Clement's Park:

With the completion of the canals came new forms of amusement.  One of the first organized forms of entertainment in Sunbury was Sunday school picnics.  Youth would gather onto a boat or a flat with a team of horses and travel to a grove along the canal to visit and fellowship together.  In 1880 Ira T. Clement bought the land on the west side of the river, adjacent to the ferry landing and turned it into a picnic area known as Clement’s Park.  For five cents people could be transported across the river on a steamboat and spend the day or the evening enjoying the festivities.  There were three dance pavilions.  One was as large as 3000 square feet and another floated upon the Susquehanna.  There was also a toboggan slide and a baseball field.  Until 1900 Clement’s Park was the main form of summer entertainment.