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Indian Trails and Shamokin
(7000 BC-1763 AD)
Fort Augusta
(1756-1792)
Founding of Sunbury
(1772-1830)
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(1830-1912)
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Indian Trails and Shamokin
(7000 BC-1763 AD)
Fort Augusta
(1756-1792)
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(1772-1830)
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(1830-1912)
Contemporary
(1912-present)
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Bloody Spring Sign

In September of 1756, John Pattin, a bullock guard, was tending cattle outside of Fort Augusta when he decided to visit the nearby spring for a drink of water.

.Bloody Spring   While drinking, a group of natives who feared that they might be discovered too close to the fort, attacked.



Shot and scalped, his body fell into the spring and leaked into the waters, turning the stream into the color of blood. Since that time it has been named “Bloody Spring”.		 .Bloody Spring
  Photographs are courtesy of the Northumberland County Historical Society

 

 

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Michael Slease

Listen to Michael Slease, a member of the Fort Augusta Regiment, tell how he and his men pay tribute to the rich history surrounding Fort Augusta

 

Hear Katherine Faull, Professor of German and Humanities and chair of the Department of Foreign Language Programs at Bucknell University, speak of the Moravian settlement in Shamokin

 

 Katherine Faull
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