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1. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan (2020-08-06): (Events Calendar/Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan); Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945 140,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the bombing in Hiroshima. Approximately 70,000 were killed on the day of the bombing and the others by ...; Created on 27 December 2015
2. Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan (2020-08-09): (Events Calendar/Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan); Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan August 9, 1945 80,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the bombing in Nagasaki. Approximately 40,000 were killed on the day of the bombing and the others by the ...; Created on 27 December 2015
3. Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg (2020-09-17): (Events Calendar/Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg); Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg September 17, 1862 - The bloodiest single day battle in American history with about 23,000 casualties. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Sharpsburg, Maryland ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Victory at Yorktown (2020-10-19): (Events Calendar/Victory at Yorktown); Victory at Yorktown October 19, 1781 - The British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders his 8,000 troops in Yorktown, Virginia, marking an end to the American Revolution. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com ...; Created on 27 December 2015
5. Rockland: (Category); ... Massachusetts and Connecticut visited the Big Beaverkill Flats and reported the existence of 10,000 acres of rich level land covered with pine, hemlock and laurel. For a number of years, only trappers ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Neversink: (Category); THE TOWN OF NEVERSINK By: Carol Smyth, Town of Neversink Historian In 1905, the Board of Water Supply was created. This was the beginning of plans to obtain 500,000,000 gallons per day of water from ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Mamakating: (Category); ... boots, saddles and other leather goods used by the Union Army. In fact Mamakating tanneries, in the year 1850, produced 29,000 hides of leather from five water and horse powered tanneries. The ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Lumberland: (Category); ... some 300,000 acres, as compared to about 32,270 acres today and took in what are now the Townships of Bethel, Callicoon, Cochecton, Delaware, Fremont, Highland, Liberty and Tusten. The population of ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. County History: (Category); ... “original people”) first arrived in this area over 11,000 years ago. While there is no indication exactly what the place was like at that time, oral tradition (the Lenape had no written language) holds ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Cochecton: (Category); ... claimed control of some 30,000 acres in the region. The Six Nation Indian Confederation also claimed ownership, as did the Lenape and the Delawares, who asserted their rights over the Six Nations. It is ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. The Great Monticello Fire - Rep-Watchman Aug 13th 1909: (Thompson); $1,000,000 FIRE IN MONTICELLO BUSINESS SECTION GUTTED Seventy-Four Places of Business and Residence Go Up in Smoke-—A Sorry Spectacle—But Monticello Will Build Again. The larger part of the business ...; Created on 16 February 2018
12. The Golden Age of The Catskills: (Video); ... of probably between 40,000 - 50,000," said John Conway, Sullivan County Historian. "We’ve seen estimates in terms of number of visitors throughout the summer from 750,000 to 2.5 million.” The era was know ...; Created on 06 July 2017
13. Alan Dampman May 26, 1926 - October 14, 2016: (Society News); ... O Box 247, Hurleyville, NY 12747. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Harris Funeral Home West Street at Buckley, Liberty, NY. 845-292-0001 or 845-439-5200 www.Harris-FH.com Read More ...; Created on 16 October 2016
14. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... us end to an era of naivete. Then there are those who say it was just a hell of a party. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 drew more than 450,000 people to a pasture in Sullivan County. ...; Created on 04 January 2016
15. The Rich History of one Catskills hotel: (Video); ... peak in the 1950's, there were nearly 1000 hotels operating in the region. In this video -- originally produced in 2007 on the 100th anniversary of the hotel -- Sullivan County Editor Barry Lewis intervie ...; Created on 18 December 2015
16. Concord Remembered: (Pictures); ... gest resort hotel boasting, 1,200 rooms., The Imperial Room, its night club, the largest in the world, could seat 3,000 people. Some described the hotel as a small city! The Concord Remembered ex ...; Created on 01 July 2015
17. Concord Remembered: (Past Exhibits); ... gest resort hotel boasting, 1,200 rooms., The Imperial Room, its night club, the largest in the world, could seat 3,000 people. Some described the hotel as a small city! The Concord Remembered ex ...; Created on 01 July 2015
18. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... stival. Over 15,000 people, eventually, came to enjoy the event that was held on the SCCC campus and at the Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville. In 1969, after a twenty year hiatus of non-activity, a d ...; Created on 04 April 2012
19. Fifteen Thousand Dollar Boarding House Sold: (Mamakating); March 7, 1912, Livingston Manor Times “J P Bennett, proprietor of the well known Shawangunk Mountain House at Highview, overlooking the village of Bloomingburgh, has sold the property for $15,000 ...; Created on 06 March 2012
20. Grist Mill Burned Saturday: (Callicoon); ... to $8,000 with only $2,500 insurance. “The fire supposed to be from spontaneous combustion or mice, was discovered about midnight in its early stages, but the firemen were seriously impeded in their ...; Created on 06 March 2012
21. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... In 1847, a new bridge known as the "Benton Bridge" was erected on a contract of $10,000.00 and opened for travel in the winter of 1848, but unfortunately in the coming spring, the New York span fell o ...; Created on 03 November 2011
22. Civilian Conservation Corps: (Tusten); ... the 12,000 acre tract on several different occasions of late and now decided that a winter camp will be located here. "Perhaps few places in the US are better suited for the establishment of a camp th ...; Created on 07 October 2011
23. Casino Burns: (Liberty); ... en insured for $15,000, but there has been no insurance on it for the past two or three years. "The building had a frontage of 100 feet and was 50 feet deep. All the contents were destroyed." ...; Created on 07 October 2011
24. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... were needed to be made. Western Union estimates that any disruption in service upon their trans-continental telegraph lines would result in loses amounting to $35,000 for each minute service is interrupted. ...; Created on 28 June 2011
25. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... in 2000 he was inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame. He has also received an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from Roger Williams University and in 2004 an Honorary Doctor of ...; Created on 11 August 2007
26. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... ngth and contained from 30,000 to 100,000 board feet of logs. Long heavy oars both front and back were used to steer the rafts. In addition, some rafts carried "top loads" of carefully selected oak timbe ...; Created on 11 August 2005
27. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... of investors, many of them English, purchased the property for $4,600,000 and renamed it the New York Ontario and Western Railway. The name was chosen deliberately. The words Ontario and Western were used ...; Created on 11 August 2005
28. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... learning that some people were gouging them for a simple glass of water, he opened his milk cooler and his faucets and gave the kids whatever he had. By the weekend an estimated 450,000 muddy, tired, but ...; Created on 01 June 2004
29. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... working as a bartender at night to support myself. People used to ask me how I managed it, but it wasn't that tough. I grew up on a dairy farm. Everything was easy after that." Alas, despite the est ...; Created on 11 August 2003
30. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... books published: “Trifles and Poppycock” (1984), a new edition of Stephen Crane’s “Sullivan County Tales and Sketches” (1995), “Retrospect” (1996) and “Dutch Schultz and His Lost Catskill Treasure” (2000). ...; Created on 11 August 2002
31. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2000 Delbert Van Etten Delbert Van Etten was born in 1927, attended Liberty schools and graduated from Liberty High School ...; Created on 11 August 2000
32. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2000 Francis S. Currey Congressional Medal of Honor - WWII Currey was born in Loch Sheldrake, New York, on June 29, 1925. After being orphaned ...; Created on 01 June 2000
33. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... for a Brighter Future, with a goal of $750,000. Today, the Endowment has assets of $1,700,000, and this year gave approximately $100,000 in scholarship aid to some one hundred students as well as contributing ...; Created on 11 August 1999
34. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... 1929 a ticket for $9,000 to be one of twenty-two passengers for a history making flight around the world on the German Graf Zeppelin. Unfortunately, his berth had been previously sold to someone else. ...; Created on 11 August 1996

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