BLOOMSBURG, a town in east central Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on Fishing creek, near the Susquehanna river, 35m. S.W. of Wilkes-Barre; the county seat of Columbia county. It is on Federal highway II, and is served by the Bloomsburg and Sullivan, the Reading, the Lackawanna, and (through East Bloomsburg, just across the river) the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 1930 was 9,093 by Federal census. The town is built on a bluff commanding extensive views, and is the seat of a State normal school, established in 1869. There are manufactures of importance, including carpets, silk, woollen goods, fountain pens, cars and car wheels, and oil-burning locomotives. Bloomsburg was laid out in 1802, became the county seat in 1846, and was incorporated in 1870.