Editing Somerset, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Main Street Somerset Pa 2012.jpg|thumb|left|West Main Street]]
Somerset was a central stage for the [[Whiskey Rebellion]] of 1794.  Several rebellion leaders, including [[Herman Husband|Harmon Husband]], lived in Somerset.  The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters in the nearby town of Berlin.

A major fire on the afternoon of May 9, 1872, destroyed a significant portion of the town within just a few hours.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Great Fire of May 9, 1872 |newspaper=Somerset Herald |date=June 5, 1872 |page=1 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/pst_grange_ver01/data/sn84026409/00280776464/1872060501/0003.pdf |access-date=September 8, 2020}}</ref>

In July 2002, nine miners were trapped for 77 hours, {{convert|240|ft|m}} underground, by flooding in the Quecreek [[coal mine]], just outside Somerset.  All nine [[miner]]s were rescued.  The [[Quecreek Mine Rescue]] was chronicled by journalists from around the world and was televised globally.

[[List of craters on Mars: O–Z#S|Somerset Crater]] on [[Mars]] was named after the borough in 2006.

The [[Somerset County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Somerset County Courthouse]] and [[Uptown Somerset Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>