5,1*1*!
767,1*88.00
I7.0B8.8I
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772. 61*
22, 355. 1*6
27,1*09.78
62,139.31*
15,21*6.95
21.757.69
6,900
6,855
8,70b
7,725
3,810
1*2,765.91*
190
1*7,61*2.1*0
10,935
3,510
1*7,636.1*7
25,127.56
511,1*68.56
57.55'
1*2.91*
32.58
39.90
33.12
26.61
33.73
38.01
32.1*6
1*9.16
13,921.91*
35.81
39.32
38.08
36.70
38.67
38,590.30
3l*.86
1*,330
37,1*60.36
20,983.1*0
39.35
38.08
10,281*
1
1
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9,900
7,185
33,01.9.93
16,709.50
1*5,336.1*2
27.61*
8,220
li9,036.1*8
1*9.53
l*,o63
19,890.86
3D. 3?
3,1*9
20,326.08
19,357.76
1*7.33
29.71*
5,295
3,1*95
ll*,l*3l*.9l*
36.82
27,900
5,325
137,372.75
13.220.60
1*2.52
1*2.08
Total oh Summary, where applicabue
1*08,873 2,1*52,335.50 1*6.11,
50,206,235
2,1*68,095 19, 71*1*. 76 S,l*20, 596.23 25,831.17 31,338
Supplementary explanations and notes:
This table is based on tax duplicates or advance esti mates of i960 taxes.
Actua co ect on according to experience closely anrrox imate advance estimates. Data were secured from offici
sources and from a Pennsylvania Economy Leaque Report, I96C.
Co umn B7
"Tax duplicate" in this and other columns, by local usaae, means the tax rolls of taxes levi ed.
Column E|. "Taxables" means adult taxpayers.
Columns headed, "Per capita tax", E , E3. E^, is a special usage designating a tax of a set amount on each ndi vi dua taxpayer , or "Taxab le."
2
"Per capita" as used in Columns Bg and F
and means the burden of the given tax, or taxes, if distributed
2 is according to the dictionary def
pqualty on every man, woman, and child, to be distinguished from per capita taxes noted above.
Column F ,
*Thls Berwick total has been increased by a special occupation tax of $10. CO levied
The approxi960 on all income earning occupations.
imately {56,891 collected from Borough taxpayers of this occupation ta:
rcreases
hen added to the total of these other four taxes in this tabulation,
the total from $7 10,593.53 to $767,1188. 00.
#This Catawissa total has been increased by a special wage tax in i960 of .QC5. As in the case of Berwick, the approximately $18,501 collected
Catawi ssa. when added to the total of these other four taxes In this tabulation. Increases the total from 857,973.97 to $76,1,74. 85I
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CASH RECEIPTS FROM COLUMBIA COUNTY FARMS,
Food Crops
&
Vegetables
Frutts
COLUMBIA
OF
COUNTY
I958
Horticultural Forest
Specialties Products
Dairy
Products
Other
Livestock
Products
Poultry
Total
& Poultry
all
Products Commodi
t
Government
Payments
Total Cash
Receipts
ies
$1,913,000 $195,000 $957,000
$1+0,000 $2,888,000 $1,1+13,000 $3,675.ooo $11,081,000 $312,000
$11,393,000
There were an estimated ,600 farm families. Using these figures yields an average of $6,925 per farm family
without government payments, $7,120 per farm family with government payments, gross figures in each case. (Derived from Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service, Annual Summary, I959.)
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ESTIMATED ANNUAL GROWTH ON COMMERCIAL FOREST LAND. (In thousands of board feet, except as Indicated.)
Hardwoods Softwoods
Annual Value Surplus Growth
over Cut
Annual Estimated at
or Deficit
$15.00 M
Cut
Totals
Net Surplus
,6.12
,660
12,825
-9.553
3.272
$192,375
5.26b
26,91
78,900
36,W>1+
1+1,721+
3,768
37.956
The annual cut of Saw Timber, 12,825 M, plus Pole Timber, 5,260 M, gives 18,080 M, which conservatively estimated at $15 per M gives an estimated $271,200 In value. (Derived from Pennsylvania
Statistical Abstract, I960, pp. 1+0-1+1.)
Saw Timber
Pole Timber
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Plants producing coal, sand, gravel, clays, and peat, had a value of production estimated at
(Derived from Mineral Statistics of
$6,186,000 in 1956, latest date for which figures available.
Pennsylvania, Department of Internal Affairs, April, 1959. P» 5-)
MANUFACTURING PLANTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
Wages
Employes
No. of
Capital
Plants Expenditures
during 1959
2ET
Food and kindred products
Textl le mi
products
Apparel and related products
Lumber and wood products
Printing and publishing
Stone, clay, & glass products
Fabricated metal products
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3,227
17
173,700
1,8)42
93,100
156
109
' 5,977,000
12,302,300
Value of
Value added
by
Production and
Related Activities Manufacture
$
27,905,300
1+9,713,500
826, 300
1+12,100
1+36,700
8
6,1+00
66
7
231
236,200
1,098,600
1+1
15I+.I1OO
13
106,500
8,900
1,636,800
3,550
18,287,200
12,676,700
1,359,800
881,800
706,900
3,653,900
583,000
89.501+, 300
107
$3,720,1+00
10,659 $1+3,730,800
$186,985,200
1+
Total manufacturing Industries
.1+37
909,600
3
Machinery, except electrical
All other industries
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Sa laries
1
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1+,
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I2,1j75,600
21,1+86,800
6,838,1+00
665,700
603,ij00
1+62,100
1,519,600
21+9.500
36,032,200
$ 80,333,300
The following are leading plants in their respective communities and areas:
Bentoni Benton Industries
(shirts). Otto G. Little & Co. (lumber products); Berwick: *American Car & Foundry Division of ACF Industries (transportation equipment), Clewell's Container Corp., Consolidated Cigar, Vaughn's Bakery, *Wise
Potato Chip Co.; Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg Mills Inc. (weaving), *J. L. Dillon Inc. (Florists, growers and
wholesalers), *Magee Carpet Co., Mi Ico Undergarment Co.; U. S. Radium; Catawi ss» : MaxI Mfg. Co. (high
pressure forged steel pipe unions and check valves). Regal Shirt Co.; Mi Ivi le *Girton Mfg. Co. (dairy
equipment and supp iesi Ml Ivi le Lumber Products, MI Ivi le Plani ng; Orangevi le i Orangevi lie Manufacturing Co. (floor and warehouse trucks). Making use of the county's basic mineral resources:
The
Alliance Clay Products, Mi f f nvi le, uses the rock formation of Bloomsburg red shale for brick and tile.
The
Several companies. Including Bloomsburg Sand k Gravel Co., use deposits of glacial sand and gravel.
Baker Lime Quarry of Lime Ridge utilizes limestone formations. Coal deposits in the southern districts
are still producing, largely by open pit mining.
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BLOOMSBURG STATE COLLEGE AS AN ASSET
IN
THE ECONOMY
i960 Data:
Pay rolls, Instructional staff of 106 received $668,000; the non-instructional employes,
including persons serving with the contract caterer, ll+O, received $1+13,000; total 21+6 employes received
$1,086,000. Capital expenditures attributed to year i960, estimated at $828,800.
The "Tax Anything Law," is the popular designation of
Act 481 of the 1947 General Assembly. By this law the
General Assembly delegated its general taxing powers to
local districts, although with important exceptions to be
noted.
By
this legislation counties,
from such delegations are
receipts of public utilities, prod-
ucts of manufacturing, lumbering, farming,
Authorities
and mining.
—
Institutions called Authorities have been
authorized by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to
townships, boroughs,
towns, school districts, excluding certain classes of districts
not existing in Columbia County, may levy taxes on any
make
class of objects, instrumentalities, services, persons,
the legal limit of
possible forms of capital construction when the borrowing capacity of a political subdivision is at or close to
not
preempted by the Commonwealth. Excluded, however,
its
thorities are created
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borrowing capacity. Municipal auby counties, boroughs, towns and
;
Pictured above are the contour strips on the Frank Kisner farm,
Mt. Pleasant Township, Bloomsburg R.D., taken in the spring of 7 957.
This picture was imprinted on envelopes to accompany the soil and
LAND USE
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IN
ail
1975
Forecast
Survey
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100*-
Best Types Crop Land
29. S*
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&)ASSLANOS
a.
2.3
8,200
a.
151,300
Urban Areas
AaterAreas
Other Uses
5.6 J
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a.
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23.000 «. 7-5 *
3,ooo a. i.»-J
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31.400 «
Idle Etc.
20
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Land use data by courtesy Col. Co. Soil ConservationOffice.
school districts.
Such
and construct
specified
authorities issue bonds, condemn land
improvements: sewage and
dis-
posal plants, park planning areas, bridges, schools or school
facilities,
and
others. Administration
the authority or
it
may
lease
back the
may
be directly by
facility to the creat-
ing governmental subdivision or school district in return
for a rental sufficient to cover expenses and debt service.
If
administered directly by that Authority, financing
on a fee for service
is
basis.
The Pennsylvania Authority is a unique institution. The
Authorities can generally borrow money only on interest
about one-half to one per cent higher than districts
creating them can borrow. There is also a State Public
School Building Authority which the local school district
may choose as the construction agency for a given school
rates
facility, in
which case
Catawissa Municipal, (water and sew-
Millville, municipal water.
mentary school. The existing authorities are: Benton
Area Joint School Authority, the Bloomsburg School
Authority, the Central Area Columbia County Joint
School Authority, the Fishing Creek Valley (Benton
area) Joint School Authority, the Southern Area Columbia County School Authority.
—
this state authority issues the
The Geography of Columbia County Columbia Counnorth and south, extends from the rugged escarpments
of North Mountain to a group of parallel mountain ridges
at the extreme south, Little Mountain, Big Mountain,
and Locust Mountain.
Twelve miles south of North Mountain, jutting up
from the surrounding low lands, is Knob Mountain. This
is really the abrupt termination of a great "V" shaped
mountain extending eastward, the southern arm making
Lee Mountain, the northern arm, Huntington Mountain.
Another ten miles southeasterly brings knob-like Catawissa Mountain, also in form resembling a "V." Its northern arm, after the interruption of the Mainville Gap,
becomes Nescopeck Mountain. The southern arm, after
a broad half circle, becomes Little Mountain and extends
far west beyond the limits of the county. In the open end
between the Nescopeck Mountain and Catawissa Mountain are to be found a hogback mountain, McCauley, and
farther south of it, Buck Mountain. The general trend of
ty,
About 51,000 are potentially grass land, although only
about one-fourth is used for this purpose.
About Li9,000 acres are best suited for trees and grass.
Ll.3>000 acres are potential woodland.
About 300 acres are too stony for any use except wi Id
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lii?,OCO acres in Columbia County are potentially of the
best quality crop land, level or gently sloping
land of
high productivity. Only about three fourths are so utiI
— Berwick Muni-
School Authorities State Public School Authority
helped local districts to build: Millville high school and
elementary school in Pine Township; Hemlock- Montour
Jointure to build the William W. Evans Memorial school
Roaring Creek Valley Jointure to build the Numidia ele-
49*
45*
30,500a.
and Purposes
:
Woodlands
a.
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235,300 a.
17,400
+2,70O
sold from Post Offices
cipal Authority.
posal) parking;
7,qoo
960 and
facility following which lease-back and
debt service provisions are similar to those of the Muni-
Existing Authorities
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cipal providing for the Parking and for sewage disposal;
Bloomsburg, Park, Municipal (for sewage and trash dis-
02. Soo a.
a.
in
over the United Sfafes.
and constructs the
COLUMBIA COUNTY
Area: 4S4 so. mis.: 309.600 acres
112,200
water conservation postage stamp
bonds
these mountains, with exceptions as noted,
is
slightly
north
of east to south of west.
Just west of Berwick, a moderate hill emerges from the
general level, and becomes higher as it extends west, becoming a full scale mountain west of our county. "Turkey
Bloomsburg, is actually part of
formation called Montour ridge.
Hill," north of
(GEOGRAPHY
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85^4.
Farm machinery becomes widespread develop!
Predominately
local
Local
industries producing for
local markets
iron mines support foundries and furnaces
Academies, esp. Blcomsburg
Lit,,
Institute which grows into Normal Schc
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Valley
Roaring Creek Valley
Cntrlia- Cnynghm.
;
location of the county seat near the western border in
Danville, 30 years of agitation led to
its removal to BloomsThis in turn led to further dissatisfaction
until the county of Montour with Danville as the county
burg
seat
in 1848.
was
set
up
in 1850.
Further history of the county is related to the chart on
the preceding two pages. The grouping of districts on this
chart: Berwick: Berwick Boro. River Districts: Briar Creek
Boro., Briar Creek, Mifflin, No. Centre, So. Centre. Scott
Twps.; Bloomsburg: Bloomsburg Town; Lower Fishing
Creek: Hemlock, Montour, Mt. Pleasant Twps.; Upper
Fishing Creek: Benton, Orangeville, Stillwater Boros.. Benton, Fishing Creek, Jackson, Orange, Sugarloaf Twps.
Little Fishing Creek: Millville Boro., Greenwood, Madison.
Pine Twps.; Catawissa: Catawissa Boro. (Earlier part of
Catawissa Valley)
Catawissa Valley: Beaver, Catawissa,
Main Twps.; Roaring Greek Valley: Cleveland. Franklin.
Locust, Roaring Creek Twps. Centralia-Conyngham Cen:
;
Old House, Hemlock Township
:
;
(GEOGRAPHY
Continued from page 9)
tralia Boro.,
Viewed from the side, these mountains for the most
part have a long level profile of a fairly uniform height.
Like
(GEOGRAPHY
Indians,
who
to find
an outlet for the surplus
production, timber and timber products, farm crops and
and the wealth still to be derived from the wildand forest. Land transportation first by pack
horse, then with the coming of turnpikes and bridges, by
horse drawn vehicles was in each case slow and costly. At
stream and river freshet times canoes, then durham boats,
clumsv arks and clumsier rafts, took cargoes, including the
valuable timber of which they were constructed, all combined worth thousands of dollars, to downriver markets,
but at bitter costs in losses of life, cargoes, and boats, from
river hazards. Improvements were demanded. The North
Branch canal started to function for our region in 1832.
and gave our region access far up the branches into New
York and to the Atlantic Ocean ports, excepting during
the winter months. The railroads reached us in 1854, and
livestock,
life
Continued on page 14)
— The powerful Susquehannock
frontier or pioneer communities, the pressing
need was transportation
North Mountain at places reaches 2,300 or 2,400 feet
above sea level; the others mentioned up to 1,700 or 1,800
feet. However, the mountains reach only about 1,000 to
1,500 feet above the valley floor.
A lower group of elevations spread widely between
these mountain ridges. They reach heights of possibly 800
to a thousand feet, but only four to six hundred feet above
the valley floors. Their summits for the most part form
fine rolling hilltop farms, except where streams have
carved deep valleys with steep, sometimes precipitous
sides. The stream bottom lands provide farms as rich as
might be desired.
History
all
Conyngham Twp.
at
one time controlled the entire Susquehanna Valley, had,
by the time of William Penn, succumbed to attacks of
many enemies, white and red, as well as the white man's
diseases. Their Iroquois conquerors, the Five Nations of
the Mohawk Valley, allowed several wandering tribes to
occupy our region. In 1768 by the Treaty of Stanwix the
Iroquois sold a vast area embracing our area of Pennsylvania to the heirs of William Penn. This sale was against
the wishes of the occupying groups, chiefly the Delawares,
and partly explains Indian hostilities to come later.
A few settler without legal authorization, "squatters,"
along with fur traders, had already come into our region.
After this treaty, settlers migrated in considerable numbers. Settlers from Connecticut claiming the Wyoming
Valley region and others from eastern Pennsylvania clashed in armed conflicts with bloodshed. The conflict was
finally settled by Decree of Trenton, 1781. The Revolution also brought Tory-Patriot conflicts to our region accompanied with frontier forays, battles, captures, death,
and destruction at the time of the attacks on Wyoming
Valley to the north. With the end of the Revolution, 1783,
migration surged into our region fostered by a fever of
of stream
after 20 or 30 years their competition challenged the canals,
which
finally
succumbed
in 1900.
And now
the rail-
roads in turn are fighting for their lives in competition
with the newer automotive and air forms of transportation. Transportation improvements made it possible for
our region to exploit its endowments of natural resources.
In addition, local industries producing largely for local
markets were able to find outlets for their surpluses in
the metropolitan regions. Records are meager, but large
amounts of timber must have been boated and rafted
down
the river.
In 1822 iron ore was discovered in the hills north and
west of Bloomsburg. Smelting furnaces sprang up, first
using charcoal derived from forests and then later anthracite coal. Bloomsburg became a great iron town. Two
furnaces and associated industries producing pig iron and
fabricated iron products made Bloomsburg a bustling
manufacturing town with railroad and canal taking out
its products. By 1890 the more accessible ores had been
exhausted and the remnants could not support an industry
in competition with the richer resources from the Lake
land speculation.
Superior region.
Soon the isolated settlers' cabins received neighbors,
farms were cleared and pioneering changed to a more
settled agriculture. In 1772 Northumberland County was
set up including a vast area north and west from Sunbury.
County after county was cut off; Columbia in 1813, with
In the
sport
late
decades of the nineteenth century, Williamcapitol of the world. The opera-
became the lumber
its Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company extended to embrace the untouched forests of the North
Mountain region, north Columbia County extending into
Sullivan. For a brief time until the forests were exhausted
tions of
a name reminiscent of the then popular patriotic song,
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." Dissatisfied with the
(HISTORY
12
Continued next page, column 2)
Local
Government
Columbia County
Units of
With Recent Population Figures
1960 Data from Preliminary Releases of United States Census,
Summer
of 1960
Columbia County has nine
municipalities.
Ranked
ac-
cording to population, they are:
1960
Gain
Population
Population
Loss
14,010
10.633
2,000
1,986
13,336
10,614
1,812
1,427
890
878
348
424
975
954
398
437
189
193
1950
Municipality
Berwick Borough
Bloomsburg. Town
Catawissa Borough
1.
.
2.
3.
Centralia Borough
Benton Borough
Millville Borough
Briar Creek Borough
Orangeville Borough
Stillwater Borough
4.
5.
.
6.
.
.
7.
8.
9.
.
.
The County has twenty-four second class
Ranked according to population they are:
1950
Township
1.
Scott
2.
Briar Creek
3.
Mifflin
4.
5.
Hemlock
Greenwood
6.
South Centre
7.
Conyngham
8.
Locust
Fishing Creek
12. Cleveland
1
2,258
1,546
1,478
3,231
1.876
1.
14.
Benton
Beaver
15.
Mount
16.
Pine
17.
North Centre
18.
Catawissa
19.
Main
20.
Orange
21.
Sugar loaf
13.
1,306
1,251
842
2,009
1,125
1,108
1,182
1,107
801
942
990
952
923
774
687
686
656
904
826
.
747
776
649
674
678
502
552
387
625
456
445
424
Pleasant
.
.
22. Franklin
23.
Roaring Creek
24.
Jackson
.
COUNTY TOTAL
+
13
4-
4
+
4-
now somnolent community of Jamison City
up to its pretentious name of city, with concentrated
lumber and tan bark industries. Our southern townships,
Beaver and Conyngham, but chiefly Conyngham, exploitlived
ed resources in anthracite coal in the late nineteenth century. Those at Beaver are worked but little, if at all. The
973
330
Since the turn of the century with the reduction or
exhaustion of most of our primary resources, the economic
base of the county has come largely to rest on the skill and
—
162
205
55
who have brought indusour county, diversified to a degree, but not sufficiently so. Consult the table on page 8. The efforts of
leaders finally placed in our midst an important institution of higher learning in its dollars and cents impact on
our region as well as in its educational influence, the
Bloomsburg State College.
enterprise of industrial leaders
tries to
901
75
189
10
19
52
60
90
War days were not only a time of prosperity.
sometimes bitter in their denunciations, were opposed to the Lincoln administration. Alleged threats of
resistance resulted in the occupation of the county by
soldiers. Violent or outrageous incidents took place to the
shame of both factions.
Civil
Critics,
7
23
33
651
645
573
71
551
1
440
433
425
392
360
53
192
31
53
64
-
The disturbances in the
name of Molly McGuire's
trials,
310
53,150
1950
1960
Gain
Population
Loss
16,700
—
4-699
Salem Township,* Luzerne
County (Partly in Berwick
School Jointure)
Nescopeck
Borough,*
2,859
3,281
4-422
1,907
1,924
+
17
694
639
-
55
2,051
2,228
4-
177
Luz-
erne County
erne County
Ralpho Township, Northumberland County, part of
Southern Area Columbia
County, School Jointure
County Units
murder
and executions by hanging.
culties.
A study of the Population Chart, pages 10 and 11,
shows remarkably small changes in population numbers
from 1860 to the present. The tendency of the districts
near our larger centers of population, see Table page 1 2,
to increase at the expense of the built-up sections, is especially evident in the river districts and Salem Township,
Luzerne County, adjacent to Berwick, and also in the
townships adjacent to Bloomsburg. Scott Township's gain
is especially marked.
Nescopeck Township,* Luz-
* Luzerne
convictions,
Now in the mid-century decades, economic growth has
been slowed down. Leaders are working to overcome this
situation and are encouraged by the promise of the Keystone Shortway, part of US Interstate Rout 80, which
is to pass directly through the center of the county and
should overcome permanently our transportation diffi-
+
Twenty-Sixth Judicial Dis16,001
anthracite regions under the
in the late 1860's resulted in
violence in the southern end of our county with
Montour County (with Columbia County) forming
trict
Continued from preceding page)
in 1910, the
4-283
-
North Mountain.
Conyngham-Centralia coal measures still are yielding, but
on a reduced scale and largely by open pit mining.
Loss
+
+
+
-
to
+
Gain
53,460
Population
Municipality
(HISTORY
townships.
1960
1.640
1,298
Looking up Coles Creek Valley
50
4-
Population
Montour
Madison
9.
10.
- 674
- 19
- 188
-559
+ 85
+ 76
Population
1,093
+
—
.
.
closely associated with Berwick's trading
and com-
muting area.
13
Approaching Berwick
Policing
— Pennsylvania
takes great pride in
its
State
Catawissa Creek, rising east of Aristes, in the far south,
on the outside of the horse-shoe curve of
Catawissa-Little Mountain. In doing so, it seems also to
prefer the "hard way," cutting its valley through numerous rock formations finally to find its outlet in the river
one of the first such bodies created, and still one of
the best. The Bloomsburg Barracks has Columbia County
as its complete district. It is staffed by one sergeant, one
corporal and eight troopers. In districts without organized
police, the State Police provide policing: enforcement of
traffic and criminal law and the maintenance of peace.
Bloomsburg, all the boroughs excepting Briar Creek and
follows a course
Police,
at Catawissa.
The Roaring Creek
branches, north and south, spend
upper courses differently. The northern branch
drains the rich farming land of Roaring Creek Valley, although some of its sources lie in the horseshoe mountain
rim at the east. The southern branch rising in the deep
and wooded Brush Valley, after yielding of its water to the
impounding dams of the Shamokin Water Company,
cuts brusauely through Little Mountain at Bear Gap.
their
and also the townships of Conyngham and
Montour, have organized police forces. In such districts
the State Police give assistance on request of the head of
Stillwater,
The different forces cooperate closewith each other. The constables have powers of arrest
and serve papers of the justices of the peace.
the local department.
ly
Sealer of Weights
and Measures
—
northern county
and then the
combined streams cuts through bordering hills in rapids
flows north, across the "grain" like
Columbia County's
and Measures in 1960 examined for
accuracy 2,425 scales and measures in the county, of
which 42 were adjusted and 30 condemned. 23.829 packaged commodities were checked, of which 2,200 were
condemned. Recently, prosecutions for fraudulent viola-
counterparts, picks
Sealer of Weights
tions
have been
and
ive
many
North Mountain
From
The
results are that at
almost canyons.
One
scenery of Columbia County provides a wealth of
and rugged
mountain terrain. View the broad expanse of the North
Branch of the Susquehanna as it enters the county at
Berwick with a backdrop of Council Cup (Kanzel Kopf
or pulpit head). At Bloomsburg the broad flood plain
formed by the river and Fishing Creek are rimmed with
the sharp bluffs of River Hill. The river makes its way
beautiful broad vistas, distant landscapes,
streams
some places there are broad,
make narrow
interesting exception to the
southward trend is the steplike pattern of Fishing Creek.
Its south-bound current absorbs Huntington Creek from
through a sharp gorge, the Catawissa Narrows, affording
a view of distant Catawissa Mountain. At the south is
somber Brush Valley; at the north the impressive mass
Knob
can again turn south. Twice again the stream
is deflected to the west when it strikes Turkey Hill below
Lightstreet, and then at the Red Shale cliff's at Bloomsburg, until it merges with the River at the '"Point," between Bloomsburg and Rupert.
Briar Creek, the only other considerable stream on the
"North Side" of the county, similarly cuts through obstructing rock formations to join the river at the com-
Mountain,
hours of delightful tourof the County's history,
—
The
the east at Forks and then flows west until, past
many
Much
Enjoying Our County and Its Scenery
In Columbia
County are to be found these routes: Federal US 11:
State roads, designated Legislative routes numbered in
the 19,000's; County; and Township roads.
gentle valleys, at others the harder rocks
valleys,
full.
standable.
flow south, cutting "across the grain" of hard and soft
layers.
will take
cliffs,
Columbia County scenery a
understood from these basic geographic facts. Its transportation problems and advantages also become under-
streams called rivers,
this area, these
to be called
mineral, agricultural, and timber resources are to be
tributaries, takes its rise in the extens-
region.
gives the
ing to enjoy to the
the previously deserted valley at Danville.
its
and knobs,
wide variety that
Continued from page 12)
many
what used
This combination of streams and meadows, ridges,
The generally east-west trend of mountains and valleys
have been able to control the stream flow only in part.
The Susquehanna river, North Branch, after cutting
through mountains south from Shickshinnv to our east,
flows westward in a channel on softer rock formations for
about twenty miles. Then it abruptly deserts the easy
channel down Dutch Valley in order, it would seem, to
cut through the rocky formations at the south thus forming the Catawissa Narrows. Then in a few miles it cuts
back again through the same difficult formations to reach
along with
waterfalls to join the river at
gaps,
Fishing Creek, larger than
its
the northern branch,
Roaring Creek Station.
rare.
(GEOGRAPHY
up
it
of
North Mountain.
We here outline for you nine circle tours. None is
mentioned that does not have many picturesque views, if
not grand and arresting vistas. If road turnings are missed,
there will still be alternative and rewarding prospects. In
each tour, any point other than the one suggested may be
made
munitv of the same name.
the beginning.
Each
other unexpected delights.
14
trip in reverse direction
Many points of historic
adds
interest
Airplane view of central Berwick.
will also
reward the
ommended
tourist. Advertisers
have
our county with
listed rec-
dining places.
Trip 1. Northeastern tour: In 1807 the Susquehanna
and Tioga Turnpike Company was organized to build a
road north from Berwick to Tioga, continuing the turnpike from Lehigh, constructed in 1787. This route went
north over Lee and Huntington mountains to modern
Jonestown then farther through part of Fishing Creek
Township to Luzerne County's Huntington and Fairmount townships and on northward to Elmira (earlier
called Newton, New York). Take Leg. Rt. 19,040, then
No. 894 over Huntington Mt. to Jonestown and Huntington Creek. Huntington Mountain, Creek, and Township carry the
man and
name
are well distributed over the County.
The Berwick YMCA serves men as well as boys. A program of indoor and athletic games and other activities
are made possible by gymnasium and swimming pool and
of a distinguished Connecticut states-
jurist, signer
of the Declaration of Independ-
Samuel Huntington, and thus
other
important
influence exerted by Connecticut in the settlement of our
ence,
recall the
TOURS
Confined on page 19)
ship,
also
;
;
;
;
;
Zehners, Iola, Roaring Creek Valley, Central, Stillwater,
and
Fernville.
—
Youth Services
The Columbia-Montour Council of
Boy Scouts of America serves Columbia and Montour
Counties generally with Luzerne county neighboring Benton and Berwick, and Riverside, Northumberland County, near Danville. Eight hundred adult leaders aid 2,350
boys in 188 Cub, Scout, and Explorer units. Camp Lavigne in Sugarloaf Township provides the highest standard of camping facilities. The central office at Bloomsburg
serves the three districts of Green Briar, Berwick area,
Fishing Creek, Bloomsburg Area, and Montour, Danville
available to
500 boys and
serves about
girls.
—
—
der requirements similar to the active reserve in the armed
services. The armed services maintain enlistment offices
Bloomsburg, and the National Guard at Berwick and
The Berwick Armory includes the 1068th and
1069th Transportation Companies and the Armory at
Danville, the Howitzer 104th Armored Cavalry. Women
may enlist in the Auxiliary units of each service for periods of two, three, or four years.
at
Danville.
The Selective Service System of the United States is
represented in the County by the local Board No. 50,
made up of five members appointed by the President of
area.
The Columbia County
is
Regular Enlistments
All the armed services
Army,
Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard
accept volunteers within the established quotas. Reserve enlistments in
each of the services are also possible under similar arrangements. The Reserve enlistments require 6 months of
full time basic training followed by a stated time in the
Reserve, usually 3 years. Reserve personnel must give 2
weeks of active duty each year plus 48 training sessions,
approximately 100 hours, each year in the vicinity of the
home region. Enlistments in the National Guard are un-
libraries in the State. Its
Light Street, Millville (2 stations) Numidia (2 stations)
Orangeville Library, Pine Summit, Waller (2 stations)
and
—
unique in having one of 26 traveling
headquarters are at the Bloomsburg Public Library and it provides books and magazines
for 24 stations: (Bendertown, Benton (3 stations)
Briar
Creek, Derrs, Espy (2 stations) Greenwood, Jerseytown,
is
comparable program
a men's dormitory. Fees are moderate.
junior-senior high school youths with paid adult leader-
Berwick, Bloomsburg, and Orangeville. Col-
umbia County
A
is
Approximately 500 enjoy the program.
The Bloomsburg Youth Center, initiated by the Kiwanis Club, provides a broad indoor recreational program for
Library Facilities in Columbia County include free public
libraries in
facilities.
women. There
region.
(SCENIC
central office in Bloomsburg. Five
its
hundred adult leaders aid 1,400 girls in 67 active units.
Camp Creasy near Bloomsburg is used for day camping,
especially for the Brownies, and Camp Louise, on a splendid 180 acre mountain site south of Jonestown, recently
acquired, is in use with further development pending.
In 4-H work, Head, Heart, Hand, and Health, boys
and girls, 10-20, are trained in skills and citizenship. The
Columbia County Program is one of the strongest in the
state. Our 1,000 participants, more or less, frequently win
distinction in district, state, and national contests. Leaders
Council, Girl Scouts, Inc., serves
15
Civil Defense organizes stand-by alerts among neighboring districts or companies in such situations.
Columbia County's
fire protection rests in these 28 volcompanies: Beaver, Benton, Berwick (Defender.
Eagles, Ranger, Reliance, West Branch),
Bloomsburg
(Friendship, Liberty, Rescue, Winona), Buckhorn, Catawissa, Centralia, Espy, Light Street, Lime Ridge, Locust
Dale, Main Township, Mifflin Township, Millville, Montour, North Mountain, Orangeville, Summerhill, Valley
Chemical (Numidia), Wilbuiton: No. 1. Wilburton: No. 2.
unteer
fire
Next time your
Mountain view.
in order that
the United States.
The
at the risk of
headed by the Clerk chosen by the State Director of the Selective Service under
office
to all parts of the county.
life
and property,
to help
it
generously.
from
eligible
lists.
service available
types of organizations are
Berwick and Bloomsburg members join the
fee. The pooled resources make
possible the purchase of ambulances and equipment.
Emergency calls to members are covered on a fee per call
basis. In the other type, of which Catawissa is an example,
a sponsoring organization, the Lions Club in this case,
raises funds and secures the equipment. Emergency calls
are then on a fee per call basis for all.
organization for a modest
The Board
400 annually.
Ambulance
— The Berwick United Fund
Two
in effect. In
determines eligibility according to established rules. The
Clerk carries out the decisions. The office registers about
United Funds
members, be sure
its
money
tries to raise
better protect your
— Organizations make such
Ambulance
places, currently Berwick High School; John May's residence, Centralia; and Catawissa High School. Quotas
assigned to Columbia County are filled according to date
first,
company
local fire
may
is
Federal Civil Service regulations. Male youths within five
days after their eighteenth birthday must register in the
Clerk's office in the Court House, or at other designated
of birth, the oldest
it
organizations:
burg, Catawissa,
area includes
Benton, Berwick, Blooms-
Conyngham and
Millville.
Centralia
and Mt. Carmel. Your chamber of commerce, nearest hospital, or town
or borough police department, will aid you with detailed
have
Columbia County west as far as Ft. Jenkins Road, Mifflin
Township, Nescopeck, Nescopeck rural routes, Wapwallopen, and most of Salem Township, Luzerne County.
The Columbia County United Fund includes the rest of
Columbia County excepting, also, Conyngham-Centralia
facilities
available in nearby Ashland
information.
—
Red Cross
Two Red Cross Chapters, Berwick and
Bloomsburg, function for most of Columbia County. The
National Red Cross, operating under Federal Charter, is
a voluntary organization of wide popular support. It
districts.
General Hospitals are located
at both Berwick and
Bloomsburg. Each serve their respective municipalities as
well as neighboring communities. At Danville is the Gei-
charters the local chapters.
come under
Conyngham and
Centralia
the entire region the
Carmel chapter. Berwick
covers neighboring parts of Luzerne County.
In all natural disasters and emergencies, the Red Cross
takes the initiative in organizing relief and aid. There is
cal services to
a high degree of cooperation with the Civil Defense.
singer
Memorial Hospital. Besides serving
as
a general
hospital for the Danville area, this institution provides for
more specialized surgical and medibe found usually only in large metropolitan
centers. All three hospitals are in the process of enlarge-
the Shamokin-Mt.
Personnel are trained in
ment. Berwick will add 54 to its present 92 beds and the
Geisinger 100 to its present 307 beds, plus a thirteen room
operating suite and additional facilities. There will be a
substantial but as yet undetermined addition to the 99
beds at Bloomsburg.
life
saving,
and
All chapters collect
Bank, which
is
first aid, in
is
and process blood
at Wilkes-Barre. "Priority
ceive aid
from
may, and most do,
One" means 90%
on
call of the chief.
The
fire
chief
is
elected by
First aid
A
The com-
members of the
and companies,
fire
and then
civilian
and
lost
children facilities are provided at most
gatherings.
primary responsibility of the chapters
is
to render
service by counselling to persons in emergencies.
The Junior Red
panies, including the fire police, have a military type
organization with a chain of command under the fire
chief.
more of
special donors.
equipment, and supplies. Besides fire personnel, each
company has a unit of fire police for the purpose of protecting property and directing traffic, sworn in for these
purposes by proper authorities. Fire police are subject, in
fighting
or
needs will be met to the extent possible, after which requests will be channelled through the local chapter for
re-
their political districts respectively: hous-
fire
Blood
hospitals will be met. In lower priorities civilian hospitals'
ing,
addition, to
for the
the quota has been secured. In this priority the needs of
provided for the County by 28 volun-
teer chartered fire companies. All
nursing, in
located at a central place, for our region,
military hospitals, veterans hospitals,
Fire Protection
home
to give instruction in such activities.
Cross program enlists the aid of school
children through modest contributions in building
up
funds for children in disaster situations, U.S. or foreign,
school supplies and library books. The Junior Red Cross
has a program for international student exchanges of
scrap books, music albums, and art albums.
College students aid blood donor recruitment.
de-
partment. By custom, all districts
including those outside the county, will aid in emergencies be-
yond the capacity of an individual company or district.
Calls for help go through the local chief for approval. The
16
;
The Columbia County Unit of Civil Defense is in the
Eastern Area of Pennsylvania, part of a nationwide Civil
Defense Organization. The Board of County Commissionby act of the State Legislature with
supporting Federal legislation, is responsible for Civil Defense in each county. This Board appoints, subject to the
as authorized
ers,
Governor's approval, a County Director. He in turn appoints a director for each political subdivision. Their
functions include safeguarding lives and protecting property in all types of disasters, with special emphasis on
and resources provided A county-wide radio
communication system is operated from Berwick and
Bloommsburg as centers. Two hundred trained men as
auxiliary civil police are on call. RACES, an organization of licensed amateur radio operators, are alert to
supply communication in case of breakdown of other
Services
:
channels. First aid training has been given to over 200
women
persons with over 150 young
trained for
home
matching funds are joined
with those of the State and County to cover certain exnursing. In general, Federal
The
penses, especially equipment.
services are entirely
all
all
Aid resources include
:
One
complete
types of bandages, compresses,
types of antiseptics
and
and
first
aid unit
sanitary cups
antibiotics regularly replaced
emergency hosBloomsburg, one in Berwick, equipped
completely for prompt operation; medical and surgical
equipment; antiseptics and antibiotics with potency maintained by continuous replacement, and standby electric
generators. "The doctor won't even need to bring his
to avoid potency decline; four 200-bed
pital units, three in
stethescope.")
Municipal Directories, which are frequently revised, are
and greater Bloomsburg
areas. Rural routes are included. Berwick, in addition,
includes Salem Township and Nescopeck, while Catawissa is covered by the Bloomsburg volume.
available for the greater Berwick
.
Missionary,
authorship of primers for illiterate adults in over 165
languages, bringing literacy to millions by the plan of
''each
one teach one."
Dr. John Edwin Bakeless, 1894Army, res., ret., University teacher,
.
Colonel, United
journalist, author,
editor, in fields of literature, history, biography,
ics,
econom-
public affairs.
Chambers
Commerce
of
area; the one for
in addition to
— The
greater Berwick area
and shopping
Bloomsburg, Catawissa and RD areas
Bloomsburg; Orangeville.
a translation of the Indian name. Catawissa borough, at
first Hughesburg, from settler who laid out town, super-
seded by Indian name. The weight of evidence is that
this name is derived from several Indian dialects always
meaning "pure water." Stream and township also so
named. Fishing Creek, stream and township, translation
of Delaware Indian name, Namescesepong. RoaringCreek, stream and township, mentioned in very early recpresumed to be translation of the Indian Popeme-
Moses VanCampen,
scout
and
frontier leader of rang-
Revolution.
State Senator,
1861; United States Minister to Ecuador,
1858-
1861-1863;
United States Senator, 1863-1869.
William Hartman Woodin, 1868-1934. Prominent
manufacturer at Berwick; Secretary of Treasury under
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dr. George
Edward Pfahler,
internationally as the pioneer
named
1874-1957. Recognized
and leader
in
radium
ther-
internationally as one of the world's five
pioneers in radiology.
17
Espy, from Josiah Espy; Eyersgrove, from Jacob Eyer;
Jerseytown, settlers from New Jersey; Orange township
and Orangeville from settlers from Orange County, New
York, and Orange, New Jersey (there is no Orange CounRohrsburg, from Frederick Rohr, a Prussian
ty, N.J.)
veteran of the Napoleonic Wars.
;
Famous Persons
— Presidents Cleveland, Jackson, and
Madison townships. Others: Benton borough and towntownship, Senator Thomas Hart Benton; Conyngham
ship, from President Judge John Nesbit Conyngham;
Huntington creek and mountain from Samuel Huntington (see Scenic Tour 1, p. 15) Jamison City from Colonel
township, from Governor Thomas Mifflin Franklin townprinter,
ship, from famous statesman, scientist, author and
;
;
Benjamin Franklin.
— Greenwood,
Mt. Pleasant townships and
Stillwater borough.
—
Hemlock townReminiscent of Timber Resources
and stream and Pine Summit, Pine Creek and Town-
ship
River rounding
guarding the Susquehanna frontiers during the
Charles Rollin Buckalew,
tung.
ship.
Columbia Countians Who Have Gained
More Than Local Distinction
er forces
Some of Columbia County's Names: Indian Names Briar Creek, stream, township, and borough. This form,
or Green Briar, appears in earliest records suggesting it is
Scenery
includes, in general, the Berwick industry
apy;
1884-
ords,
voluntary.
with
Frank Charles Laubach,
atomic attack.
perils of
First
Dr.
educator, preacher. Missionary activities include the co-
bend
of
mouth
of Fishing Creek.
The Columbia County Board of Assistance
made up
is
of seven unpaid laymen, appointed by the Governor under
Pennsylvania law. It prepares estimates which are reported for approval to the State Secretary of Public Welfare.
The Board
appoints, under Civil Service regulations,
a Director to administer the program.
"
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--/.--
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He
dispenses relief
following Board decisions and in compliance with Stat:
law. Relief
is
dispensed from State funds matched in some
cases with Federal funds in the following classes:
1.
Old Age Assistance
to
needy Pennsylvania residents
over 65.
River entering Catawissa
Narrows
at Rupert.
—
Pennsylvania State Highway Commission
Columbia
County is a part of Highway Engineering District No. 31,
with headquarters at Montoursville.
The headquarters
in
Bloomsburg is for maintenance and snow removal on the
553 miles of state highways in our County. Minor construction on these roads, including bridges, is performed
in the slack summer months. The work force of 120 laborers, headed by a local superintendent, is aided by a staff
of three assistants and an office force of five. When a road
is adopted by an act of legislature, it is given a number
and comes under the jurisdiction of this department.
2.
Pensions to those with major or total blindness.
3.
Aid
ents
dependent children lacking one or both parfrom divorce, death, or other cause.
4.
Aid
to those totally,
5.
General assistance to needy unemployed employ-
to
ables
and
Department of Forests and Waters,
District,
No.
20,
of Pennsylvania,
embraces Columbia, Montour,
and Northumberland Counties, along with the Western
Section of Luzerne and the Muncy Valley section of Lycoming. The District Office is in Bloomsburg and is headed by a District Forester. Services: Fire protection, 10
towers, those of Catawissa
ty;
and
Aristes in
fire
Columbia Coun-
administers state forest lands, none in Columbia; ad-
ministers State Parks,
Luzerne, and Dry
nearby.
none
in
Run and
The Waters
Division
Columbia but Ricketts Glen,
World's End, Sullivan, are
is
centered at Harrisburg.
The Columbia County Child Welfare Services are headed by an Acting Director chosen by the County Commissioners on recommendations of the State Secretary of
Welfare under Civil Service regulations.
The Acting
pointed
tey
is assisted by two case workers apCounty Commissioners on recommenda-
Director
the
tions of the Acting Director.
The Acting
Director
is
as-
by an advisory board appointed by the County
Commissioners after nomination by a nominating comsisted
mittee of the Board.
The
services rendered:
(1)
Place-
ment
of children in foster homes. (2) Protective services
to children in sub-standard home conditions. (3) Services
to unmarried mothers. (4) Child adoption services. (5)
Institutional placements for retarded, delinquent, and
handicapped children. Board, medical, and dental care,
and also clothes may be supplied. Financing is from the
County Institution District with State reimbursement.
The State pays salary of the Acting Director, and the
Institution District pays the caseworker with
reimbursement.
18
50%
State
their families.
The County' main
The Bloomsburg
is in Bloomsburg with
and Centralia.
office
cation offices in Berwick
appli-
Columbia County
and Mechanical Association,
century and more of life, has come to be one of the
Fair, officially the
Agricultural, Horticultural,
in
its
greatest fairs in the State.
During the annual Fair Week, beginning
in the last
days of September, a quarter of a million people are in
attendance. Exhibits appropriate to the
well as school
Wyoming
permanently disabled.
and hobby
interests,
official
name,
as
reach uniformly high
standards. Races attract those of sporting interest and a
wide spectrum of entertainment is always topped with
outstanding talent at the evening shows.
Roaring Creek Rapids and falls
The Columbia County Work Unit of the
servation Service
is
U.S. Soil Conheaded by a Work Unit Conserva-
appointed by the Pennsylvania State Conservation
tionist
Service under Civil Service regulations.
established in 1950
and
is
The
office
was
located in the Court House.
The office provides technical and engineering assistance
for members of the Columbia County Soil Conservation
This service:
District.
2)
assists district
trict in
1)
members
supplies county soil surveys;
of the Soil Conservation Dis-
developing long range conservation of land resour-
ces appropriate to the soil characteristics along with fac-
View
in
Fishing Creek Township.
and drainage; 3) assists farmer members in
the establishment and carrying through of such plans.
tors of slope
(SCENIC TOURS Continued from page 15)
North from Jonestown via 19,069, or a variety of other
interesting roads, including those in neighboring Luzerne
County, to Red Rock, Luzerne County.
Side trips may be made to magnificent Ricketts Glen
State Park; n. to Central and Jamison City; route 16, Elk
Grove, Nordmont, LaPorte and to state park at World's
End, Sullivan County.
The Columbia County Conservation District has 750
members out of the 1,510 farmers eligible. The members'
farms combined make up 67,500 acres, or about 50% of
the available acreage. National figures show that in every
:
year since 1945 the gross income of conservation farmers
has increased, whereas the income of conventional farmers
reached a peak in 1951 and has decreased ever since. In
1945
4%
of the farmers in this county
had
basic conserva-
1954 the number had risen to 25%. These
farmers in the 25% produced 45% of our gross agrition plans; in
HOTEL MAGEE — Beautifully
with television and
decorated rooms
Children
Columbia County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Office is set up under the United States Department of Agriculture and is located in Bloomsburg. It
free.
Continuing,
tracing the valley of Fishing Creek; Ben-
s.
where stands a Theodore Burr
covered bridge, Columbia County's memorial to covered
bridges; Forks; Orangeville; Knob Mountain; Light
ton; thence to Stillwater,
which
Street,
near
is
site
olutionary fort; across
tour Ridge
and
;
cliffs
and
of red rocks, the Bloomsburg red
swimming
pool, skating area; intersection with Rt.
n.,
with alternative (a)
which takes you past the old limestone quarries,
some still active, or (b) old Berwick road through villages
reminiscent of old canal days, Espy; Almedia Lime Ridge,
site of Revolutionary Fort Jenkins; Briar Creek; and
Rt.
encourages programs for agricultural conservation by promoting good practices and administers the conservation
reserve (soil bank) with the production adjustments as to
wheat allotments on permitted acreages.
Established farmers in the County compose the Conservation Committee, which in turn chooses, under Federal
Civil Service rules, the Office Manager. He also reports
to the Farmers' Field Man in the United States Depart-
ment
of Agriculture.
turn
;
War Monument; down Market
this road past Bloomsburg Town
242 at river bridge and airport;
US
Mon-
Civil
Street to river, left at
Park,
Hill, actually part of
into Bloomsburg, county seat with courthouse
at fountain
s.
Rev-
of Fort Wheeler, a frontier
Turkey
location of extensive nineteenth century
iron mining; past
shale
cultural output.
air-conditioning.
1 1
;
Berwick.
Agricultural
Office.
different in
every way.
.
paid by the County Commissioners. The Fundamental
function of the office is to bring the findings of research to
the farms and home. Advice is made available on livestock
farm and garden
and health.
culture,
home management,
.
will find hospitality,
.
.
.
Trip 2. North Central area: Alternative trips are (a)
Bloomsburg Main Street at Iron, turn n. on 42 then
—
after crossing creek Leg. Rt. 19,029 to
Greenwood Valley
Route 254, this route e. to Rohrsburg, or (b) Bloomsburg to Orangeville on 339, then follow signs to Rohrsto
burg; n. to junction of Leg. Rt. 19,060; Waller; turn left,
Leg. Rt. 19,061 down Little Fishing Creek Valley through
(Continued on next page)
19
The
Home
nutrition,
charm and convenience
inexpensively. You will be agreeably surprised how homelike a hotel can be.
Here you
and
the Pennsylvania State University. Office expenses are
feeding,
HOTEL BERWICK — So
and Home Economics Extension
Economics Extension Service
maintains an office for the County in Bloomsburg with a
staff of five, headed by the County Agricultural Agent
and the Home Extension Economist. All are employees of
Agricultural
View from Montour Ridge, looking up Susquehanna
River.
Surrounding areas are also included. Reproduced from Army Map Service
than
Maps. Used with permission. Boundaries of Columbia County, other
SUPERIMPOSED.
LINES
INK
STREAMS, HAVE BEEN EMPHASIZED BY ADDITIONAL
.
.
North Mountain
CONTENTS
Geography
of
Summary
9
Columbia County
Scenic Tours of
Agricultural and
Home
Economics
19
Extension Office
Agricultural Stabilization
Ambulance
Armed
Services
and Conservation 19
— regular enlistments
in
.
15
Municipal Directories
17
Highway Commission
Pennsylvania State
Policing
15
Political
-
.
18
Part
7
8
Real Estate Assessments
17
9
Red Cross
16
Bloomsburg Fair
Board of Assistance
18
Scenery, Enjoying
18
School Enrollments
17
Sealer of Weights
18
Sightseeing Tours
2
Soil Conservation,
Chambers
The Pennsylvania
Commerce
of
Child Welfare Services
Cities, Classes of
Civil
Defense
17
Bloomsburg State
Columbia County Names
Columbia Countians of Distinction
College,
Department
Fire
and Waters
and Waters, Department
Geography of Columbia County
Forests
Historical Society
Highway Commission
of
— Pennsylvania
Hospitals,
Historical Society
torical society
Society holds meetings in
Columbia County
Unit for
19
2
3
3
4
4
18
9
Voter Qualifications, Pennsylvania
Weights and Measures, Sealer of
13
Economy
2
Youth
15
Population Growth, 1840-1960
Further Reading and References
Acknowledgments
21
Land Use
21
Population by Political Divisions, 1950 and
Picture Credits
21
21
active his-
parts of the county.
These deal with interesting topics of the recent as well as
the more remote past. This, our current, effort, the Columbia County Guide, demonstrates the interest of the
Statistical Tables
Population Growth,. Columbia- County
5
.
10-11
5
16
TABLES
21
Services
library in Bloomsburg.
all
Columbia County Government
Borough Government in Pennsylvania
Township Government
Bloomsburg Town Government
Local Administration of Government
Columbia County Schools, Chart with
Veterans' Affairs
''Tax Anything"
— Columbia County has an
museum and
14
6
GRAPHIC CHARTS
16
16
with
and Measures
5
14
,
18
1
General
14
Districts
2
State 18
Historical Society
Our County
and Adjoining
Columbia County
8
2
of Forests
Inside front cover
Political Subdivision of
Law
17
Protection
Map, Columbia County Region
Townships, Classes of
Trolley Cars
Union School District
United Funds
5
17
Counties, Classes of
MAPS
Relief
14
Existing Authorities
Authorities,
The
14
Columbia County ....
Library Facilities
16
12
of County's History
7
Columbia County Taxes
of Pennsylvania
in
Columbia County
1960
Society in the present-day welfare of the county.
7
8
10-11
9
13
Knowl-
edge and understanding of the struggles and efforts embodied in our region's history, recent as well as remote,
are a necessary foundation for civic loyalty and devotion,
as well as
Berwick Hospital
community
building.
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Arthur S. Clay Map, igio, Revised and
published i960 by Columbia County Historical 'Society. For additional copies
address the Society
5
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KEY
TO
COLUMBIA
C<?
APJOINING COUNTIES
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TOWN5HIP5
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Colombia County Court Room
Pennsylvania Voter Qualifications
Persons 21 years
of age of Pennsylvania birth, ipso facto citizens of United
and Pennsylvania. Residence qualifications: If
into the district
from another Pennsylvania
district, 2 mos. from outside the State, 1 yr., except native
States
—
moving
even numbered years of one committee man and one
committee woman from each district, to hold office for
2 years, and to have charge of its party organization in the
born Pennsylvanians returning to the State, 6 mos.
Local and municipal elections in Pennsylvania are
scheduled for years without Presidential or Congressional
elections,
i.e.,
in the
odd numbered
years.
—
Political Party
To qualify as a recognized Political
Party in a county, one of its candidates in the next preceding election must have polled at least 5% of the votes
any elected candidate. Only the Democratic and
Republican parties qualify as such in Columbia County.
Pennsylvania law recognizes a political party's political
committee elected according to the rules of such party.
The rules of both Democratic and Republican parties
provide for the election at the spring primary election in
cast for
A county committee includes all the
committee members plus the state committeeman,
respective districts.
;
district
who
has also been elected by party vote at the same pri-
mary.
The county committee
holds
its
in the case of
Biennial Meeting in even
each party
numbered
years at
which meeting officers are chosen (chairman, vice-chairman) and other matters cared for.
Each party has an executive committee chosen according to its own rules. Each party must file its rules with
the County Board of Elections. The rules then become a
public document.
At the close of registration, September 19, 1960, registered voters included: 15,666 Democrats; 11,905 Republicans, 13 Prohibitionists, 256 non-partisan, and 8 inde,
pendents.
COUNTY
TAXES
A
C
L U M B
Taxes Levied by Columbia County Taxing Bodies for the Yeap
X
Benton
Berwick
Briar Creak
Catawi ssa
Centra ia
12, 190
76,l*7l*.85* 1*2.20#
7.50
13,350
39.059.70
27.37
10.50
12.50
15.00
10.00
6,738
1*3.273.19
1*5.36
3,1*70
13.683.60
31.31
6,973.08
36.13
55.09
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Sti llwater
B loomsburg
( Town
I
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a m. CLASS
Beaver
Benton
Briar Creek
Catawissa
Centre, N
Centre, S
Cleveland
Conyngham
Fishing Cr.
Frank lin
Greenwood
Hemlock
Jackson
Locust
Madi son
Main
Mifflin
Montour
Mt. Pleasant
Orange
10.5
21
31
15
26.5
472,010
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22
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20
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1,1 15,1 10
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36, 09^ 27.81
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50
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lb.7i*9
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675,ol*?
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1*5, 22E 1*0.82
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10,21*5
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59,390
650.77
73.03
57.33
1,1*53.86
172.20
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20.00
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151.01
55,1*13.82
221.66
293.28
73,318.68
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150.59
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166.19
729
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23.72
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29.27
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1*93.830
363,*»b3.55
1*5,050.00
169. 81*
1*75.12
1*39.28
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1.01*6
18,080
37
1,185,580
1,138,750
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1*11
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37.5
29
35.5
31.5
32.5
36.8
27
31.5
26.1
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31*.1|20
6 C ,070
1
162,692.72
18,256.50
199.92
223.36
1**1*. 08
275.36
520.56
312.92
5.00
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363 5.00
690 5.00
1.57 5.00
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515 5.00
251* 3.00
36.71*
59.51*
21.60
27 S5 C 25.16
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25.5
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61*5.57
51*,260
39.
9, 161*. 00
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21*e.72
31,090
32,780
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27,920
21*,
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890
10
lltL.38
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217.76
18,
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20,51*0
92.96
1*79
69. 0l*
37,535.11*
ll*, 10 1.96
150.11*
00
322
857 2.00
56.1*0
72.71*
5l*8
18, I81*.00
25 1,300.00
1,007.20
233
353
233
325
37
181.08
932.1*19-86
IO0.57
3,729.67
1,360
220.1*0
300.00
1.20
355
1*7,61*1*. 12
161,.
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23.2U0.nc
17,259.00
53.M
10.00
10. CO
12.50
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10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
12.00
15.00
15.00
10.00
1.00
15.00
10.00
10.00
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12.50
15.00
10.00
15.00
10.00
10.00
I
8.1*1*5
1,930
2,663
1,650
90,615
6,165
6,1*80
15,690
1*,225
5,1*1*!
767,1*88.00
I7.0B8.8I
581*,
772. 61*
22, 355. 1*6
27,1*09.78
62,139.31*
15,21*6.95
21.757.69
6,900
6,855
8,70b
7,725
3,810
1*2,765.91*
190
1*7,61*2.1*0
10,935
3,510
1*7,636.1*7
25,127.56
511,1*68.56
57.55'
1*2.91*
32.58
39.90
33.12
26.61
33.73
38.01
32.1*6
1*9.16
13,921.91*
35.81
39.32
38.08
36.70
38.67
38,590.30
3l*.86
1*,330
37,1*60.36
20,983.1*0
39.35
38.08
10,281*
1
1
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9,900
7,185
33,01.9.93
16,709.50
1*5,336.1*2
27.61*
8,220
li9,036.1*8
1*9.53
l*,o63
19,890.86
3D. 3?
3,1*9
20,326.08
19,357.76
1*7.33
29.71*
5,295
3,1*95
ll*,l*3l*.9l*
36.82
27,900
5,325
137,372.75
13.220.60
1*2.52
1*2.08
Total oh Summary, where applicabue
1*08,873 2,1*52,335.50 1*6.11,
50,206,235
2,1*68,095 19, 71*1*. 76 S,l*20, 596.23 25,831.17 31,338
Supplementary explanations and notes:
This table is based on tax duplicates or advance esti mates of i960 taxes.
Actua co ect on according to experience closely anrrox imate advance estimates. Data were secured from offici
sources and from a Pennsylvania Economy Leaque Report, I96C.
Co umn B7
"Tax duplicate" in this and other columns, by local usaae, means the tax rolls of taxes levi ed.
Column E|. "Taxables" means adult taxpayers.
Columns headed, "Per capita tax", E , E3. E^, is a special usage designating a tax of a set amount on each ndi vi dua taxpayer , or "Taxab le."
2
"Per capita" as used in Columns Bg and F
and means the burden of the given tax, or taxes, if distributed
2 is according to the dictionary def
pqualty on every man, woman, and child, to be distinguished from per capita taxes noted above.
Column F ,
*Thls Berwick total has been increased by a special occupation tax of $10. CO levied
The approxi960 on all income earning occupations.
imately {56,891 collected from Borough taxpayers of this occupation ta:
rcreases
hen added to the total of these other four taxes in this tabulation,
the total from $7 10,593.53 to $767,1188. 00.
#This Catawissa total has been increased by a special wage tax in i960 of .QC5. As in the case of Berwick, the approximately $18,501 collected
Catawi ssa. when added to the total of these other four taxes In this tabulation. Increases the total from 857,973.97 to $76,1,74. 85I
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CASH RECEIPTS FROM COLUMBIA COUNTY FARMS,
Food Crops
&
Vegetables
Frutts
COLUMBIA
OF
COUNTY
I958
Horticultural Forest
Specialties Products
Dairy
Products
Other
Livestock
Products
Poultry
Total
& Poultry
all
Products Commodi
t
Government
Payments
Total Cash
Receipts
ies
$1,913,000 $195,000 $957,000
$1+0,000 $2,888,000 $1,1+13,000 $3,675.ooo $11,081,000 $312,000
$11,393,000
There were an estimated ,600 farm families. Using these figures yields an average of $6,925 per farm family
without government payments, $7,120 per farm family with government payments, gross figures in each case. (Derived from Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service, Annual Summary, I959.)
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ESTIMATED ANNUAL GROWTH ON COMMERCIAL FOREST LAND. (In thousands of board feet, except as Indicated.)
Hardwoods Softwoods
Annual Value Surplus Growth
over Cut
Annual Estimated at
or Deficit
$15.00 M
Cut
Totals
Net Surplus
,6.12
,660
12,825
-9.553
3.272
$192,375
5.26b
26,91
78,900
36,W>1+
1+1,721+
3,768
37.956
The annual cut of Saw Timber, 12,825 M, plus Pole Timber, 5,260 M, gives 18,080 M, which conservatively estimated at $15 per M gives an estimated $271,200 In value. (Derived from Pennsylvania
Statistical Abstract, I960, pp. 1+0-1+1.)
Saw Timber
Pole Timber
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Plants producing coal, sand, gravel, clays, and peat, had a value of production estimated at
(Derived from Mineral Statistics of
$6,186,000 in 1956, latest date for which figures available.
Pennsylvania, Department of Internal Affairs, April, 1959. P» 5-)
MANUFACTURING PLANTS IN COLUMBIA COUNTY
Wages
Employes
No. of
Capital
Plants Expenditures
during 1959
2ET
Food and kindred products
Textl le mi
products
Apparel and related products
Lumber and wood products
Printing and publishing
Stone, clay, & glass products
Fabricated metal products
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3,227
17
173,700
1,8)42
93,100
156
109
' 5,977,000
12,302,300
Value of
Value added
by
Production and
Related Activities Manufacture
$
27,905,300
1+9,713,500
826, 300
1+12,100
1+36,700
8
6,1+00
66
7
231
236,200
1,098,600
1+1
15I+.I1OO
13
106,500
8,900
1,636,800
3,550
18,287,200
12,676,700
1,359,800
881,800
706,900
3,653,900
583,000
89.501+, 300
107
$3,720,1+00
10,659 $1+3,730,800
$186,985,200
1+
Total manufacturing Industries
.1+37
909,600
3
Machinery, except electrical
All other industries
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Sa laries
1
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1+,
T
I2,1j75,600
21,1+86,800
6,838,1+00
665,700
603,ij00
1+62,100
1,519,600
21+9.500
36,032,200
$ 80,333,300
The following are leading plants in their respective communities and areas:
Bentoni Benton Industries
(shirts). Otto G. Little & Co. (lumber products); Berwick: *American Car & Foundry Division of ACF Industries (transportation equipment), Clewell's Container Corp., Consolidated Cigar, Vaughn's Bakery, *Wise
Potato Chip Co.; Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg Mills Inc. (weaving), *J. L. Dillon Inc. (Florists, growers and
wholesalers), *Magee Carpet Co., Mi Ico Undergarment Co.; U. S. Radium; Catawi ss» : MaxI Mfg. Co. (high
pressure forged steel pipe unions and check valves). Regal Shirt Co.; Mi Ivi le *Girton Mfg. Co. (dairy
equipment and supp iesi Ml Ivi le Lumber Products, MI Ivi le Plani ng; Orangevi le i Orangevi lie Manufacturing Co. (floor and warehouse trucks). Making use of the county's basic mineral resources:
The
Alliance Clay Products, Mi f f nvi le, uses the rock formation of Bloomsburg red shale for brick and tile.
The
Several companies. Including Bloomsburg Sand k Gravel Co., use deposits of glacial sand and gravel.
Baker Lime Quarry of Lime Ridge utilizes limestone formations. Coal deposits in the southern districts
are still producing, largely by open pit mining.
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BLOOMSBURG STATE COLLEGE AS AN ASSET
IN
THE ECONOMY
i960 Data:
Pay rolls, Instructional staff of 106 received $668,000; the non-instructional employes,
including persons serving with the contract caterer, ll+O, received $1+13,000; total 21+6 employes received
$1,086,000. Capital expenditures attributed to year i960, estimated at $828,800.
The "Tax Anything Law," is the popular designation of
Act 481 of the 1947 General Assembly. By this law the
General Assembly delegated its general taxing powers to
local districts, although with important exceptions to be
noted.
By
this legislation counties,
from such delegations are
receipts of public utilities, prod-
ucts of manufacturing, lumbering, farming,
Authorities
and mining.
—
Institutions called Authorities have been
authorized by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to
townships, boroughs,
towns, school districts, excluding certain classes of districts
not existing in Columbia County, may levy taxes on any
make
class of objects, instrumentalities, services, persons,
the legal limit of
possible forms of capital construction when the borrowing capacity of a political subdivision is at or close to
not
preempted by the Commonwealth. Excluded, however,
its
thorities are created
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borrowing capacity. Municipal auby counties, boroughs, towns and
;
Pictured above are the contour strips on the Frank Kisner farm,
Mt. Pleasant Township, Bloomsburg R.D., taken in the spring of 7 957.
This picture was imprinted on envelopes to accompany the soil and
LAND USE
iSS 60
IN
ail
1975
Forecast
Survey
-100*
100*-
Best Types Crop Land
29. S*
c
&)ASSLANOS
a.
2.3
8,200
a.
151,300
Urban Areas
AaterAreas
Other Uses
5.6 J
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a.
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g.Si
Rds,
a.
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23.000 «. 7-5 *
3,ooo a. i.»-J
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31.400 «
Idle Etc.
20
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e
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Land use data by courtesy Col. Co. Soil ConservationOffice.
school districts.
Such
and construct
specified
authorities issue bonds, condemn land
improvements: sewage and
dis-
posal plants, park planning areas, bridges, schools or school
facilities,
and
others. Administration
the authority or
it
may
lease
back the
may
be directly by
facility to the creat-
ing governmental subdivision or school district in return
for a rental sufficient to cover expenses and debt service.
If
administered directly by that Authority, financing
on a fee for service
is
basis.
The Pennsylvania Authority is a unique institution. The
Authorities can generally borrow money only on interest
about one-half to one per cent higher than districts
creating them can borrow. There is also a State Public
School Building Authority which the local school district
may choose as the construction agency for a given school
rates
facility, in
which case
Catawissa Municipal, (water and sew-
Millville, municipal water.
mentary school. The existing authorities are: Benton
Area Joint School Authority, the Bloomsburg School
Authority, the Central Area Columbia County Joint
School Authority, the Fishing Creek Valley (Benton
area) Joint School Authority, the Southern Area Columbia County School Authority.
—
this state authority issues the
The Geography of Columbia County Columbia Counnorth and south, extends from the rugged escarpments
of North Mountain to a group of parallel mountain ridges
at the extreme south, Little Mountain, Big Mountain,
and Locust Mountain.
Twelve miles south of North Mountain, jutting up
from the surrounding low lands, is Knob Mountain. This
is really the abrupt termination of a great "V" shaped
mountain extending eastward, the southern arm making
Lee Mountain, the northern arm, Huntington Mountain.
Another ten miles southeasterly brings knob-like Catawissa Mountain, also in form resembling a "V." Its northern arm, after the interruption of the Mainville Gap,
becomes Nescopeck Mountain. The southern arm, after
a broad half circle, becomes Little Mountain and extends
far west beyond the limits of the county. In the open end
between the Nescopeck Mountain and Catawissa Mountain are to be found a hogback mountain, McCauley, and
farther south of it, Buck Mountain. The general trend of
ty,
About 51,000 are potentially grass land, although only
about one-fourth is used for this purpose.
About Li9,000 acres are best suited for trees and grass.
Ll.3>000 acres are potential woodland.
About 300 acres are too stony for any use except wi Id
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lii?,OCO acres in Columbia County are potentially of the
best quality crop land, level or gently sloping
land of
high productivity. Only about three fourths are so utiI
— Berwick Muni-
School Authorities State Public School Authority
helped local districts to build: Millville high school and
elementary school in Pine Township; Hemlock- Montour
Jointure to build the William W. Evans Memorial school
Roaring Creek Valley Jointure to build the Numidia ele-
49*
45*
30,500a.
and Purposes
:
Woodlands
a.
2
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235,300 a.
17,400
+2,70O
sold from Post Offices
cipal Authority.
posal) parking;
7,qoo
960 and
facility following which lease-back and
debt service provisions are similar to those of the Muni-
Existing Authorities
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cipal providing for the Parking and for sewage disposal;
Bloomsburg, Park, Municipal (for sewage and trash dis-
02. Soo a.
a.
in
over the United Sfafes.
and constructs the
COLUMBIA COUNTY
Area: 4S4 so. mis.: 309.600 acres
112,200
water conservation postage stamp
bonds
these mountains, with exceptions as noted,
is
slightly
north
of east to south of west.
Just west of Berwick, a moderate hill emerges from the
general level, and becomes higher as it extends west, becoming a full scale mountain west of our county. "Turkey
Bloomsburg, is actually part of
formation called Montour ridge.
Hill," north of
(GEOGRAPHY
this
Continued on page 12)
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Starting before 1810 roads and bridges for horse drawn traffic
River transportation before 1800, dec
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Canals from 1852
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85^4.
Farm machinery becomes widespread develop!
Predominately
local
Local
industries producing for
local markets
iron mines support foundries and furnaces
Academies, esp. Blcomsburg
Lit,,
Institute which grows into Normal Schc
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m horse drawn to steam then motor powered, also grows in variety
Industries with wide regional, national, and international markets develop
hen
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then
to State Colleqe
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53,460
53,150
51,414
-50.000
48,803
48,349
48,457
Berwick
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40.000
River Districts
£
30,000
Bloomsburg
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20,000
Lower
Upper
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Fishing
Little
Fishing
Creek
Creek
Creek
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Catawissa
Catawissa
Valley
Roaring Creek Valley
Cntrlia- Cnynghm.
;
location of the county seat near the western border in
Danville, 30 years of agitation led to
its removal to BloomsThis in turn led to further dissatisfaction
until the county of Montour with Danville as the county
burg
seat
in 1848.
was
set
up
in 1850.
Further history of the county is related to the chart on
the preceding two pages. The grouping of districts on this
chart: Berwick: Berwick Boro. River Districts: Briar Creek
Boro., Briar Creek, Mifflin, No. Centre, So. Centre. Scott
Twps.; Bloomsburg: Bloomsburg Town; Lower Fishing
Creek: Hemlock, Montour, Mt. Pleasant Twps.; Upper
Fishing Creek: Benton, Orangeville, Stillwater Boros.. Benton, Fishing Creek, Jackson, Orange, Sugarloaf Twps.
Little Fishing Creek: Millville Boro., Greenwood, Madison.
Pine Twps.; Catawissa: Catawissa Boro. (Earlier part of
Catawissa Valley)
Catawissa Valley: Beaver, Catawissa,
Main Twps.; Roaring Greek Valley: Cleveland. Franklin.
Locust, Roaring Creek Twps. Centralia-Conyngham Cen:
;
Old House, Hemlock Township
:
;
(GEOGRAPHY
Continued from page 9)
tralia Boro.,
Viewed from the side, these mountains for the most
part have a long level profile of a fairly uniform height.
Like
(GEOGRAPHY
Indians,
who
to find
an outlet for the surplus
production, timber and timber products, farm crops and
and the wealth still to be derived from the wildand forest. Land transportation first by pack
horse, then with the coming of turnpikes and bridges, by
horse drawn vehicles was in each case slow and costly. At
stream and river freshet times canoes, then durham boats,
clumsv arks and clumsier rafts, took cargoes, including the
valuable timber of which they were constructed, all combined worth thousands of dollars, to downriver markets,
but at bitter costs in losses of life, cargoes, and boats, from
river hazards. Improvements were demanded. The North
Branch canal started to function for our region in 1832.
and gave our region access far up the branches into New
York and to the Atlantic Ocean ports, excepting during
the winter months. The railroads reached us in 1854, and
livestock,
life
Continued on page 14)
— The powerful Susquehannock
frontier or pioneer communities, the pressing
need was transportation
North Mountain at places reaches 2,300 or 2,400 feet
above sea level; the others mentioned up to 1,700 or 1,800
feet. However, the mountains reach only about 1,000 to
1,500 feet above the valley floor.
A lower group of elevations spread widely between
these mountain ridges. They reach heights of possibly 800
to a thousand feet, but only four to six hundred feet above
the valley floors. Their summits for the most part form
fine rolling hilltop farms, except where streams have
carved deep valleys with steep, sometimes precipitous
sides. The stream bottom lands provide farms as rich as
might be desired.
History
all
Conyngham Twp.
at
one time controlled the entire Susquehanna Valley, had,
by the time of William Penn, succumbed to attacks of
many enemies, white and red, as well as the white man's
diseases. Their Iroquois conquerors, the Five Nations of
the Mohawk Valley, allowed several wandering tribes to
occupy our region. In 1768 by the Treaty of Stanwix the
Iroquois sold a vast area embracing our area of Pennsylvania to the heirs of William Penn. This sale was against
the wishes of the occupying groups, chiefly the Delawares,
and partly explains Indian hostilities to come later.
A few settler without legal authorization, "squatters,"
along with fur traders, had already come into our region.
After this treaty, settlers migrated in considerable numbers. Settlers from Connecticut claiming the Wyoming
Valley region and others from eastern Pennsylvania clashed in armed conflicts with bloodshed. The conflict was
finally settled by Decree of Trenton, 1781. The Revolution also brought Tory-Patriot conflicts to our region accompanied with frontier forays, battles, captures, death,
and destruction at the time of the attacks on Wyoming
Valley to the north. With the end of the Revolution, 1783,
migration surged into our region fostered by a fever of
of stream
after 20 or 30 years their competition challenged the canals,
which
finally
succumbed
in 1900.
And now
the rail-
roads in turn are fighting for their lives in competition
with the newer automotive and air forms of transportation. Transportation improvements made it possible for
our region to exploit its endowments of natural resources.
In addition, local industries producing largely for local
markets were able to find outlets for their surpluses in
the metropolitan regions. Records are meager, but large
amounts of timber must have been boated and rafted
down
the river.
In 1822 iron ore was discovered in the hills north and
west of Bloomsburg. Smelting furnaces sprang up, first
using charcoal derived from forests and then later anthracite coal. Bloomsburg became a great iron town. Two
furnaces and associated industries producing pig iron and
fabricated iron products made Bloomsburg a bustling
manufacturing town with railroad and canal taking out
its products. By 1890 the more accessible ores had been
exhausted and the remnants could not support an industry
in competition with the richer resources from the Lake
land speculation.
Superior region.
Soon the isolated settlers' cabins received neighbors,
farms were cleared and pioneering changed to a more
settled agriculture. In 1772 Northumberland County was
set up including a vast area north and west from Sunbury.
County after county was cut off; Columbia in 1813, with
In the
sport
late
decades of the nineteenth century, Williamcapitol of the world. The opera-
became the lumber
its Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company extended to embrace the untouched forests of the North
Mountain region, north Columbia County extending into
Sullivan. For a brief time until the forests were exhausted
tions of
a name reminiscent of the then popular patriotic song,
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." Dissatisfied with the
(HISTORY
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Continued next page, column 2)
Local
Government
Columbia County
Units of
With Recent Population Figures
1960 Data from Preliminary Releases of United States Census,
Summer
of 1960
Columbia County has nine
municipalities.
Ranked
ac-
cording to population, they are:
1960
Gain
Population
Population
Loss
14,010
10.633
2,000
1,986
13,336
10,614
1,812
1,427
890
878
348
424
975
954
398
437
189
193
1950
Municipality
Berwick Borough
Bloomsburg. Town
Catawissa Borough
1.
.
2.
3.
Centralia Borough
Benton Borough
Millville Borough
Briar Creek Borough
Orangeville Borough
Stillwater Borough
4.
5.
.
6.
.
.
7.
8.
9.
.
.
The County has twenty-four second class
Ranked according to population they are:
1950
Township
1.
Scott
2.
Briar Creek
3.
Mifflin
4.
5.
Hemlock
Greenwood
6.
South Centre
7.
Conyngham
8.
Locust
Fishing Creek
12. Cleveland
1
2,258
1,546
1,478
3,231
1.876
1.
14.
Benton
Beaver
15.
Mount
16.
Pine
17.
North Centre
18.
Catawissa
19.
Main
20.
Orange
21.
Sugar loaf
13.
1,306
1,251
842
2,009
1,125
1,108
1,182
1,107
801
942
990
952
923
774
687
686
656
904
826
.
747
776
649
674
678
502
552
387
625
456
445
424
Pleasant
.
.
22. Franklin
23.
Roaring Creek
24.
Jackson
.
COUNTY TOTAL
+
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4-
4
+
4-
now somnolent community of Jamison City
up to its pretentious name of city, with concentrated
lumber and tan bark industries. Our southern townships,
Beaver and Conyngham, but chiefly Conyngham, exploitlived
ed resources in anthracite coal in the late nineteenth century. Those at Beaver are worked but little, if at all. The
973
330
Since the turn of the century with the reduction or
exhaustion of most of our primary resources, the economic
base of the county has come largely to rest on the skill and
—
162
205
55
who have brought indusour county, diversified to a degree, but not sufficiently so. Consult the table on page 8. The efforts of
leaders finally placed in our midst an important institution of higher learning in its dollars and cents impact on
our region as well as in its educational influence, the
Bloomsburg State College.
enterprise of industrial leaders
tries to
901
75
189
10
19
52
60
90
War days were not only a time of prosperity.
sometimes bitter in their denunciations, were opposed to the Lincoln administration. Alleged threats of
resistance resulted in the occupation of the county by
soldiers. Violent or outrageous incidents took place to the
shame of both factions.
Civil
Critics,
7
23
33
651
645
573
71
551
1
440
433
425
392
360
53
192
31
53
64
-
The disturbances in the
name of Molly McGuire's
trials,
310
53,150
1950
1960
Gain
Population
Loss
16,700
—
4-699
Salem Township,* Luzerne
County (Partly in Berwick
School Jointure)
Nescopeck
Borough,*
2,859
3,281
4-422
1,907
1,924
+
17
694
639
-
55
2,051
2,228
4-
177
Luz-
erne County
erne County
Ralpho Township, Northumberland County, part of
Southern Area Columbia
County, School Jointure
County Units
murder
and executions by hanging.
culties.
A study of the Population Chart, pages 10 and 11,
shows remarkably small changes in population numbers
from 1860 to the present. The tendency of the districts
near our larger centers of population, see Table page 1 2,
to increase at the expense of the built-up sections, is especially evident in the river districts and Salem Township,
Luzerne County, adjacent to Berwick, and also in the
townships adjacent to Bloomsburg. Scott Township's gain
is especially marked.
Nescopeck Township,* Luz-
* Luzerne
convictions,
Now in the mid-century decades, economic growth has
been slowed down. Leaders are working to overcome this
situation and are encouraged by the promise of the Keystone Shortway, part of US Interstate Rout 80, which
is to pass directly through the center of the county and
should overcome permanently our transportation diffi-
+
Twenty-Sixth Judicial Dis16,001
anthracite regions under the
in the late 1860's resulted in
violence in the southern end of our county with
Montour County (with Columbia County) forming
trict
Continued from preceding page)
in 1910, the
4-283
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North Mountain.
Conyngham-Centralia coal measures still are yielding, but
on a reduced scale and largely by open pit mining.
Loss
+
+
+
-
to
+
Gain
53,460
Population
Municipality
(HISTORY
townships.
1960
1.640
1,298
Looking up Coles Creek Valley
50
4-
Population
Montour
Madison
9.
10.
- 674
- 19
- 188
-559
+ 85
+ 76
Population
1,093
+
—
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closely associated with Berwick's trading
and com-
muting area.
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Approaching Berwick
Policing
— Pennsylvania
takes great pride in
its
State
Catawissa Creek, rising east of Aristes, in the far south,
on the outside of the horse-shoe curve of
Catawissa-Little Mountain. In doing so, it seems also to
prefer the "hard way," cutting its valley through numerous rock formations finally to find its outlet in the river
one of the first such bodies created, and still one of
the best. The Bloomsburg Barracks has Columbia County
as its complete district. It is staffed by one sergeant, one
corporal and eight troopers. In districts without organized
police, the State Police provide policing: enforcement of
traffic and criminal law and the maintenance of peace.
Bloomsburg, all the boroughs excepting Briar Creek and
follows a course
Police,
at Catawissa.
The Roaring Creek
branches, north and south, spend
upper courses differently. The northern branch
drains the rich farming land of Roaring Creek Valley, although some of its sources lie in the horseshoe mountain
rim at the east. The southern branch rising in the deep
and wooded Brush Valley, after yielding of its water to the
impounding dams of the Shamokin Water Company,
cuts brusauely through Little Mountain at Bear Gap.
their
and also the townships of Conyngham and
Montour, have organized police forces. In such districts
the State Police give assistance on request of the head of
Stillwater,
The different forces cooperate closewith each other. The constables have powers of arrest
and serve papers of the justices of the peace.
the local department.
ly
Sealer of Weights
and Measures
—
northern county
and then the
combined streams cuts through bordering hills in rapids
flows north, across the "grain" like
Columbia County's
and Measures in 1960 examined for
accuracy 2,425 scales and measures in the county, of
which 42 were adjusted and 30 condemned. 23.829 packaged commodities were checked, of which 2,200 were
condemned. Recently, prosecutions for fraudulent viola-
counterparts, picks
Sealer of Weights
tions
have been
and
ive
many
North Mountain
From
The
results are that at
almost canyons.
One
scenery of Columbia County provides a wealth of
and rugged
mountain terrain. View the broad expanse of the North
Branch of the Susquehanna as it enters the county at
Berwick with a backdrop of Council Cup (Kanzel Kopf
or pulpit head). At Bloomsburg the broad flood plain
formed by the river and Fishing Creek are rimmed with
the sharp bluffs of River Hill. The river makes its way
beautiful broad vistas, distant landscapes,
streams
some places there are broad,
make narrow
interesting exception to the
southward trend is the steplike pattern of Fishing Creek.
Its south-bound current absorbs Huntington Creek from
through a sharp gorge, the Catawissa Narrows, affording
a view of distant Catawissa Mountain. At the south is
somber Brush Valley; at the north the impressive mass
Knob
can again turn south. Twice again the stream
is deflected to the west when it strikes Turkey Hill below
Lightstreet, and then at the Red Shale cliff's at Bloomsburg, until it merges with the River at the '"Point," between Bloomsburg and Rupert.
Briar Creek, the only other considerable stream on the
"North Side" of the county, similarly cuts through obstructing rock formations to join the river at the com-
Mountain,
hours of delightful tourof the County's history,
—
The
the east at Forks and then flows west until, past
many
Much
Enjoying Our County and Its Scenery
In Columbia
County are to be found these routes: Federal US 11:
State roads, designated Legislative routes numbered in
the 19,000's; County; and Township roads.
gentle valleys, at others the harder rocks
valleys,
full.
standable.
flow south, cutting "across the grain" of hard and soft
layers.
will take
cliffs,
Columbia County scenery a
understood from these basic geographic facts. Its transportation problems and advantages also become under-
streams called rivers,
this area, these
to be called
mineral, agricultural, and timber resources are to be
tributaries, takes its rise in the extens-
region.
gives the
ing to enjoy to the
the previously deserted valley at Danville.
its
and knobs,
wide variety that
Continued from page 12)
many
what used
This combination of streams and meadows, ridges,
The generally east-west trend of mountains and valleys
have been able to control the stream flow only in part.
The Susquehanna river, North Branch, after cutting
through mountains south from Shickshinnv to our east,
flows westward in a channel on softer rock formations for
about twenty miles. Then it abruptly deserts the easy
channel down Dutch Valley in order, it would seem, to
cut through the rocky formations at the south thus forming the Catawissa Narrows. Then in a few miles it cuts
back again through the same difficult formations to reach
along with
waterfalls to join the river at
gaps,
Fishing Creek, larger than
its
the northern branch,
Roaring Creek Station.
rare.
(GEOGRAPHY
up
it
of
North Mountain.
We here outline for you nine circle tours. None is
mentioned that does not have many picturesque views, if
not grand and arresting vistas. If road turnings are missed,
there will still be alternative and rewarding prospects. In
each tour, any point other than the one suggested may be
made
munitv of the same name.
the beginning.
Each
other unexpected delights.
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trip in reverse direction
Many points of historic
adds
interest
Airplane view of central Berwick.
will also
reward the
ommended
tourist. Advertisers
have
our county with
listed rec-
dining places.
Trip 1. Northeastern tour: In 1807 the Susquehanna
and Tioga Turnpike Company was organized to build a
road north from Berwick to Tioga, continuing the turnpike from Lehigh, constructed in 1787. This route went
north over Lee and Huntington mountains to modern
Jonestown then farther through part of Fishing Creek
Township to Luzerne County's Huntington and Fairmount townships and on northward to Elmira (earlier
called Newton, New York). Take Leg. Rt. 19,040, then
No. 894 over Huntington Mt. to Jonestown and Huntington Creek. Huntington Mountain, Creek, and Township carry the
man and
name
are well distributed over the County.
The Berwick YMCA serves men as well as boys. A program of indoor and athletic games and other activities
are made possible by gymnasium and swimming pool and
of a distinguished Connecticut states-
jurist, signer
of the Declaration of Independ-
Samuel Huntington, and thus
other
important
influence exerted by Connecticut in the settlement of our
ence,
recall the
TOURS
Confined on page 19)
ship,
also
;
;
;
;
;
Zehners, Iola, Roaring Creek Valley, Central, Stillwater,
and
Fernville.
—
Youth Services
The Columbia-Montour Council of
Boy Scouts of America serves Columbia and Montour
Counties generally with Luzerne county neighboring Benton and Berwick, and Riverside, Northumberland County, near Danville. Eight hundred adult leaders aid 2,350
boys in 188 Cub, Scout, and Explorer units. Camp Lavigne in Sugarloaf Township provides the highest standard of camping facilities. The central office at Bloomsburg
serves the three districts of Green Briar, Berwick area,
Fishing Creek, Bloomsburg Area, and Montour, Danville
available to
500 boys and
serves about
girls.
—
—
der requirements similar to the active reserve in the armed
services. The armed services maintain enlistment offices
Bloomsburg, and the National Guard at Berwick and
The Berwick Armory includes the 1068th and
1069th Transportation Companies and the Armory at
Danville, the Howitzer 104th Armored Cavalry. Women
may enlist in the Auxiliary units of each service for periods of two, three, or four years.
at
Danville.
The Selective Service System of the United States is
represented in the County by the local Board No. 50,
made up of five members appointed by the President of
area.
The Columbia County
is
Regular Enlistments
All the armed services
Army,
Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard
accept volunteers within the established quotas. Reserve enlistments in
each of the services are also possible under similar arrangements. The Reserve enlistments require 6 months of
full time basic training followed by a stated time in the
Reserve, usually 3 years. Reserve personnel must give 2
weeks of active duty each year plus 48 training sessions,
approximately 100 hours, each year in the vicinity of the
home region. Enlistments in the National Guard are un-
libraries in the State. Its
Light Street, Millville (2 stations) Numidia (2 stations)
Orangeville Library, Pine Summit, Waller (2 stations)
and
—
unique in having one of 26 traveling
headquarters are at the Bloomsburg Public Library and it provides books and magazines
for 24 stations: (Bendertown, Benton (3 stations)
Briar
Creek, Derrs, Espy (2 stations) Greenwood, Jerseytown,
is
comparable program
a men's dormitory. Fees are moderate.
junior-senior high school youths with paid adult leader-
Berwick, Bloomsburg, and Orangeville. Col-
umbia County
A
is
Approximately 500 enjoy the program.
The Bloomsburg Youth Center, initiated by the Kiwanis Club, provides a broad indoor recreational program for
Library Facilities in Columbia County include free public
libraries in
facilities.
women. There
region.
(SCENIC
central office in Bloomsburg. Five
its
hundred adult leaders aid 1,400 girls in 67 active units.
Camp Creasy near Bloomsburg is used for day camping,
especially for the Brownies, and Camp Louise, on a splendid 180 acre mountain site south of Jonestown, recently
acquired, is in use with further development pending.
In 4-H work, Head, Heart, Hand, and Health, boys
and girls, 10-20, are trained in skills and citizenship. The
Columbia County Program is one of the strongest in the
state. Our 1,000 participants, more or less, frequently win
distinction in district, state, and national contests. Leaders
Council, Girl Scouts, Inc., serves
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Civil Defense organizes stand-by alerts among neighboring districts or companies in such situations.
Columbia County's
fire protection rests in these 28 volcompanies: Beaver, Benton, Berwick (Defender.
Eagles, Ranger, Reliance, West Branch),
Bloomsburg
(Friendship, Liberty, Rescue, Winona), Buckhorn, Catawissa, Centralia, Espy, Light Street, Lime Ridge, Locust
Dale, Main Township, Mifflin Township, Millville, Montour, North Mountain, Orangeville, Summerhill, Valley
Chemical (Numidia), Wilbuiton: No. 1. Wilburton: No. 2.
unteer
fire
Next time your
Mountain view.
in order that
the United States.
The
at the risk of
headed by the Clerk chosen by the State Director of the Selective Service under
office
to all parts of the county.
life
and property,
to help
it
generously.
from
eligible
lists.
service available
types of organizations are
Berwick and Bloomsburg members join the
fee. The pooled resources make
possible the purchase of ambulances and equipment.
Emergency calls to members are covered on a fee per call
basis. In the other type, of which Catawissa is an example,
a sponsoring organization, the Lions Club in this case,
raises funds and secures the equipment. Emergency calls
are then on a fee per call basis for all.
organization for a modest
The Board
400 annually.
Ambulance
— The Berwick United Fund
Two
in effect. In
determines eligibility according to established rules. The
Clerk carries out the decisions. The office registers about
United Funds
members, be sure
its
money
tries to raise
better protect your
— Organizations make such
Ambulance
places, currently Berwick High School; John May's residence, Centralia; and Catawissa High School. Quotas
assigned to Columbia County are filled according to date
first,
company
local fire
may
is
Federal Civil Service regulations. Male youths within five
days after their eighteenth birthday must register in the
Clerk's office in the Court House, or at other designated
of birth, the oldest
it
organizations:
burg, Catawissa,
area includes
Benton, Berwick, Blooms-
Conyngham and
Millville.
Centralia
and Mt. Carmel. Your chamber of commerce, nearest hospital, or town
or borough police department, will aid you with detailed
have
Columbia County west as far as Ft. Jenkins Road, Mifflin
Township, Nescopeck, Nescopeck rural routes, Wapwallopen, and most of Salem Township, Luzerne County.
The Columbia County United Fund includes the rest of
Columbia County excepting, also, Conyngham-Centralia
facilities
available in nearby Ashland
information.
—
Red Cross
Two Red Cross Chapters, Berwick and
Bloomsburg, function for most of Columbia County. The
National Red Cross, operating under Federal Charter, is
a voluntary organization of wide popular support. It
districts.
General Hospitals are located
at both Berwick and
Bloomsburg. Each serve their respective municipalities as
well as neighboring communities. At Danville is the Gei-
charters the local chapters.
come under
Conyngham and
Centralia
the entire region the
Carmel chapter. Berwick
covers neighboring parts of Luzerne County.
In all natural disasters and emergencies, the Red Cross
takes the initiative in organizing relief and aid. There is
cal services to
a high degree of cooperation with the Civil Defense.
singer
Memorial Hospital. Besides serving
as
a general
hospital for the Danville area, this institution provides for
more specialized surgical and medibe found usually only in large metropolitan
centers. All three hospitals are in the process of enlarge-
the Shamokin-Mt.
Personnel are trained in
ment. Berwick will add 54 to its present 92 beds and the
Geisinger 100 to its present 307 beds, plus a thirteen room
operating suite and additional facilities. There will be a
substantial but as yet undetermined addition to the 99
beds at Bloomsburg.
life
saving,
and
All chapters collect
Bank, which
is
first aid, in
is
and process blood
at Wilkes-Barre. "Priority
ceive aid
from
may, and most do,
One" means 90%
on
call of the chief.
The
fire
chief
is
elected by
First aid
A
The com-
members of the
and companies,
fire
and then
civilian
and
lost
children facilities are provided at most
gatherings.
primary responsibility of the chapters
is
to render
service by counselling to persons in emergencies.
The Junior Red
panies, including the fire police, have a military type
organization with a chain of command under the fire
chief.
more of
special donors.
equipment, and supplies. Besides fire personnel, each
company has a unit of fire police for the purpose of protecting property and directing traffic, sworn in for these
purposes by proper authorities. Fire police are subject, in
fighting
or
needs will be met to the extent possible, after which requests will be channelled through the local chapter for
re-
their political districts respectively: hous-
fire
Blood
hospitals will be met. In lower priorities civilian hospitals'
ing,
addition, to
for the
the quota has been secured. In this priority the needs of
provided for the County by 28 volun-
teer chartered fire companies. All
nursing, in
located at a central place, for our region,
military hospitals, veterans hospitals,
Fire Protection
home
to give instruction in such activities.
Cross program enlists the aid of school
children through modest contributions in building
up
funds for children in disaster situations, U.S. or foreign,
school supplies and library books. The Junior Red Cross
has a program for international student exchanges of
scrap books, music albums, and art albums.
College students aid blood donor recruitment.
de-
partment. By custom, all districts
including those outside the county, will aid in emergencies be-
yond the capacity of an individual company or district.
Calls for help go through the local chief for approval. The
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;
The Columbia County Unit of Civil Defense is in the
Eastern Area of Pennsylvania, part of a nationwide Civil
Defense Organization. The Board of County Commissionby act of the State Legislature with
supporting Federal legislation, is responsible for Civil Defense in each county. This Board appoints, subject to the
as authorized
ers,
Governor's approval, a County Director. He in turn appoints a director for each political subdivision. Their
functions include safeguarding lives and protecting property in all types of disasters, with special emphasis on
and resources provided A county-wide radio
communication system is operated from Berwick and
Bloommsburg as centers. Two hundred trained men as
auxiliary civil police are on call. RACES, an organization of licensed amateur radio operators, are alert to
supply communication in case of breakdown of other
Services
:
channels. First aid training has been given to over 200
women
persons with over 150 young
trained for
home
matching funds are joined
with those of the State and County to cover certain exnursing. In general, Federal
The
penses, especially equipment.
services are entirely
all
all
Aid resources include
:
One
complete
types of bandages, compresses,
types of antiseptics
and
and
first
aid unit
sanitary cups
antibiotics regularly replaced
emergency hosBloomsburg, one in Berwick, equipped
completely for prompt operation; medical and surgical
equipment; antiseptics and antibiotics with potency maintained by continuous replacement, and standby electric
generators. "The doctor won't even need to bring his
to avoid potency decline; four 200-bed
pital units, three in
stethescope.")
Municipal Directories, which are frequently revised, are
and greater Bloomsburg
areas. Rural routes are included. Berwick, in addition,
includes Salem Township and Nescopeck, while Catawissa is covered by the Bloomsburg volume.
available for the greater Berwick
.
Missionary,
authorship of primers for illiterate adults in over 165
languages, bringing literacy to millions by the plan of
''each
one teach one."
Dr. John Edwin Bakeless, 1894Army, res., ret., University teacher,
.
Colonel, United
journalist, author,
editor, in fields of literature, history, biography,
ics,
econom-
public affairs.
Chambers
Commerce
of
area; the one for
in addition to
— The
greater Berwick area
and shopping
Bloomsburg, Catawissa and RD areas
Bloomsburg; Orangeville.
a translation of the Indian name. Catawissa borough, at
first Hughesburg, from settler who laid out town, super-
seded by Indian name. The weight of evidence is that
this name is derived from several Indian dialects always
meaning "pure water." Stream and township also so
named. Fishing Creek, stream and township, translation
of Delaware Indian name, Namescesepong. RoaringCreek, stream and township, mentioned in very early recpresumed to be translation of the Indian Popeme-
Moses VanCampen,
scout
and
frontier leader of rang-
Revolution.
State Senator,
1861; United States Minister to Ecuador,
1858-
1861-1863;
United States Senator, 1863-1869.
William Hartman Woodin, 1868-1934. Prominent
manufacturer at Berwick; Secretary of Treasury under
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dr. George
Edward Pfahler,
internationally as the pioneer
named
1874-1957. Recognized
and leader
in
radium
ther-
internationally as one of the world's five
pioneers in radiology.
17
Espy, from Josiah Espy; Eyersgrove, from Jacob Eyer;
Jerseytown, settlers from New Jersey; Orange township
and Orangeville from settlers from Orange County, New
York, and Orange, New Jersey (there is no Orange CounRohrsburg, from Frederick Rohr, a Prussian
ty, N.J.)
veteran of the Napoleonic Wars.
;
Famous Persons
— Presidents Cleveland, Jackson, and
Madison townships. Others: Benton borough and towntownship, Senator Thomas Hart Benton; Conyngham
ship, from President Judge John Nesbit Conyngham;
Huntington creek and mountain from Samuel Huntington (see Scenic Tour 1, p. 15) Jamison City from Colonel
township, from Governor Thomas Mifflin Franklin townprinter,
ship, from famous statesman, scientist, author and
;
;
Benjamin Franklin.
— Greenwood,
Mt. Pleasant townships and
Stillwater borough.
—
Hemlock townReminiscent of Timber Resources
and stream and Pine Summit, Pine Creek and Town-
ship
River rounding
guarding the Susquehanna frontiers during the
Charles Rollin Buckalew,
tung.
ship.
Columbia Countians Who Have Gained
More Than Local Distinction
er forces
Some of Columbia County's Names: Indian Names Briar Creek, stream, township, and borough. This form,
or Green Briar, appears in earliest records suggesting it is
Scenery
includes, in general, the Berwick industry
apy;
1884-
ords,
voluntary.
with
Frank Charles Laubach,
atomic attack.
perils of
First
Dr.
educator, preacher. Missionary activities include the co-
bend
of
mouth
of Fishing Creek.
The Columbia County Board of Assistance
made up
is
of seven unpaid laymen, appointed by the Governor under
Pennsylvania law. It prepares estimates which are reported for approval to the State Secretary of Public Welfare.
The Board
appoints, under Civil Service regulations,
a Director to administer the program.
"
i
--/.--
•^MR
:~--^sefrs>
He
dispenses relief
following Board decisions and in compliance with Stat:
law. Relief
is
dispensed from State funds matched in some
cases with Federal funds in the following classes:
1.
Old Age Assistance
to
needy Pennsylvania residents
over 65.
River entering Catawissa
Narrows
at Rupert.
—
Pennsylvania State Highway Commission
Columbia
County is a part of Highway Engineering District No. 31,
with headquarters at Montoursville.
The headquarters
in
Bloomsburg is for maintenance and snow removal on the
553 miles of state highways in our County. Minor construction on these roads, including bridges, is performed
in the slack summer months. The work force of 120 laborers, headed by a local superintendent, is aided by a staff
of three assistants and an office force of five. When a road
is adopted by an act of legislature, it is given a number
and comes under the jurisdiction of this department.
2.
Pensions to those with major or total blindness.
3.
Aid
ents
dependent children lacking one or both parfrom divorce, death, or other cause.
4.
Aid
to those totally,
5.
General assistance to needy unemployed employ-
to
ables
and
Department of Forests and Waters,
District,
No.
20,
of Pennsylvania,
embraces Columbia, Montour,
and Northumberland Counties, along with the Western
Section of Luzerne and the Muncy Valley section of Lycoming. The District Office is in Bloomsburg and is headed by a District Forester. Services: Fire protection, 10
towers, those of Catawissa
ty;
and
Aristes in
fire
Columbia Coun-
administers state forest lands, none in Columbia; ad-
ministers State Parks,
Luzerne, and Dry
nearby.
none
in
Run and
The Waters
Division
Columbia but Ricketts Glen,
World's End, Sullivan, are
is
centered at Harrisburg.
The Columbia County Child Welfare Services are headed by an Acting Director chosen by the County Commissioners on recommendations of the State Secretary of
Welfare under Civil Service regulations.
The Acting
pointed
tey
is assisted by two case workers apCounty Commissioners on recommenda-
Director
the
tions of the Acting Director.
The Acting
Director
is
as-
by an advisory board appointed by the County
Commissioners after nomination by a nominating comsisted
mittee of the Board.
The
services rendered:
(1)
Place-
ment
of children in foster homes. (2) Protective services
to children in sub-standard home conditions. (3) Services
to unmarried mothers. (4) Child adoption services. (5)
Institutional placements for retarded, delinquent, and
handicapped children. Board, medical, and dental care,
and also clothes may be supplied. Financing is from the
County Institution District with State reimbursement.
The State pays salary of the Acting Director, and the
Institution District pays the caseworker with
reimbursement.
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50%
State
their families.
The County' main
The Bloomsburg
is in Bloomsburg with
and Centralia.
office
cation offices in Berwick
appli-
Columbia County
and Mechanical Association,
century and more of life, has come to be one of the
Fair, officially the
Agricultural, Horticultural,
in
its
greatest fairs in the State.
During the annual Fair Week, beginning
in the last
days of September, a quarter of a million people are in
attendance. Exhibits appropriate to the
well as school
Wyoming
permanently disabled.
and hobby
interests,
official
name,
as
reach uniformly high
standards. Races attract those of sporting interest and a
wide spectrum of entertainment is always topped with
outstanding talent at the evening shows.
Roaring Creek Rapids and falls
The Columbia County Work Unit of the
servation Service
is
U.S. Soil Conheaded by a Work Unit Conserva-
appointed by the Pennsylvania State Conservation
tionist
Service under Civil Service regulations.
established in 1950
and
is
The
office
was
located in the Court House.
The office provides technical and engineering assistance
for members of the Columbia County Soil Conservation
This service:
District.
2)
assists district
trict in
1)
members
supplies county soil surveys;
of the Soil Conservation Dis-
developing long range conservation of land resour-
ces appropriate to the soil characteristics along with fac-
View
in
Fishing Creek Township.
and drainage; 3) assists farmer members in
the establishment and carrying through of such plans.
tors of slope
(SCENIC TOURS Continued from page 15)
North from Jonestown via 19,069, or a variety of other
interesting roads, including those in neighboring Luzerne
County, to Red Rock, Luzerne County.
Side trips may be made to magnificent Ricketts Glen
State Park; n. to Central and Jamison City; route 16, Elk
Grove, Nordmont, LaPorte and to state park at World's
End, Sullivan County.
The Columbia County Conservation District has 750
members out of the 1,510 farmers eligible. The members'
farms combined make up 67,500 acres, or about 50% of
the available acreage. National figures show that in every
:
year since 1945 the gross income of conservation farmers
has increased, whereas the income of conventional farmers
reached a peak in 1951 and has decreased ever since. In
1945
4%
of the farmers in this county
had
basic conserva-
1954 the number had risen to 25%. These
farmers in the 25% produced 45% of our gross agrition plans; in
HOTEL MAGEE — Beautifully
with television and
decorated rooms
Children
Columbia County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Office is set up under the United States Department of Agriculture and is located in Bloomsburg. It
free.
Continuing,
tracing the valley of Fishing Creek; Ben-
s.
where stands a Theodore Burr
covered bridge, Columbia County's memorial to covered
bridges; Forks; Orangeville; Knob Mountain; Light
ton; thence to Stillwater,
which
Street,
near
is
site
olutionary fort; across
tour Ridge
and
;
cliffs
and
of red rocks, the Bloomsburg red
swimming
pool, skating area; intersection with Rt.
n.,
with alternative (a)
which takes you past the old limestone quarries,
some still active, or (b) old Berwick road through villages
reminiscent of old canal days, Espy; Almedia Lime Ridge,
site of Revolutionary Fort Jenkins; Briar Creek; and
Rt.
encourages programs for agricultural conservation by promoting good practices and administers the conservation
reserve (soil bank) with the production adjustments as to
wheat allotments on permitted acreages.
Established farmers in the County compose the Conservation Committee, which in turn chooses, under Federal
Civil Service rules, the Office Manager. He also reports
to the Farmers' Field Man in the United States Depart-
ment
of Agriculture.
turn
;
War Monument; down Market
this road past Bloomsburg Town
242 at river bridge and airport;
US
Mon-
Civil
Street to river, left at
Park,
Hill, actually part of
into Bloomsburg, county seat with courthouse
at fountain
s.
Rev-
of Fort Wheeler, a frontier
Turkey
location of extensive nineteenth century
iron mining; past
shale
cultural output.
air-conditioning.
1 1
;
Berwick.
Agricultural
Office.
different in
every way.
.
paid by the County Commissioners. The Fundamental
function of the office is to bring the findings of research to
the farms and home. Advice is made available on livestock
farm and garden
and health.
culture,
home management,
.
will find hospitality,
.
.
.
Trip 2. North Central area: Alternative trips are (a)
Bloomsburg Main Street at Iron, turn n. on 42 then
—
after crossing creek Leg. Rt. 19,029 to
Greenwood Valley
Route 254, this route e. to Rohrsburg, or (b) Bloomsburg to Orangeville on 339, then follow signs to Rohrsto
burg; n. to junction of Leg. Rt. 19,060; Waller; turn left,
Leg. Rt. 19,061 down Little Fishing Creek Valley through
(Continued on next page)
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The
Home
nutrition,
charm and convenience
inexpensively. You will be agreeably surprised how homelike a hotel can be.
Here you
and
the Pennsylvania State University. Office expenses are
feeding,
HOTEL BERWICK — So
and Home Economics Extension
Economics Extension Service
maintains an office for the County in Bloomsburg with a
staff of five, headed by the County Agricultural Agent
and the Home Extension Economist. All are employees of
Agricultural
View from Montour Ridge, looking up Susquehanna
River.
Media of