Columbia Bridge Company Collection, 1809-1843

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Call Number:  MG0217

5 boxes     190 folders     3 cubic ft.

Repository:  LancasterHistory (Organization)

Shelving Location:  Archives South, Side 5

Scope and Content Note: Valuable source of information concerning construction of bridges in the early 1800s. There are signatures of many prominent people. Documents concern the building of the first two bridges across the Susquehanna River in 1814 and 1832. Includes minutes, form for stock certificate, invoices, legal papers, proposals, receipts, stockholders, promissory notes, by-laws, settlement of stage tolls with Samuel Slaymaker 1813, salary receipts, circulars and announcements, bridge tolls, orders for payment, correspondence, and a stock certificate from 1842.

Creators:  Columbia Bridge Company; Goodell, Robert H.