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Historical/Biographical Essay Index

Volume One

Charles R. Buckalew	Jacob Keller - Witness to the execution of Lincoln
Alexander W. Rae Murder	Sarah Van Tassel
Charles F. Rabb - describes Bloomsburg in mid 1800's	Steamboat blows up outside of Berwick - 1826
155 Years Ago	Canal Days
Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike	Election Celebration - James K. Polk
Mrs. Wilson Creasy Diary	Old History for the Young
Schools of Long Ago	Remembers Well Death of Lincoln
2nd Bloomsburg County Fair 1917	Civilian Conservation Corps
Bloomsburg Artificial Ice Company	First Silk Mill and Opera House
The Catawissa Railroad	Columbia Iron Ore
Susquehanna River Coal	Jefferson Davis' Guard
Jamison City as I Remember It	Iron Ore Furnace at Mainville
Many Changes in Bloomsburg after Fifty-four Years	GAR Ent Post 250-Memory Book
1916 Sugarloaf High School	C. W. Fortner Letters

Volume Two

LOUIS BERNHARD	LIFELESS IRON ORE
GROUND BROKEN FOR CANAL in BERWICK	SHAD FISHING AT BLOOMSBURG
STILLWATER AND VICINITY	PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES COMES TO BLOOMSBURG
1838 FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION IN BLOOMSBURG	OLD RECIPES
GREENWOOD VALLEY	LABOR DAY IN BLOOMSBURG
The Proprietor of Bloomsburg: John Adam Eyer	SCHOOL HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY Part One
An Interesting Review of the Past Fifty Years	Courthouse Jack
SCHOOL HISTORY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY Part Two	Columbia and Montour Trolley
McKelvy Warehouse	Paul E. Wirt
Bloomsburg and Danville Rivalry	A QUICK LOOK AT BLOOMSBURG IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Jamison City	Iron Furnace at Mainville
Steam Plant	Jamison City
Birch Oil	River Ferry Service
Mummer's Parade	Berwick Boom
Centralia Fire	Daniel Snyder
Wyoming Massacre	Diphtheria in Bloomsburg
The Old Hundred	Light Street
Cole Genealogy	The African Farm and Feather Company
A Sketch of Orangeville	With Drums Beating and Colors Flying
Last Hotel in Bloomsburg	Henry Ohl Gravestone
Pole Raising	The Whitmoyer Saga
The ballad of John Funston	Going to the Bloomsburg Fair - 1870
James Cleaver

Volume Three

The Argus: Benton Newspaper	Bloomsburg Gets Gas Lights
Cages on Graves Explained	Columbia Co. and Presidential Elections
Discovering Noted Jurist in Old Rosemont Cemetery	Espy Gets Boat Yards
Halcyon Days of Espy and Boating	North Branch Canal
Recollections of Benton	Trip up Fishing Creek Valley
Garrison, Lloyd and 19th Century Bloomsburg	1904 Susquehanna Floods
Grocery Store Business	Rural Free Delivery in Columbia County
CCC Camp Morton	Grange

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