About Town - March 16, 2025

This week's photos of Columbia 

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A Wrightsville resident found this grave marker in their backyard and donated it to the Columbia Historic Preservation Society. How it got to Wrightsville is a mystery. 

It marked the grave of a Civil War Union soldier, Corporal George H. Stape. The grave's location is unknown, but research suggests it may have been at a burial trench at Salisbury National Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina. Stape's name also appears on a Stape family grave marker at Mount Bethel Cemetery.

According to online records, Stape died of disease in Salisbury Prison (a Confederate prison) in North Carolina in 1865.

This is the grave marker for the Stape family (including George) at Mount Bethel. 

Another side of the marker.

The following information was found online at lancasteratwar.com and findagrave.com:

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Fellowship meals are available at United Methodist Church on these days. 

All boarded up

Security cameras - a necessary evil 

Is there an underground network?

Suitable for hanging on your living room wall

Reserved coffin

Bus driver training

Currently not in service 

Activity(?) at 14 Lancaster Avenue, currently owned by Group B Enterprises LLC

Activity at the tracks, but Norfolk Southern still hasn't fortified the crossing at the former sewer plant and is holding up the borough's plan to sell the plant to JG Environmental, which is currently renting the facility. 

PennDOT workers patching cracks(?) in the bridge

Looking at St. John Lutheran from Mount Bethel 

Don't dump nasty stuff down the storm drains.

Welcome to Columbia 

Your parking fine is now $30!

At Tollbooth Antiques 

Tractor in the driveway, ready to go

The signpost snapped off. 

Is this OK?

A brand new hydrant at 2nd & Walnut

Columbia's getting a new utility pole along Front Street. 

Flow the rock snake is migrating from  Columbia Crossing. 

Someone might be getting 7 years of bad luck.

Package drop box

Under new management 

There's another one.

There was a lunar eclipse Friday morning. 

These notices were posted at 209 Walnut Street, where a fire occurred last August. Columbia Spy reported on the fire HERE.

On Sunday afternoon (3/16/25), high winds blew a tree over, which temporarily blocked Ironville Pike, near the former Twin Oaks swimming pool. 

Units responded. 

High winds also churned up some rough waters on the Susquehanna. 

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