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City or town Description 1: Welle Hess Covered Bridge No. S1: Welle Hess Covered Bridge No. S1: November 29, 1979 (#79003175) June 27, 1986: South of Grassmere Park: Sugarloaf Township: The bridge collapsed on July 19, 1981, [13] [14] and was removed from the NRHP in 1986. Photo is of a model constructed from original bridge materials.
Notable non-residential buildings include the Reading and Columbia Freight Station (1883), Holy Trinity Catholic Church and School (1915), American Legion Post 469, Women's Club, Columbia Lodge #1074 BPOE, Columbia Town Hall (1874, 1947), St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1888), Franklin Hotel (c. 1833), and Columbia Water Company (1849 and later).
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.
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 .
Sugarloaf Township is located in the northeast corner of Columbia County, and is bordered to the north by Sullivan County and to the east by Luzerne County.Most of the township is rolling hills, with elevations ranging from 850 to 1,300 feet (260 to 400 m), while the northern part of the township contains the southern escarpment of the Allegheny Plateau, with elevations rising to 2,341 feet ...
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Scott Township is at the geographic center of Columbia County and is bordered to the west by the town of Bloomsburg (the county seat), to the northwest by Mount Pleasant Township, to the north by Orange Township, to the east by North Centre and South Centre townships, and to the south by the Susquehanna River, across which are Main Township to the south and Catawissa Township to the southwest.
The Columbia Colonnade (formerly Columbia Mall) is next to the exit. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 17.6 square miles (45.7 km 2), of which 17.6 square miles (45.5 km 2) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.51%, is water. [3]