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[Dungeon photos: Columbia Spy]

Columbia Borough lays claim to a strange subterranean space, people say.

Some swear ghosts lurk there, where no natural light shines.

A borough constable once forced famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison and heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer John L. Sullivan to spend the night — albeit in different centuries. Another occupant died by suicide, historians say.

And now, volunteers with the Columbia Historical Preservation Society want to restore the dungeons below the Columbia Market House with wood floors, replicated furniture and interpretative panels that relate its storied past as a prison from the mid-1800s to about 1928. One goal, says Rick Fisher, the society member spearheading the restoration, is to create a display rich with history.

“We want to preserve them before any more damage occurs,” Fisher says of the six crumbling, windowless prison cells.

Grab a free sneak peek at the underground area and learn about its history Thursday at 6 p.m. at the market house.
MORE: HERE.

Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. on March 10, 2024, the second Sunday of March.

The meeting packet is  HERE.

James Edward Switzenberg and Erika Herold conveyed property on a public road to James Edward Switzenberg and Erika Herold for $1.

Victor Lopez conveyed property on Union Street to Kevin Simmons for $200,000.

Charles W. Hershey and Peggy A. Hershey conveyed property on a public road to Shawn R. Weidman, Alyvia A. Pauzer and Kathleen Pauzer for $347,000.

This week’s photos of Columbia

(Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) 

There were shots fired last Sunday night in the 500 block of Avenue H.

It was the fourth such incident this year.

Contrails converging?

Lighting

The ever-changing rock sculpture at Columbia River Park

Mennonite Feeding Station

Yield

Lost plate at 2nd & Walnut

Lights at the post office entrance

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Remnants of Universal Techs at 4th & Chestnut

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The head of “Flow,” the community rock snake

The morning after the rain

“Gonna get my banjer and put it on my back“

– John Hartford, “The Julia Belle Swain”

Elephant in a pickup

See-through duck

Cuter than Cupid

The bridge on a van, instead of the other way around

On the lookout

Clean coal?

He didn’t make it.

A flag

Another flag

Morning fog

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Moons and stars

Not in service

Maintenance personnel fixed the broken fence at River Park.

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Harcon backed their boat in, but they didn’t stay this time.

Two years ago, they used the crane on the boat to inspect the bridge.

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All sorts of oddities have been roaming the tracks lately.

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Shot glasses in the form of camera lenses, from a friend of Columbia Spy

A few from this afternoon:

Plenty of those around

Free chairs

Flying over

The sunset was deserving of more than one photo.