The Bronson House Museum is owned by the Columbia Local School District and maintained by the historical society.  Bronson Museum is named after Sally Bronson, the first permanent woman settler in the township and the first school teacher.  Here daughter and son-in-law, Sally and Willis Beebe, built the house. Sally Bronson lived in the house the last few years of her life until she passed away in 1865.

The society keeps the museum as a house of the 19th - 20th century in which a farm family lived for three to four generations.  A clock and rocker are said to have come with the original settlers from Waterbury, Connecticut.  An addition to the house has the collections of papers, books and artifacts from Columbia Township, which as founded December 7, 1807.

The museum is open the first Sunday in June, July, August and September and during the Columbia Homecoming (last weekend in June) and other times by appointment.  A Christmas open house, with mulled cider and cookies is held every other year.

A grant from the Lorain County Commissioners, through the Lorain County Historical Society, is being used to record 20th century history of Columbia Township and make either VHS tapes or CD's in honor of Columbia's Bicentennial in 2007.

The Columbia Historical Society meets the second Tuesday from February to June and September to December at 7:30 PM at the Columbia Town Hall or Bronson House Museum.

The Columbia Historical Society officers are Mary Melnyk, president; Sally Stone, vice-president; Jim Hitchcock, secretary; Dave Burnett, treasurer; Sharon Waldecker, publicity; Lynn Hantel, corresponding secretary; and Mark Hantel, webmaster.

Bronson House – PO Box 983, 13646 West River Rd., 440-236-8170 or 440-236-8935