Northumberland County Historical Society — Attraction in Sunbury

Northumberland county Historical Society sits on top of the remains of Fort Augusta, which was built as protection for colonists agains the french & their indian allies during the Seven Years War. later, it served as an ammerican base, that helped protect & aid settlers in the region against british & indian attacks in the Revolutionary War. The gunpowder magazine still stands. The hunter house is open to the public and is basically a museum that deals with erily settlements...

So, we drove the Tulpehocken Trail from Bethel, PA to Sunbury, PA (formerly Shamokin) and it was awesome. So we ended our journey here, where we saw a great collection of artifacts on Indian life, info about a 1742 evangelical crusade to the Indians, a huge model of Fort Augusta and available reprints of presentations that were well researched and written. The displays are very well done, and was very impressed with the...

Nice little museum, good people, you can see a lot of time and work has been put in to make the property and main building interesting. The woodwork and painting is very well done, and the artifacts in the museum are almost all completely legitimate items that were used during and in between wars in and around the...