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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A local hardware store owner in Muncy, Pennsylvania during the Civil War, secretly funded the return of soldiers killed in battle. His efforts quietly helped cover expenses for families who couldn't afford the return of bodies and burial expenses.
A distinctive regional style of Pennsylvania longrifles now called the Upper Susquehanna School, or sometimes the Sunbury–Northumberland School, was made in the Susquehanna Valley. It came after an earlier period when frontier craftsmen often focused on repairing military and civilian arms.
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.
