Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Assorted Stories, History, and Photos

Early sketch of Sunbury, when the courthouse was located where Cameron Park is today

Street By Street In Old Postcards

Market Street     Front Street  Miscellaneous
The Sunbury Retrospective App

The Original Map of Sunbury, 1772

By-Gone Days - Recollections of Sunbury by Dr. Robert H. Awl, 1899

The Sunbury Spook Of 1887

The Log Cabin Built By Pioneer Settlers

Fort Augusta
The Great Runaway     Hunter House Through The Decades   
The Adventures Of The Cannon    The Replica

Fort Augusta As Described in 1871
Where The Forts Once Stood - The 12 Forts Between Lock Haven & Sunbury

Parks
Cameron Park          Rolling Green Park      Island Park (Amusement Park)

When There Were Christmas Train Rides In Cameron Park

Transportation

Canal    Ferry    Steamboat

Trolley    Train

Sunbury's First Automobile, Built in 1903

Events

4th Of July      Mummers Parade    Patriotic Day
Sesquicentennial      Bicentennial      1919 Welcome Home 

When the World's Largest Hot Air Balloon Came To Sunbury

When The Liberty Bell Passed Through The Valley

The 1919 Welcome Home Supplement In the Daily Item

Bands

East Sunbury Band    Gaskins     IOOF Orphanage Band

Thomas Edison & The First Electric Three Wire Light In Sunbury

When Edison Came To Our Valley
How A Motor From A Sunbury High School Came To Be In The Smithsonian

Presidential Visits

Franklin    Nixon     Roosevelt   Truman
   The McKinley Funeral Train

Amelia Earhart & her mother at the Sunbury Airport 1929

Planes
The Sunbury Airport
The First Aviator To Fly Over Northumberland & Snyder Counties
When Ameila Earhart Made An Unplanned Visit, With Her Mother

Sports

Baseball    Horse Racing     Automobile Racing

Meredith Field       Memorial Park

When Connie Mack Came To Sunbury

When Willie Mays Played Baseball In Sunbury

1851 Sketch Of The Sunbury Courthouse

Landmarks

How Bloody Springs Got It's Name
 The Jail     The Courthouse 
 The Edison Hotel      The Neff Hotel

Hotel Shikallemy        Sunbury's Brown Street Clock
The Sunbury Fireman's Memorial

The City Hotel Fire, 1914

Stores & Businesses

Rice's Department Store

When There Were Christmas Train Rides In Cameron Park

Murder & Mayhem

The Youngest Man To Be Executed In Pa - Sunbury, 1900

Floods & Other Disasters
A General Overview  Of Floods In The Susquehanna River Valley
1936    1972
When Sunbury Got A Flood Wall
How A Hurricane Became Central Pennsylvania's Worst Natural Disaster - 1972

Hail The Size Of Lemons, 1910

The City Hotel Fire, 1914

Clubs, Fraternities, Organizations

Panoramic View From Blue Hill, Showing The North & West Branches Of The Susquehanna River

See Full Size Scan here
When The Covered Bridge Burned

Maps

1772 - Original Layout Of Sunbury

Pennsylvania's Great HighWay and Tributary Lines 1850

Western front 1778

Map of the Sunbury Erie Railroad & It's Connections

1874 map of Northumberland County PA

Sunbury, 1857

Sanborn Fire Maps

1887  1896  1901

1907  1912  1918

When the Street Names Changed in Sunbury

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Sunbury Today

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Have you ever had peanut butter, bacon, & BBQ sauce on a cheesesteak?
The Sunbury Sandwich Stroll 2019

Tales Of Sunbury Blog
https://talesofsunbury.com/

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More Local History & Stories From Surrounding Local Towns

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