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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The first military telegraph exchange of the Civil War was handled by a Lewistown, Pennsylvania, woman who worked as a telegrapher encompassing a forty-five-year career.
Two Susquehanna Valley men who later rose to prominence, one as a landholder and frontiersman, the other a gifted minister, first had to spend several years in the New World as servants to pay for their passages.
