In the 1880s, the Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company in Columbia County produced an estimated four thousand railroad cars. It was a leader in the manufacture of standard railroad freight cars, small mine and colliery cars, rotary dump cars, and other materials for the railroad and mining industries.
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Buckwheat grown in Columbia County and ground at one local mill proved popular at a New York City Hotel. And a Benton man who invented a machine to separate pebbles from the buckwheat during harvesting felt his invention wasn't that important.
A great flood in 1816 wiped out a valuable woolen factory located in what is now Forksville, Sullivan County. The Loyalsock Creek floodwaters destroyed the mill, but months later a large iron kettle used to make dye was found downstream. And it survives today.
