- 1. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon (2020-07-21)
- (Events Calendar/Neil Armstrong walks on the moon)
- Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon surface on July 21, 1969, becoming the first person to walk on the moon. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 2. County History
- (Category)
- ... in August of 1969, approximately 500,000 people from all over the country converged on a field in Bethel for a three-day event that was planned for a fraction of that number. Heavy rains and inadequate ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Bethel
- (Category)
- ... cial and economic life of the town. 1969 was a very important year in the life of our town. First, it saw the construction of the Sullivan County International Airport in the northeast section of White ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. High School Yearbook Request
- (Announcements)
- ... 1973, 1980, 1983, and any after 1987 or before 1947. Liberty High School 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970,1971,1972,1973,1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and any after 1980 ...
- Created on 21 February 2017
- 5. 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
- 6. Woodstock
- (Now Showing)
- The words of Max Yasgur, on whose farm the Woodstock Festival took place during three steamy August days during the summer of 1969, delighted the hundreds of thousands of young people who had gathered ...
- Created on 12 April 2013
- 7. 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
- 8. Stone Arch Bridge Saved For Posterity
- (General History)
- From the Observer; May 1969 "The Sullivan County Historical Society, long a champion for the rights of the handlaid bridge to live on in the history of the county, has succeeded in preserving the bridge ...
- Created on 22 September 2011
- 9. Alan Gerry
- (History Makers)
- ... 1996, Granite bought the property where the original Woodstock concert was held in 1969, along with several hundred surrounding acres; and Alan began the lengthy process of building an exceptionally attractive ...
- Created on 11 August 2007
- 10. Paul Gerry
- (History Preserver)
- ... of the 1969 Woodstock Festival also received worldwide distribution. For thirty years Paul served as the official photographer for the New York State Police and his photographs of accidents and fires were ...
- Created on 11 August 2007
- 11. Max Yasgur
- (History Makers)
- ... them for the winter. It was on that farm that the Woodstock festival was held. By 1969 Yasgur farms housed over 550 head of cattle. The Woodstock festival was created and organized ...
- Created on 01 June 2004
- 12. William Galbraith Smith
- (History Preserver)
- ... its preservation took Marge and Bill prisoners. They caught the history bug in the late 1960’s and Bill’s second life in Sullivan County had begun. In 1969 Bill became the first historian ...
- Created on 11 August 1998
- 13. Lawrence H. Cooke
- (History Makers)
- ... Supreme Court Judge in 1961 and in 1969, appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to the Appellate Division, Third Department. In 1972 occurred one of his rare defeats. When he ran for the New York State ...
- Created on 01 June 1998
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