Wrightsville and Columbia Bridge Co. collection, 1812-1931.

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Wrightsville and Columbia Bridge Co. collection, 1812-1931.

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Materials relating to the Wrightsville and Columbia Bridge Co. (created as The President, Managers, and Company for Erecting a Bridge Over the Susquehanna River in the County of Lancaster, at or Near the Town of Columbia; bridge completed and opened 1814; in 1824 name of company (commonly known as Wrightsville and Columbia Bridge Co.) changed to Columbia Bridge Company; bridge washed away in an 1832 flood, replaced in 1834 to be burned by Union militia 1863; Columbia Bridge Company was also a banking institution and sold its interest in the remains of the burned-out bridge; two companies emerged: Columbia Bridge Company and Columbia National Bank. New bridge completed on burned out piers 1868-1869; in 1879 bridge sold to Pennsylvania Railroad; again destroyed in 1896 in a hurricane and reopened in 1897; current bridge dedicated in 1930 under auspices of Lancaster-York Intercounty Bridge Commission; currently carries route 462 from Wrightsville to Columbia.

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Lancaster-York Intercounty Bridge Commission (Pa.)

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Wrightsville and Columbia Bridge Co.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Columbia Bridge Company

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