COLUMBIA, SUSSEX COUNTY,
DELAWARE
Maybe not too interesting,
but it is another thing that Sussex county newcomers
should know about.
Delaware has a populated place by name of Columbia , it is located
at latitude 38.498 and
longitude 75. 678 and sits at an elevation of 43 feet, according
to
DEHomeTownLocator on the
internet .
Sometime in 1988, Bob
Leary of the Wilmington Morning News visited Columbia
and talked to one or two
of the locals, there are maybe 50 or so, and here is what he had
to say about Columbia.
The name has a solid ring
to it, it conjures up images of a town square, an old court
house, a main street, but
our Columbia fails to have any of these tings. This place is in
the
far southwest corner
almost at the Maryland line, which is just a bit west of it. He
talked
with the most visible
resident, Warren Moore, age 61, who has the country store at the
cross roads of Sussex 507
and Delaware 76. When asked what is Columbia's claim to
fame he replies, “the
Mason Dixon Line marker up the road a mile. “ When questioned
about buildings, he point
across the road to the church, the Mt Hebron United Methodist
Church, founded 1860.
Looking for celebrities Leary found Sadie Beach, age 92,
Columbia's oldest
resident having moved “in town” in 1918 when she married
Otho
Beach who had the cross
roads country store. The great grandmother does her own grocery
shopping, keeps her yard
up in the summers, and says she is in good shape except for
laziness,
and has a good case of
that.
Nearby is the home of
Clyde Cooper, who was born in it in 1900. In his yard is a sycmore
which he thinks is the
oldest in Delaware, maybe 200 years old. Melvin Jones, age 69,
the town postman for 25
years until 1975 told of a crop duster plane crash one time.
That's the way it is, life
goes on in Columbia, sort of.
Abstract: August 19,
2018, by HARRISON H from Wilmington Morning News, Monday,
August 22, 1988, Bob
Leary's column , and www.DEHomeTownLocator.com
www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com
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