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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUNBURY , a See also:

borough and the See also:county seat of See also:Northumberland county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Susquehanna See also:river about 53 M. by See also:rail N. by E. of See also:Harrisburg. Pop. (190o), 981o, of whom 197 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 13,770. It is served by the Pennsylvania, the See also:Northern Central (controlled by the Pennsylvania) and the See also:Philadelphia & See also:Reading See also:railways. Sunbury's See also:principal See also:industry is the manufacture of See also:silk; the Pennsylvania railway has repair shops here. The See also:total value of the borough's factory products increased from $1,868,157 M 1900 to $2,592,829 in 1905, or 38.8%. The borough stands on the site of the old See also:Indian See also:village, See also:Shamokin, which was occupied by Delawares, Senecas and Tutelos, and was See also:long the most prominent Indian village in the See also:province; in 1747-1755 there was a Moravian See also:mission here. Owing to the strategic importance of the See also:place the provincial See also:government erected Fort See also:Augusta here in 1756; during the See also:War of See also:Independence many of the fugitives from the See also:Wyoming See also:Massacre came to this fort. Sunbury was first surveyed in 1772 and was incorporated as a borough in 1787. SUNBURY-ON-See also:THAMES, an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Uxbridge See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, 17 m. S.W. of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, See also:London, on a See also:branch of the London & See also:South Western railway. Pop.

(19o1), 4544• It is a favourite See also:

riverside resort and has grown considerably as a residential district. The See also:church of St See also:Mary, See also:Byzantine in See also:style, See also:dates from 1752. There are pumping See also:works and filtration beds for the See also:water-See also:supply of London. To the See also:north-See also:east is Kempton See also:Park, the See also:manor-See also:house of which was a royal See also:residence See also:early in the 14th See also:century. The park is famous for its See also:race-meetings, the principal fixture being the See also:Jubilee See also:Handicap; established in 1$87. The manor was granted by See also:Edward the See also:Confessor to See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, and passed in the 13th century to the see of London and in the 16th to the See also:Crown; but was not so held later than 1603.

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