Columbia
Catawissa Friends Meeting
At Catawissa, three miles distant, is the Friends meetinghouse built about 1775.
Columbia County
Bloomsburg, PA
Formed March 22, 1813 out of Northumberland County.
Fishing Creek Confederacy
Benton, PA
Alarmed about draft resistance, the federal government deployed 800 troops to the Fishing Creek Valley in August 1864 to suppress the...
Fort Jenkins
A stockaded house used as a settler's refuge was situated here on the bank overlooking the river, 1778-80, when it was destroyed by the...
Fort Mc Clure
Bloomsburg, PA
Early in 1781 the McClure house was stockaded by the noted Indian fighter, Moses Van Campen, to protect settlers in this region after...
Fort Wheeler
A stockade-type fort was built here in 1778 along Fishing Creek by Moses Van Campen.
Stuart Tank
Berwick, PA
During WWII, 9,135 American Car & Foundry workers from the surrounding region produced 15,224 tanks for American and Allied Forces.
Wyoming Path
Bloomsburg, PA
Important path linking the many Indian settlements in the Wyoming Valley with Shamokin, now Sunbury.