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Columbia, formerly Wright’s Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 10,222. It is 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg, on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River, across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30.

The unity was founded in 1726 by Colonial English Quakers from Chester County, led by opportunist and evangelist John Wright. Establishment of the eponymous Wright’s Ferry, the first billboard Susquehanna crossing in the region, inflamed territorial charge with next to Maryland but brought bump and riches to the small town, which was just a few votes shy of becoming the additional United States’ capital. Though besieged for a quick while by Civil War destruction, Columbia remained a lively center of transport and industry throughout the 19th century, once serving as a terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal. Later, however, the Great Depression and 20th-century changes in economy and technology sent the borough into decline. It is notable today as the site of one of the world’s few museums devoted agreed to horology.

The Place around present-day Columbia was originally populated by Native American tribes, most notably the Susquehannocks, who migrated to the Place between 1575 and 1600 after separating from the Iroquois Confederacy. They expected villages just south of Columbia, in what is now Washington Boro, as well as claiming at least hunting lands as far south as Maryland and northern Virginia.