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We would like to provide the residents of  Somerset  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Somerset Home page. The Somerset Home page provides as much information as possible on Somerset. Knowing Somerset’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Somerset’s Home page, you will also find Somerset’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Somerset has a population of 5888. 45.3% of Somerset’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.7 are female. 41% of Somerset is married and 58.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $107,814, and the average rent is $541. Household median income in Somerset is $44,263, and the individual median income is $27,024. Somerset’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.3%), Multiple(3.1%), Black(2.3%), Hispanic(1.9%), Asian(0.3%).


The Somerset County Courthouse and Uptown Somerset Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Somerset was a central stage for the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset. The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters in the nearby town of Berlin.


The Whiskey Rebellion was the first major test of the federal authority under the newly adopted U.S. Constitution and under President George Washington. A major fire on the afternoon of May 9, 1872, destroyed a significant portion of the town within just a few hours. On September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco and one of the four planes hijacked that day by al-Qaeda operatives, crashed near Shanksville, killing all 44 persons on board.


It is believed that hijackers intended to fly this plane into the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House. In July 2002, nine miners were trapped for 77 hours, 240 feet (73 m) underground, by flooding in the Quecreek coal mine, just outside Somerset. All nine miners were rescued. The Quecreek Mine Rescue was chronicled by journalists from around the world and was televised globally. Somerset Crater on Mars is named after Somerset.


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