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1. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); ... sits inside the D&H Canal Interpretive Center in Summitville. Monticello, NY – Marking the end of pandemic-related closures, the Sullivan County Cultural Center in Hurleyville and the Delaware & Hudson ...; Created on 11 July 2021
2. Rockland: (Category); ... center of Livingston Manor. The Village was named after Dr. Edward Livingston who lived in his manor house on upper Main Street where the present firehouse is located. With the influx of new settlers there ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Fremont: (Category); ... This was followed by another road to Fremont Center. This I assume passed through Obernburg past the Smith home mentioned early in this article. In 1849 the tannery business started in Fremont when ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Fallsburg: (Category); ... Woodbourne by Mr. Austin Strong. Mr. Strong went into partnership with Medad T. Morss who later became its sole proprietor. The tannery would be the center of life in the village for 35 years until it ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Delaware: (Category); ... renamed the smaller upstream village of Callicoon with the new name of Callicoon Center. The coming of the railroad had a huge impact on the area, bringing German immigrant farmers to populate the Be ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. County History: (Category); ... burgeoning bluestone industry in the river valley, which had until then been utilizing the canal to ship stone to New York City for curbs, sidewalks and foundations. When the center of the county ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Cochecton: (Category); ... on. During the mid-l9th century leather tanning was an active industry in Sullivan County and the site of one of the larger tanneries was in Stevensburgh (Cochecton Center), constructed in 1840 by Alfred ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Callicoon: (Category); ... was taught by Mary Hunt in a house owned by Henry Cannon. A Saw mill was built in Callicoon Center in 1848 by a settler named Williams. It was followed by a store that Robert M. Grant set up in 1849 ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Fremont Center Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery ...: (Fremont); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
10. Workman’s Circle Brotherhood of Centerville ...: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Goodwin road, Centerville Station, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
11. Woodbury Reh. Center Cemetery ...: (Fallsburg); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
12. Woodbourne Reh. Center Cemetery ...: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Located on Woodbourne Prison Grounds, Riverside Drive, Woodbourne, NY. Permission from prison officials is needed in order to visit. AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
13. Fallsburg Hebrew Asso & Congregation Anshe Centerville ...: (Fallsburg); AKA: Glen Wild Cemetery; Created on 03 June 2010
14. CochectonCenter Cemetery ...: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Route 52 AKA: FAMILY: First Cemetery. Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
15. Callicoon Center Cemetery ...: (Callicoon); LOCATION: Hessinger Road, Callicoon Center, NY FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY AKA: REF: 1930 by GAB NOTES: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
16. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... classrooms and run outside to witness the passage of an airplane overhead. South Fallsburg had no elementary school building when Harold started school. He attended several grades in the community center. ...; Created on 17 January 2016
17. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... i Pop Festival. For Woodstock, he was coordinator of campgrounds. "They wanted me to design a sound system for 50,000 or so people," said Markoff, who owned the only stereo store in Middletown, the Audio ...; Created on 04 January 2016
18. Monticello: (Thompson); ... own from that nucleus into the Monticello of today. The village was incorporated on April 20, 1830. We noted that Monticello was fortunate that the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike ran through its center. Howe ...; Created on 26 December 2015
19. Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... use. This year (1984) the village has moved into its first permanent home, next to the library, on Center Street in the "Old Firehouse". Reprinted from Village Tribute, Sunday, May 6, 1984, Menges' L ...; Created on 26 December 2015
20. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); ... of South Fallsburg. Hurleyville was originally settled by William Hurley. The local economy was originally centered on dairy farming, but gradually became part of the Catskills Borscht Belt resort area. ...; Created on 26 December 2015
21. General Store: (Now Showing); The General Store was the commercial center of town and the primary place you would sell/purchase goods and collect your mail. Much like a Walmart of the 1800's, just about anything you needed was availabl ...; Created on 18 December 2014
22. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... town’s youth and adult basketball program and wound up serving on the Bethel Youth Board for the next twenty years. Other organizations in which Bill has been involved are the Bethel Lions Club, BethelLiteracyCenter, ...; Created on 18 October 2014
23. VOLUNTEERS WANTED: (Announcements); VOLUNTEERS WANTED Do you like history? Do you like genealogy? The Sullivan County Historical Society in Hurleyville (the Museum and Research Center) is looking for volunteers in many areas, especially ...; Created on 28 September 2014
24. Woodstock: (Now Showing); ... ct to the festival, and its later reincarnation into the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, that is now explored by the new exhibit being assembled at the Sullivan County Museum. The land on which the st ...; Created on 12 April 2013
25. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... ing pains, without a permanent campus and the center of bitter political debates, which led many in the community to question the college's overall purpose. In pressing its role for the educational need ...; Created on 04 April 2012
26. Darling Tales: (Callicoon); ... ohn told the crowd of a yoke of oxen he once had and how he took them to plow in a stumpy field. During the plowing the plow caught a hardwood stump squarely in the center, split it open, took the plow ...; Created on 28 December 2011
27. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... that collapsed under a wagon load of hemlock on its way to a nearby tannery. The construction of the Bridge by Philip Henry Hembdt was unique in that the temporary wood framework, known as centering, ...; Created on 03 November 2011
28. History of Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... use. This year (1984) the village has moved into its first permanent home, next to the library, on Center Street in the "Old Firehouse". Reprinted from Village Tribute, Sunday, May 6, 1984, Menges' L ...; Created on 03 November 2011
29. Old Mansion House: (Bethel); September 15, 1911 Liberty Register "There is much discussion of a plan to rehabiliate the Old Mansion House at Monticello, and again make it the center of life in that village. "The upper floo ...; Created on 15 September 2011
30. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... separate gangs of pipeline workers held a “reception” resulting in the hotel’s barroom being in need of repairs. At Cochecton Center, two pipeline workers were helping themselves to the apples in Peter ...; Created on 28 June 2011
31. Single Grave: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Wm Keesler's property (1979) Along old road to Cochecton Center: discontinued about 1970. AKa: FAMILY: Single grave of woman to be buried in winter; unable to make it uphill so burie ...; Created on 03 June 2010
32. Laurel Cemetery: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Cochecton Center, NY - New Cemetery AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
33. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... arts and entertainment center. Visitors come from around the world both to enjoy the arts, but also to celebrate Woodstock’s musical legacy. Named Bethel Woods, the complex has just completed its second ...; Created on 11 August 2007
34. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... Antique Center. Then he started his quest of buying and restoring the houses on “The Hill” as they became available. Across from his home, he created a wooded area with mowed lawns and ...; Created on 11 August 2007
35. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... of Commerce, a founding member of the Liberty Museum and Arts Center and a member of the Clarence Hoyt Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9217. In June of 1995 he was named “Citizen of the Year” by the Liberty ...; Created on 11 August 2007
36. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... er remind us of the days of glory when smoke plumes rose over rattling coaches, when iron men piloted panting steamers over the mountains, when the railroad depot was the business center of town, when ...; Created on 11 August 2005
37. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... e says she always enjoyed group sports more than individual competition and after the Olympics she became the center for the Long Island Ducklings, a women's traveling basketball team. One of their tr ...; Created on 11 August 2003
38. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... house in Hurleyville for the Sullivan County Museum, Art and Cultural Center. In 1974 he was named Sullivan County Historian after the death of the then County Historian, Manville B. Wakefield. Bill held ...; Created on 11 August 1998
39. Frederick A. Cooke: (History Makers); ... of the assertion of my achievement.” In 1993 an International Symposium on Cook was held at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University with polar explorers and scholars from six nations participating. ...; Created on 01 June 1994
40. World War I Comes to the Museum June 16th: (Past Exhibits); ... Sullivan County Museum and Cultural Center, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville. The exhibition and performance will look back at World War I and the Sullivan County families who had relatives that served. The ...; Created on 09 June 2018

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