SUNBURY

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SUNBURY , a borough and the county seat of Northumberland county,

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

, U.S.A., on the Susquehanna river about 53 M. by rail N. by E. of Harrisburg. Pop. (190o), 981o, of whom 197 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 13,770. It is served by the

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

, the Northern Central (controlled by the Pennsylvania) and the Philadelphia & Reading railways. Sunbury's principal industry is the manufacture of silk; the Pennsylvania railway has repair shops here. The 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 Indian

village

VILLAGE

, Shamokin, which was occupied by Delawares, Senecas and Tutelos, and was long the most prominent Indian

village

VILLAGE

in the province; in 1747-1755 there was a Moravian mission here. Owing to the strategic importance of the place the provincial government erected Fort Augusta here in 1756; during the War of Independence many of the fugitives from the Wyoming Massacre came to this fort. Sunbury was first surveyed in 1772 and was incorporated as a borough in 1787.
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, an urban

district

DISTRICT

in the Uxbridge parliamentary division of

Middlesex

MIDDLESEX
MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST
EARL
- EARL
OF (1575-1645)

, England, 17 m. S.W. of St Paul's Cathedral, London, on a branch of the London & South Western railway. Pop. (19o1), 4544 It is a favourite riverside resort and has grown considerably as a residential

district

DISTRICT

. The church of St Mary, Byzantine in style,

dates

DATES

from 1752. There are pumping works and filtration beds for the water-

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

of London. To the north-east is Kempton
Park, the manor-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of which was a royal residence early in the 14th century. The park is famous for its race-meetings, the principal fixture being the

Jubilee

JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

Handicap; established in 1$87. The manor was granted by Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey, and passed in the 13th century to the see of London and in the 16th to the Crown; but was not so held later than 1603.

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