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Pennsylvania, United States
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Sunbury, city, seat (1772) of Northumberland county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Susquehanna River, 50 miles (80 km) north of Harrisburg. Located on the site of Shamokin, a Susquehanna Indian village, it was laid out in 1772 by John Lukens, surveyor general of Pennsylvania, and named for Sunbury, Middlesex, England. Fort Augusta, a settlers’ bulwark against Indian attacks, was built in 1756. In July 1883, Thomas Edison began operating in Sunbury the world’s first three-wire central electric-lighting station. The city is now an industrial and agricultural marketing centre, manufacturing textiles, metal products, and construction materials. Fabridam, an inflated fabric-tube dam ...(100 of 124 words)

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