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The Northumberland County Historical Society is a Pennsylvania nonprofit organization, which was chartered on October 26, 1925 and incorporated on May 21, 1998. Its leaders, members and volunteers are dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts, documents, photographs, and other items which tell the story of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and its people.
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.
Shamokin (/ ʃ ə ˈ m oʊ k ɪ n /; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink [1]) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.
SUN Area Vocational-Technical School was first conceived in the early 1960s as a solution to the shortage of skilled labor in central Pennsylvania. [7] Vocational training was a widely accepted solution, however questions over district participation and the location of the new school prevented it from opening until 20 local districts accepted the Articles of Agreement in 1967.
The Bloody Spring is a historical site in the Sunbury, Pennsylvania area. Located on school district property, it is purported to be the location where a soldier from Fort Augusta that was guarding cattle was ambushed and murdered by a Native American tribe member in 1756, during the French and Indian War.
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Fort Augusta was a stronghold in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the upper Susquehanna Valley from the time of the French and Indian War to the close of the American Revolution. At the time, it was the largest British fort in Pennsylvania, with earthen walls more than two hundred feet long topped by wooden fortifications.