Discovering Bloomsburg
Subtitle: a bicentennial history
By: William M. Baillie, editor.
Contributors: Baillie, William M.; Bloomsburg Bicentennial Commission.
Publisher: Bloomsburg Bicentennial Commission
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomsburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Bloomsburg (Pa.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index.
On cover: 1802-2002.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The archaeological past / DeeAnn Wymer; title: Bloomsburg's founders / William M. Baillie; title: Bloomsburg in the nineteenth century / I.W. Hartman ; ed. George Turner; title: The changing face of Main Street / Brian Johnson; title: The trolley comes to Bloomsburg / Robert Dunkelberger; title: The long decline : railroads in the twentieth century / L.B. Fuller; title: "Do not sneeze or cough" : the influenza epidemic of 1918 / Sarah Skodacek; title: The floods of 1936 and 1972 / Emily Rupert; title: Rev. D.J. Waller / Linda B. Bailey; title: Growing up on Magee Row / C. "Chic" Thackara; title: The Bloomsburg perspective of Honest Abe / Joseph Lucadamo; title: Pennsylvania's only town and a political experiment / George Turner; title: The women's suffrage movement / Tiffany Enama; title: The iron industry / Ann Brandt; title: Moyer Bros. drug store / Patricia Parker; title: Women at work : the silk industry / William M. Baillie; title: Magee Carpet Company / Douglas Karsner; title: Bloomsburg's earliest churches / William M. Baillie; title: The first two high schools / Linda B. Bailey; title: The town's role in higher education / R. Dunkelberger; title: The V-12 program during World War II / Megan Engle; title: The Bloomsburg Fair / David Millard; title: The Bloomsburg Fire Department / Robert Rupp; title: The Bloomsburg Public Library / Hal Pratt.