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Published for the Bicentennial of Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1972. Contents:

Chapter I: Beginnings

Chapter II: A Hub of Transportation; Early Roads; Taverns; River a Traffic Artery; Rafting Days; Canals; Steamboats; The Regetta; The Fery; Floods; The Railroad; Other Transportation; The Trolley Car; The Automobile; Air Transportation.

Chapter III: Municipal Development; The Courts; Sunbury Community Hospital; United States Postal System; Education.

Chapter IV: Industrial Development; Early Industries; Lumber; The Market; Sunbury Canal and Water Power Company; Water Company; Telegraph and Telephone; Thomas Edison's Experiment in Sunbury; Later Industry; Weid; Butter Krust; Rea and derick; Oldest Business; Keithan's; Newspapers; WKOK; Sunbury Banking.

Chapter V: The People of Sunbury; religious History; Churches; Municipal Organizations; The Fire Department; Public Library; Red Cross; Susquehanna Valley Tuberculosis and Health Society; Fraternal and Service Organizations; The Military; Recreation and Amusements; Sunbury Youth and Community Cnter; The Theatre; City Band; Gaskins Band; The Circus;Agricultural Fairs; Battalion Day; Cemeteries; Old Houses; Early Families.

Chapter VI. Reminiscences: Sunbury Down the Years.

Acknowledgments and Credits.

Many historical photographs throughout. Some maps. Table of Contents. No index.
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