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| | History |
 | | Columbia County was separated from Northumberland County in March, 1813. |
 | | Fifteen years before, on the evening of April 25, 1798, Joseph Hopkinson's song, Hail Columbia, was sung for the first time in the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, by the popular young actor, Gilbert Fox. |
 | | This song at once attained wide currency as a patriotic protest against the undiplomatic and highly reprehensible conduct of Citizen Adet, the French minister, who had the hardihood to issue an address to the citizens of the United States designed to incite them against their own government. |
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