The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-04-07
Original.
History of Columbia County.
Copyright secured according to act Of Congress.
NUMBER XIII.
NUMBER XIII.
MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS.

MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS.
There is perhaps no County in the State
which is so we'll watered as Columbia. This
is doubtless owing to the hills which diver
sify its surface, and which, shedding their
waters in all directions, leave no part of the
County arid or unfertile. 1t is impossible
to designate, even by name, the multitude
of runs and brooks which, through the dry
summer season, feed from their mountain
springs the larger streams which pour their
waters into the beautiful Susquehanna, which
traverses the County for distance of nearly
twenty miles, entering it at the line of the
Borough of Berwick, and leaving it at the
DIontour County line. Bounding upon it
! on the northwest side are Berwick, Briar-
creek, Centre. Scott, Bloom, Montour; and
on the southeast Miiilin, Main, Catawissa
and Franklin. The river is crossed at Ber-
wick by a bridge, at Miflinville by rope
ferry, at Stonytown, in Centre township, by
another rope ferry, with third at Espy, in
Scott township, with fourth opposite
| Bloomsbury, by bridge at Catawissa, and
with a rope ferry near the mouth of Roaring
| creek.
Catawissa creek rises in Schuylkill county
| and runs through the entire length of the
| townships of Beaver, Main and Catawissa,
and empties into the North Branch Susque-
hanna at the point where the townships OF
Catawissa and Franklin strike the river.
Its largest feeder is Scotch run, which, ris-
ing in the township of Beaver, drains the
Scotch Valley, and after passing the whole
length of the township, enters the Catawissa
in Main township.
Roaring creek rises in the township oi
Roar;ngcreek, thence through Locust into
Catawissa, thence back into Locust, thence
through Franklin, striking the line between
Franklin and Mayberry in Montour County,
and becoming the boundary line to where il
emptes into the Susquehanna, about three
miles below the Catawissa. The south
branch of Roaring creek rises in Conyngham
township, running its entire length, and at
its con fines striking Northumberland Coun-
| ty, becomes the boundary line between Lo.
Gust township in Columbia County and
| Northumberland, and thence turning north
into Franklin, empties into Roaring creet
about six miles above its mouth.
Hemlock creek rises in Madison township
runs through Hemlock and becomes the
boundary line between Montour and Hem
lock for a short distance, and empties into
| Big Fishingcreek about one mile above its
| mouth, and about one mile from the town OF
| Bloomsburg.
Little Fishingcreek enters the County at
the Lycoming County line, and in its course
becomes the boundary line between the
| townships of Pine and jackson, then Pine
and Greenwood, then Greenwood and Madi-
son, then Madison and Mount Pleasant then
Mount Pleasant and Hemlock, and entering
Big Fishingcreek about four miles from its
mouth, at point where Bloom, Mount
| Pleasant and Hemlock join and receiving
in its windngs various small streams, as
Black run, Spruce run, Bear run, and
others.
Big Fishingcreek, west branch enters the
County from Lycoming at the north corner
of Jackson township, and the east branch
through gap in the mountains from Sulli-
van County into the township Of Sugarloaf
on lands of Craig, Blanchard & Co.; thence
south through Sugarloaf to about the centre
on the west side, where the two branches
meet-thence nearly to the south end of Su-
garloaf where it receives Coles creek
thence into Benton, near the southwest side
of which it receives West creek, thence
through and into Fishingcreek township
nearly to the south point, where it,receives
Huntingdon creek, large aflluent from Lu-
zerne county-thence by westerly course
into Orange, where it receives Green creek
thence southwest to the boundary line be.
tween Orange and Mount Pleasant thence
to the Susquehanna river as the boundary
line between Orange and Mount Pleasant
Scott and Mount Pleasant, Bloom and Hem,
lock, and Bloom and Montour, reaching the
river about two miles below Bloomsbury, al
Rupert, on the Catawissa and Lackawanna
& Bloomsburg railroads.
Briarcreek, Big and Little have theil
heads in the County. The larger stream
rises in Centre, flows eastwardly through it,
| whnle length into and tbrou,h Rriarc,aal