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Bloomsburg

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town and the county-seat of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Fishing Creek, 2 m. from its confluence with the Susquehanna, and about 40 m. S.W. of Wilkesbarre. Pop. (1890) 4635; (1900) 6170, of whom 213 were foreign-born. It is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Philadelphia & Reading, and the Bloomsburg & Sullivan railways (the last a short road-30 m. - connecting with Jamison City in the extreme northern part of the county); and is connected with Berwick, Catawissa and Danville by electric lines. The town is built on a bluff commanding extensive views. Among the manufactures of Bloomsburg are railway cars, carriages, silk and woollen goods, furniture, carpets, wire-drawing machines and gun carriages. Iron ore was formerly obtained from the neighbouring hills. The town is the seat of a state normal school, established as such in 1869. Bloomsburg was laid out as a town in 1802, became the countyseat in 1846, and was incorporated in 1870.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bloomsburg'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/bloomsburg.html. 1910.
 
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