Editing Northumberland, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Priestley House Front 2.jpg|thumb|[[Joseph Priestley House]], a [[National Historic Landmark]] in Northumberland]]
A brewer named [[Reuben Haines]], a native of [[Philadelphia]], founded the town of Northumberland in 1772, attempting to set it up as an English village. The land that became Northumberland was purchased from the [[Iroquois]] in the first [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]] in 1768, and the village was laid out in 1772. During the [[American Revolution]], Northumberland was evacuated during the [[Big Runaway]] in 1778, and only finally resettled in 1784.<ref name="nrhpdinv">"[https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H086726_01H.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration: Northumberland Historic District]".</ref>

Northumberland was the American home of 18th-century British [[theologian]], [[English Dissenters|Dissenting]] [[clergyman]], [[Natural philosophy|natural philosopher]], educator, and [[Political philosophy|political theorist]] [[Joseph Priestley]] (1733&ndash;1804) from 1794 until his death in 1804. The [[Joseph Priestley House]] still stands on Priestley Avenue and is a [[National Historic Landmark]] on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) and a museum administered by the [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]]. There is one other property in the borough on the NRHP: the [[Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library]], built by a great-grandson of Joseph Priestley. Much of the borough is part of the [[Northumberland Historic District]], which is also on the NRHP.