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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Columbia, Williams County, Ohio

Columbia is an unincorporated community in Williams County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

History

Columbia was founded in 1854.

The village was the terminus of the St Joseph Valley Railway from 1915 to 1918, running from Angola, Indiana. This was a failed interurban electric railroad project attempting to create a passenger service between Chicago and Toledo, but which was never electrified.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Columbia, Williams County, Ohio
  2. ^ Bowersox, Charles A. (1920). A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 382.
  3. ^ Hilton & Due: Electric Interurban Railways of America Sanford University Press 2000 p. 276

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