Editing North East, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Before 1650, the area was settled by the [[Eriez]], a relatively peaceful tribe; however, they were destroyed by the [[Seneca people|Seneca]].<ref name="Official-history">{{Cite web |title=Location & History - North East Borough |url=https://www.northeastborough.com/about/}}</ref>

As part of the [[Erie Triangle]], it was only in 1792 that the locale became part of Pennsylvania. However, North East did not receive its first settlers until 1794, still, several years before the county (Erie) and township (North East) was organized. Originally the [[North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania|North East Township]] was called "Lower Greenfield" being downstream from [[Greenfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania|Greenfield Township]]. The first road was built in 1797 from present-day Freeport at the mouth of Sixteenmile Creek to present-day [[Colt Station]] now in Greenfield Township. That road was extended in 1798 to where French Creek forks (present-day [[Wattsburg, Pennsylvania|Wattsburg]]).<ref>{{harvnb|Whitman|1884|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nn_SWMpgrKgC&pg=PA729 729] }}</ref> In 1800 a road from the village of North East to Wattsburg was opened, it paralleled, but ran east of, the first one from Freeport.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Transportation Plan |title=Greenfield Township Comprehensive Plan |year=2002 |publisher=Greenfield Township, Erie County |page=5 |url=http://elibrary.pacounties.org/Documents/Erie_County/386;%20Greenfield%20Township/4204931008mcp.pdf }}</ref>

This first recorded settler of the region was Joseph Shadduck from Brattleboro, Vermont in 1795.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Child |first=Hamilton |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.gazetteerbusines04chil |title=Gazetteer and business directory of Erie County, Pa., for 1873-4. |year=1873}}</ref> The land that the borough occupies was originally purchased from the state by a Mr. Brown, who sold it to a land speculator, a Mr. Gibson. William Dundas was the first to settle in the borough area, whose property was later sold in 1806 to Henry Burgett, who turned the dwelling into a tavern. This property, prior to the sale, is claimed to be the site of the first sacrament to the Lord's Supper in Erie County on Sunday the 27th of September 1801. A more "pretentious" tavern was built in 1808 by Lemuel Brown, located where the Haynes House is today.<ref name="First-things">{{Cite book |last1=Bates |first1=Samuel P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCEMAAAAYAAJ |title=History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |last2=Witham |first2=Benjarmin |publisher=Warner, Beer's & Co |year=1884}}</ref>

Originally called Burgettstown, the name was changed in 1819 to Gibsonville until it was incorporated in 1834 as the borough of North East.<ref name="First-things" />

In 1798 the first school was formed.<ref name="Official-history" /><ref name="First-things" />

Its first high school, [[Lake Shore Seminary]], was established in 1870 as a collaborative effort of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. In 1884, a fire destroyed two-thirds of the town's business district.<ref>{{Cite web| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: North East Historic District |last1=Sands |first1=Patricia A. |last2=Sisson |first2=William | date=August 1989 | url = {{NRHP-PA|H096497_01H.pdf}} | access-date = November 5, 2018 }}</ref>

In 1983, [[Short's Hotel]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. In 1990 the entire old [[North East Historic District|central business district]] was added to the register.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>