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Laid out 1772 as the county seat of Northumberland on the site of Indian Shamokin by surveyor-General William Maclay. Borough incorporation Mar. 24, 1797. Here Fort Augusta was built in 1756. Historic center of travel, trade and industry.
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This tablet commemorates the installation at Sunbury PA., of the first three-wire central station incandescent electric lighting plant in the world.
On the night of July 4, 1883, Thomas A. Edison, the creator of the incandescent lamp, and invent…
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Mozart's librettist in the 1780s for "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Cosi fan tutte" came to America in 1805 and lived in Sunbury from June 1811 to August 1818. Da Ponte wrote that on visiting Sunbury, the adopted home of his wife's…
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Formed March 21, 1772 from Lancaster, Cumberland, Berks, Bedford and Northampton counties. Some 27 counties today occupy its once vast area. Sunbury, the county seat, was laid out 1772. Site of Fort Augusta, a key post built 1756-57.
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Here during the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763), one colonial soldier venturing from the garrison at nearby Fort Augusta, was fatally shot by an Indian foe. His blood is said to have crimsoned its waters.
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Laid out 1772 as the county seat of Northumberland on the site of Indian Shamokin by surveyor-General Lukens and William Maclay. Borough incorporation Mar. 24, 1797. Here Fort Augusta was built in 1756. Historic center of travel, trade and industry.
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West SideGive them the meed they have won in the pastGive them the honors their merits forecastGive them the chaplets they won in the strifeGive them the laurels they lost with their life.South sideErected to theMemory of the gallant soldiersof No…
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Center MonumentErected to the MemoryofThe World War HeroesbyThe Sunbury Civic ClubNov. 11, 1921J. MacBrill · Raymond Barnasconi · Harold G. Edwards · Hunter Foulkrod · Herbert E. Kaufman · Milton J. Nor…
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When Imperial Germany surrendered at the end ofWorld War I in 1918, many of its cannon were sent tothe United States as war trophies.This cannon was acquired by the City of Sunbury and Milton JarretNorman American Legion Post 201 and placed inCame…
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Laid out 1772 as the county seat of Northumberland on the site of Indian Shamokin by surveyor-General Lukens and William Maclay. Borough incorporation Mar. 24, 1797. Here Fort Augusta was built in 1756. Historic center of travel, trade and industry.