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Northumberland County Historical Society; Location: 1150 North Front Street, Sunbury, Pennsylvania 17801 Type: Historical/Museum/Library: Key holdings: Artifacts from Fort Augusta and the French and Indian War through the American Revolution; civic and church records from the time of the region's earliest settlers to the present; historic newspapers, vintage photographs, and other items of ...
In 1947 the Schwenkfelder Library was established as a non-profit educational institution separate from Perkiomen Seminary. In 1951 the book and manuscript collection were moved to a new building adjacent to the Perkiomen School. In 2001, the Schwenkfelder Historical Library was expanded to house the library, archive, and museum collections.
The Sunbury Historic District was created by the City of Sunbury, Pennsylvania on October 14, 1996, via Ordinance No. 1204 (subsequently amended on September 22, 2006): [2] "§ 175-116 General provisions. A. District created.
Sunbury is the largest principal city of the Sunbury-Lewisburg-Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Sunbury (Northumberland County), Lewisburg (Union County), and Selinsgrove (Snyder County) micropolitan areas, [29] [30] which had a combined population of 173,726 at the 2000 census.
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
Jul. 14—SUNBURY — The Sunbury city clerk's office will open for part-time hours while officials search for a full-time clerk. According to City Administrator Derrick Backer, the office will ...
Kathryn Hume (born 1945) [1] is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University. [2] She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.
He specifically targeted the need for a top-quality library, stating, "Without a great library, you can't have a great university." [4] In 1993, he and his wife Sue, began a campaign which raised $13.75 million for the construction of a new library. The groundbreaking for the Paterno library, which took place in April 1997, named it in their honor.