Sugar Notch was incorporated as a borough on April 3, 1867; it was named for the sugar maple trees surrounding the community. It was originally part of Hanover Township. The first burgess was Charles Parrish and the first council was composed of David Caird, Henry B. Plumb, Samuel Roberts, Adam Shiedel, and George Cyphers.
In 1869, the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad was constructed near the borough; it was used to transport coal. Sugar Notch was a popular coal mining community in the 1800s and 1900s. The current municipal building was built in 1921.
In 1946, following the end of World War II, the Roosevelt Memorial was dedicated within the borough; Eleanor Roosevelt attended the ceremony.
pears on the map as if certified in 1802 to Abraham Adams. It was tillable land ; was owned and worked by Andrew Shoemaker till about 1838. After several transfers it became the property of the L. & W.-B. Co. at Sugar Notch and their Shaft No. 9 and breaker stand on the edge of it close to the lower end of the Garrison lot No. 13 — second division. Close to this breaker stands the Lehigh Valley Railroad depot at Sugar Notch on the lower or west end of the Garrison lot. A half mile or more west in this
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Sugar Notch, now in 1885, has three mines and breakers within its boundaries — Warrior Run, near Plumbton, Sugar Notch No. 9 at Sugar Notch, and the Hanover Coal Company on the side of the Little Mountain between Warrior Run and Sugar Notch. This last is a slope, and tunnel, and shaft. The breaker was put in operation in 1883, and is of a capacity to prepare about eight hundred tons of coal per day. They ship by the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad over a siding to the Nanticoke R. R. near the line of land of
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Sugar Notch, 1867 to 1915
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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