Editing Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The first settler in the area currently known as Clarks Summit was William Clark. Clark had fought in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] during the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], and as payment for his military service, he was issued {{convert|800|acre|km2}} of Pennsylvania land by Congress. Because of disputes between Pennsylvania and Connecticut over the area of land that is now northern Pennsylvania (resulting in the [[Pennamite-Yankee War]]), the land deed issued to Clark was deemed invalid by the [[Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Luzerne County]] land grant office. Clark had no choice but to pay for the land himself. In March 1799, Clark and his three sons moved into a log cabin in the Abington wilderness, located on what is currently the [[Clarks Green, Pennsylvania|Clarks Green]] Cemetery. The first school was built in 1893 and was destroyed by fire two years later.<ref name="history">[http://www.clarkssummitboro.org/CSHistory.htm Clarks Summit Borough History and Background] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20020212031112/http://www.clarkssummitboro.org/CSHistory.htm |date=2002-02-12}}</ref> The village of Clarks Summit and an adjacent tract of land were incorporated into the Borough of Clarks Summit on August 30, 1911.

Clarks Summit is a location in the "[[Threat Level Midnight]]" episode of [[The Office (American TV series)|''The Office'']].