✨On This Day In History✨

On September 29, 1896, the Cedar Keys Hurricane ripped through Central Pennsylvania with gale-force winds and torrential rain. The storm that had begun as a Category 3 Hurricane hammered Columbia, PA, destroying the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. It was so powerful that it swept the bridge from the piers, with some of the pieces landing near the iron furnaces south of Marietta. The 1869 bridge was the third to span the Susquehanna at Columbia.