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Columbia County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania . As of the 2020 census , the population was 64,727. [ 2 ]
Columbia, formerly Wright's Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 10,222. [ 3 ] It is 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg , on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River , across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30 .
Founded in 1743, the community was so named on account of a flouring mill near the original town site. [3] In 1940, the Pennsylvania guide, compiled by the Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration, noted that regional farmers had previously come to the area to buy supplies and "have their wheat ground by the millers along the Wissahickon.
Pennsylvania Route 442 begins at PA-405 near Muncy borough and leads southeast 16 miles (26 km) to Millville. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 20.6 square miles (53.4 km 2 ), of which 19.9 square miles (51.6 km 2 ) are land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2 ), or 3.36%, are water. [ 1 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
The Court voted to implement the new map by a 4–3 vote. [12] The map was designed with the assistance of Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily. [13] The districts in the Court's map were significantly more compact, and its map split fewer municipalities and counties than the prior Republican-drawn map. [14]
They coined the word "spudnut", and went into business in 1940. [2] In 1946, the company began establishing a nationwide chain of franchised Spudnut Shops. [3] In 1948, one new franchisee opened a store after paying $50 (approx. $1,095 in 2024 dollars) plus the cost of 100 sacks of spudnut flour. [4]
The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. According to district officials, in school year 2009–10, the Southern Columbia Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,488 pupils. The district employed: 108 teachers, 115 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 7 administrators.