Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

When the Columbia County seat was moved from Danville to Bloomsburg in 1846, the town’s citizens raised private funds to erect the courthouse and jail. The original small brick courthouse had a front
portico with six Ionic columns, and a tower reaching eighty feet above the ground. The building has
been enlarged three times: rear extension in 1868, expansion to the front in 1891 (with a new
entrance and clock tower), and a second addition to the rear in 1938.