Sunbury, Pennsylvania

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The first human settlement of Sunbury were likely Shawnee migrants.Weslager, C. A. (1972). The Delaware Indians: A History. Rutgers University Press: News Brunswick, p. 192. A large population of Delaware Indians was also forcibly resettled there in the early 18th century after they lost rights to their land in the Walking Purchase. Canassatego of the Six Nations, enforcing the Walking Purchase of behalf of George Thomas, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, ordered the Delaware Indians to go to two places on the Susquehanna River, one of which was present-day Sunbury.

From 1727 to 1756, Sunbury was one of the largest and most influential Indian settlements in Pennsylvania. At that time, it was known as Shamokin, not to be confused with the present-day city of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, which is located about 13 miles to the east.

In 1745, Presbyterian missionary David Brainerd described the city as being located on both the east and west sides of the river, and on an island. Brainerd reported that the city housed 300 Indians, half of which were Delawares and the other Seneca and Tutelo.Rev. John Edwards, ed., Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd, New Haven, 1822, p. 233.

In 1754, much of the land west of the Susquehanna was transferred from the Six Nations to Pennsylvania at the Albany Congress. However, Shamokin was not sold and was reserved by the Six Nations, "to settle such of our Nations as shall come to us from the Ohio or any others who shall deserve to be in our Alliance."Weslager, C. A. (1972). The Delaware Indians: A History. Rutgers University Press: News Brunswick{{rp|215}} According to Weslager, "the Pennsylvania authorities had no opposition to the Six Nations reserving Wyoming and Shamokin from the sale, since friendly Delawares, including Teedyuskung (also known as Teedyuscung) and his people living in those settlements--and any other Indians who might be placed there--constituted a buffer against Connecticut."

The French and Indian War brought fighting to much of the region. The Delaware Indian residents of Shamokin remained neutral for much of the early part of the war, in part because a drought and unseasonable frost in Shamokin in 1755 left them without provisions.Weslager, C. A. (1972). The Delaware Indians: A History. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, p. 225-227.

However, the Delaware Indians at Shamokin joined the war against Pennsylvania and the English after the Gnadenhütten massacre in 1755, and Shamokin was abandoned in May 1756.Weslager, C. A. (1972). The Delaware Indians: A History. Rutgers University Press: News Brunswick, p. 229. Pennsylvania Fort Augusta was built in 1756 on the former site of the village of Shamokin. The Bloody Spring is a historic site from the era.

On March 21, 1772, Northumberland County was incorporated and subdivided.{{cite web|url=http://www.northumberlandcountyhistoricalsociety.org/page.asp?tid=144&name=Area-History|title=Area History :: Northumberland County Historical Society|website=www.northumberlandcountyhistoricalsociety.org}} The settlement was named Sunbury that same year, and the present-day city of Sunbury identifies 1772 as the date of its establishment.{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofsunbury.com/Pages/Home.aspx|title=Home|website=City of Sunbury, Pa (SunburyPA.org)}} It was named after Sunbury-on-Thames, a town in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne, England, just outside Greater London.

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Lorenzo Da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart and of Salieri, lived in Sunbury for some years after his arrival in America.

In July 1883, American inventor Thomas Edison installed the first successful three-wire electric lighting system in at what was then known as the City Hotel. At the city's 150th anniversary celebration in 1922, it was renamed the Edison Hotel.{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofsunbury.com/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?A=862&Q=428368|title=Home|website=City of Sunbury, Pa (SunburyPA.org)}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

File:Walking path in Sunbury 2.JPG This is a list of the historical places located in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

File:Walking path in Sunbury 2.JPG This is a list of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission historical markers{{Cite web |title=Pennsylvania Historical Marker Program |url=https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/Historical-Markers/Pages/default.aspx |website=The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}} located in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

Sunbury is at {{coord|40|51|50|N|76|47|21|W|type:city}} (40.863894, -76.789174).{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}} It is located at the point where the west and north branches of the Susquehanna converge.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{convert|2.2|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|2.1|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.04|sqmi|km2}} (1.40%) is water.

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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,[https://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metro_general/2006/List5.txt MICROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS AND COMPONENTS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629011245/http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metro_general/2006/List5.txt |date=2007-06-29 }}, Office of Management and Budget, 2007-05-11. Accessed 2008-08-01.[https://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metro_general/2006/List6.txt COMBINED STATISTICAL AREAS AND COMPONENT CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREAS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629011223/http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metro_general/2006/List6.txt |date=2007-06-29 }}, Office of Management and Budget, 2007-05-11. Accessed 2008-08-01. which had a combined population of 173,726 at the 2000 census.

As of the census of 2010, there were 9,905 people, 4,540 households, and 2,637 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,716.7 people per square mile. There were 4,864 housing units at an average density of 2,316.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of Sunbury in 2000 was 95.26% White, 1.29% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.91% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.09% of the population.

In 2000, there were 4,540 households, of which 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-families. 36.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.91.

In 2000, the city the population had 23.9% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.7 males.

The median income for a household in Sunbury was $37,851 and the average $52,975 in 2020. About 19.8% of the population was below the poverty line.{{Cite web |year=2020 |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2021.S1903?q=Sunbury+city,+Pennsylvania&t=Income+and+Poverty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030180421/https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2021.S1903?q=Sunbury+city,+Pennsylvania&t=Income+and+Poverty |archive-date=2023-10-30 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=data.census.gov}}

Weis Markets, a regional supermarket chain operating in seven states, is headquartered in Sunbury. The company is a significant employer in the city and the region.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}

Great Coasters International is a roller coaster design and manufacturing firm and lists its contact address in Sunbury, though it is located outside of the city limits.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}

Sunbury Motor Company is a family-owned and -operated company since 1915; it is on North 4th Street.

The Squeeze-In on Market Street is an iconic business that sells hot dogs seven days a week with just five stools. The business is just 7.5 feet wide. Hot dogs are sold to-go out the service window. Serving hot dogs since 1945.

Zimmerman Motors on Market Street is a family business that began making horse-drawn carriages in 1889 and now sells automobiles.{{Cite news|last=Scicchitano|first=Eric|date=July 7, 2019|title=Century of commerce in the Valley: Firms thrive, transform through decades|work=The Daily Item|url=https://www.dailyitem.com/news/snyder_county/century-of-commerce-in-the-valley-firms-thrive-transform-through-decades/article_3bb23fdc-2882-5a7e-b3f5-ae2fe55323a5.html|access-date=March 17, 2021}}

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The local public school system is the Shikellamy School District. There is a campus of Lackawanna College in the city.

Shikellamy School District

The Degenstein Community Library at 40 South Fifth Street provides books, DVDs, internet access, educational classes, summer reading, and adult programs. The Degenstein Community Library was awarded a Gold Star from the Pennsylvania Library Association in 2018 for its participation in the PA Forward Star Library program. The library has maintained its gold star for the past 5 years.

The Northumberland County Historical Society maintains the Charlotte Darrah Walter Genealogical Library. It contains material on local history along with thousands of records of early families from Northumberland County and surrounding counties. Access to records is on a fee basis. The permanent exhibits deal with the site in prehistoric times, at the time of the Moravian Mission and blacksmith shop, and Fort Augusta during the French and Indian War and later under the Americans, during the Revolutionary War.[http://www.northumberlandcountyhistoricalsociety.org/information.htm Northumberland County Historical Society website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627143100/http://www.northumberlandcountyhistoricalsociety.org/information.htm |date=2007-06-27 }}.

The local newspaper is The Daily Item. There are a variety of local radio stations, including the all news/sports channel WKOK 1070 kHz AM, the Big Country Radio Network (WLGL 92.3 FM, WQBG 100.5 FM, and WWBE 98.3 FM) and WFYY Y106.5 FM and 94.1 WQKX.

• Colonel William Clapham (1722–1763) lived in the area while supervising the construction of Fort Augusta in 1756–57.
• Lewis Dewart (1780–1852) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• William Maclay (1737–1804), was a politician from Pennsylvania who served as a senator.
• Timothy Murphy, American Revolutionary War soldier/sniper (Battle of Bemis Heights)
• Shikellamy, also known as Swatana, was an Oneida chief and overseer for the Iroquois confederacy who, as a supervisor for the Six Nations, oversaw the Shawnee and Lenape tribes in central Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River. In 1742, he moved to the village of Shamokin, modern day Sunbury, and lived there until his death in 1748. He is reputed to be buried nearby.{{citation |title=Shikellamy Historical Marker |url=http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-214 |website=explorepahistory.com |access-date=July 28, 2012 |location=Harrisburg, PA, USA |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission |quote=Oneida chief and overseer or vice-regent of the Six Nations asserting Iroquois dominion over conquered Delaware and other tribes. He lived at Shamokin Indian town, Sunbury, from about 1728 until his death, 1748. Said to be buried near here.}}{{citation |last=Grumet |first=Robert Steven |title=Northeastern Indian lives, 1632-1816 |year=1996 |series=Native Americans of the Northeast |location=Amherst, MA, USA |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=1558490019 |lccn=95033144 |oclc=605358451 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015037293696}}{{closed access}}{{subscription required}}{{Cite book |last=Merrell |first=James Hart |title=Into the American woods: negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier |date=2000 |publisher=Norton |isbn=978-0-393-31976-7 |edition=1. publ. as a Norton paperback |location=New York, NY}}

• Betty Brice (1888–1935) was a silent film actress from Sunbury.
• Charles M. Clement, Pennsylvania Army National Guard Major General.
• William Franklin "Birdie" Cree (1882–1942) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the New York Highlanders(New York Yankees).
• Herbert Wesley Cummings (1873–1956) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• Charles L. Dering, Wisconsin lawyer and politician, was born in Sunbury.
• William Lewis Dewart (1821–1888) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• Honorable John Peter Shindel Gobin, Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Commanding Officer, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
• Isaac Clinton Kline (1858–1947) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• John Black Packer (1824–1891) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist (Cosi fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni) lived in Sunbury from 1811 to 1818.
• Simon P. Wolverton, was a lawyer and Democratic politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1895.

• Tim Boetsch is a UFC fighter with training in American mixed martial arts.
• Euell Gibbons, an outdoorsman and early health food advocate
• Steve Kline (left-handed pitcher)
• Brenda Lewis, Metropolitan Opera soprano and Broadway star
• Glen Retief, Lambda Literary award-winning writer and author of The Jack Bank, A Memoir of a South African Childhood.
• Mark Smith, racing driver
• Peterson Toscano, playwright, actor, Bible scholar, and human rights activist.

In the episode titled "Nixon vs. Kennedy" in first season of the AMC cable drama Mad Men a train supposedly carrying the unrecognizable body of Pvt. Dick Whitman, who was killed in the Korean War, arrives in Sunbury. The escort officer with the casket is said to be Lt. Don Draper, and the casket is met by Dick Whitman's adoptive mother, his half brother, Adam and his mother's second husband. In fact, the person killed in Korea was Don Draper, and Dick Whitman has switched identities with Draper. Though Dick Whitman posing as Draper attempts to hide, Adam Whitman sees him, recognizes him, and chases the train as it leaves the station.Mad Men, Season One dvd

On September 29, 2020, Sunbury was featured on the Comedy Central television series Tosh.0 in a recurring video category called Shithole of the Week, a segment in which host Daniel Tosh takes images or videos of various communities found online and will select the "Winner" based on the comedic negative features based in that community. The image that secured Sunbury's placement was a June 2020 video of a man spray painting "WIGHTE LIVES MATTER" on his personal fence with the intent of spelling "White Lives Matter".{{Cite web|last=WKOK Staff|date=2020-06-22|title='Wighte Lives Matter' painted on fence in Sunbury goes viral {{!}}|url=https://www.wkok.com/wighte-lives-matter-painted-on-fence-in-sunbury-goes-viral/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=www.wkok.com}} Nearby city Shamokin was a previous "winner" of the same segment in 2016.

The extensive Sunbury Riverfront Park Project is in the planning and implementation stages in Sunbury. An extensive floodwall protection system was designed and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1951. Additional height was added to the wall in 2003. The system has provided protection from 15 major flood events over the past 50 years.Background Information and Data, Sunbury Riverfront Park Project {{cite web |last=Jaffe Collins |first=Simone |title=Sunbury Riverfront Master Site Plan - Background Information and Data |url=http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/lib/nor-sunbury/riverfrontproject/finalmsp/01_background.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710211112/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/lib/nor-sunbury/riverfrontproject/finalmsp/01_background.pdf |archive-date=2007-07-10 |access-date=2007-06-26}} In 1972, flood waters from Hurricane Agnes crested at {{convert|35.8|ft|m|1}} at Sunbury, two feet higher than the crest in 1936. The wall held back the water and residents showed their gratitude in messages they wrote on the wall.[http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?A=862&Q=428382&tx=1 History of Sunbury The flood wall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928151509/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?A=862&Q=428382&tx=1 |date=2007-09-28 }} SEDA-COG, Oct. 12, 2005.

File:Floodwall in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.JPG in Sunbury]] Hurricane Agnes in late June 1972 was blamed for 10 deaths in Lancaster County, eight in Dauphin County, five in York County and four in both Northumberland and Luzerne counties, according to the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.Tropical Storm Agnes in the Susquehanna River Basin June 21–24, 1972, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Information Sheet

Additionally, a multimillion-dollar fish ladder is being built across the river in Shamokin Dam to mitigate the impediment of the shad migration up the Susquehanna River caused by the annual inflation of the Adam T. Bower Fabri Dam.{{cite web|url=http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=3840&SubjectID=|title=DCNR to Remove Last Impediment to Shad on Susquehanna}}

The Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam, an inflatable fabric-tube dam barrage impounding the Susquehanna River, creates the {{convert|3,000|acre|km2}} Augusta Lake for recreation. It is inflated in May and deflated in the fall. The new waterfront development in Sunbury will provide a marina with transient boat docks, walking trails, gardens, an amphitheater and a new accessible fishing pier. Three acres of land will be added to the river side of the flood wall.

The city offers baseball fields, a skating park, tennis courts, playgrounds, a community pool and a small park that is next to the county courthouse, in the downtown area.Public parks of Sunbury {{cite web |url=http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?a=853&q=428179 |title=City of Sunbury: Merle Phillips Park |access-date=2007-06-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825182854/http://www.seda-cog.org/nor-sunbury/cwp/view.asp?a=853&q=428179 |archive-date=2007-08-25 }}

A vacant building in the Shikellamy State Park along the river is under consideration for redevelopment as an environmental research and education center. Designed in the 1960s, the facility was originally the Basse Beck Environmental Center. It has been empty for several years.

The city and state struggle economically, part of America's "Rust Belt". A Brookings Institution publication has cited reasons including a lack of inter-municipal coordination and cooperation, a changing employment base and a dearth of jobs paying a living wage, out-migration of young people, an aging population, the need for workforce development, and an inequitable local tax structure.Alter, Theodore R. [http://www.brook.edu/metro/pubs/committingtoprosperity.htm "Strengthening Rural Pennsylvania" Brookings Institution.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711094914/http://www.brook.edu/metro/pubs/committingtoprosperity.htm |date=2007-07-11 }} March 2007.

The Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way in 2006 commissioned a study regarding what matters most in area communities. They found that some major concerns were alcohol and drug use among all age groups and its effects on the community, the dependency on social services and assistance across generations, and a lack of public transportation."Group works to define quality of life issues." The Daily Item, July 15, 2007. It is the intention of the organization to focus spending on these issues.

The Susquehanna Industrial Development Corporation (SIDCO) received $173,500 in planning grant funding (2005) to support the redevelopment of the Wilhold Manufacturing facility in Sunbury. The BOS funding paid for a market study, phase II environmental study, wetland review, traffic impact study and title survey. The site, an {{convert|11.6|acre|m2|adj=on}} former rail yard and plastic manufacturing plant, is to be developed into four, {{convert|2|acre|m2|adj=on}} shovel ready sites. It was suggested that the redevelopment of this facility will result in the creation of 120 jobs.{{cite web|url=http://www.newpa.com/newsDetail.aspx?id=204|website=PA Department of Community & Economic Development|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070927010902/http://www.newpa.com/newsDetail.aspx?id=204|archive-date=2007-09-27|title=Governor Rendell Announces Approved 'Business in Our Sites' Projects}} The site was purchased by Moran Industries, based in Watsontown, for $200,000.Finnerty, John, [http://www.cpeo.org/lists/brownfields/2006/msg00016.html "Moran buys Wilhold site"], The Daily Item, Jan 13, 2006. Moran is using the space for food grade storage.

Weis Markets has its corporate headquarters in Sunbury."[http://www.weismarkets.com/about-weis/contact-us/ Contact Us]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120505152641/http://www.weismarkets.com/about-weis/contact-us/ Archive]) Weis Markets. Retrieved on May 7, 2012. "1000 South Second Street PO Box 471 Sunbury, Pennsylvania 17801"

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• [https://www.sunburypa.org/ Official City website]
• [http://www.northumberlandcountyhistoricalsociety.org/ Northumberland County Historical Society], Sunbury, Pennsylvania
• [http://www.shamokin57.com Photos of Sunbury and Shamokin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311084148/http://www.shamokin57.com/ |date=March 11, 2009 }}
• [https://47thpennsylvania.wordpress.com/related-units/sunbury-guards-company-f-11th-pennsylvania-volunteers/ Sunbury Guards] (Company F, 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry)
• [https://47thpennsylvania.wordpress.com/company-c-color-bearers/ Sunbury Guards] (Company C, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry)

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