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1. Additional Hours (SCHSIRR1AH): (Request Research); Add Additional Hours to Extend Research time; Created on 03 January 2016
2. Rockland: (Category); ... to the Indian landlords by buying their interest in the land. The entire tract of land comprised parts of Delaware, Greene, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. Hardenburgh made his purchase from Nanismos, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Mamakating: (Category); ... According to historical records Johanis Hardenburgh, a resident of Kingston, N.Y., purchased a large tract of land known as the Hardenburgh patent. This land and another patent known as the Minisink patent ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Forestburgh: (Category); ... d connecting east and west. In 1982, a log cabin was discoverred within an existing home, when the recently purchased farmhouse was being renovated. It's age was traced to 1834, the origin believed ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Fallsburg: (Category); ... like New Hope Community, Crystal Run Village and the Dynamic Youth Center purchased many of the vacated hotels in the Town of Fallsburg. These organizations provide valuable jobs to area residents. Meditation ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Delaware: (Category); A Brief History of the Town of Delaware By Mary E. Curtis Practically all of the land now within the boundaries of the Town of Delaware was a part of the tract of the Hardenburgh patent purchased ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. County History: (Category); ... with the Europeans anxious to purchase land, a concept totally alien to the Lenape, prompted the tribe to look elsewhere to live. By 1730, the Lenape people had left the region for good. Soon the area ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Cochecton: (Category); ... shad that ran in great schools in the Delaware River compounded its importance. The Tylers were among the original settlers and previous writings show that the Tylers purchased land from Daniel Skinner, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Emma Cooke Chase ...: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2001 Emma Cooke Chase (1869 – 1944) Educator & Child Advocate An Oneonta, New York native, Emma ...; Created on 11 August 2001
10. John Conway Book Talk and Signing: (News); ... in the Times Herald-Record and since 2004 every Friday in the Sullivan County Democrat. “In Further Retrospect” will be available for purchase. Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville at 6 p.m. ...; Created on 11 March 2020
11. New Book Available at the Gift Shop about Judge Cooke: (Announcements); ... Sullivan County Historical Society at the Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville has an entire room devoted to Judge Lawrence Cooke available for the public to visit. The book is available for purchase ...; Created on 04 August 2017
12. Please donate to help us preserve the Republican Watchman!: (Announcements); ... help in preserving this collection and also making this collection of newspapers usable for researchers. We would like to purchase archival books at a cost of approximately $21 each for proper storage ...; Created on 14 September 2016
13. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... Railway purchased farms and large tracts of land. Among these railroad dignitaries was Bradford Gilbert, the noted architect, who designed many of the stone and rustic railroad station houses along the ...; Created on 17 January 2016
14. Monticello: (Thompson); ... eers and settlements in the Town of Thompson, but they were not permanent. In 1794, Mr. Thompson, a native from Litchfield County, Connecticut, purchased between twenty and thirty thousand acres in the ...; Created on 26 December 2015
15. Frederick A. Cook Exhibit: (Pictures); ... ed a Presidential pardon for a federal conviction in 1923 involving Texas oil properties, which resulted in immense wealth for those who purchased them as sheriff's sale while Cook was in prison. Cook ...; Created on 18 December 2015
16. Frederick A. Cook: (Now Showing); ... ed a Presidential pardon for a federal conviction in 1923 involving Texas oil properties, which resulted in immense wealth for those who purchased them as sheriff's sale while Cook was in prison. Cook ...; Created on 18 December 2015
17. 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
18. Grist Mill Burned Saturday: (Callicoon); ... work by frozen hydrants. Very little wind was blowing at the time and this probably saved the village from a much more serious conflagration. “The mill was erected about 1858 and was purchased by ...; Created on 06 March 2012
19. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... to preserve the Bridge and its surroundings their efforts were rewarded with the purchase of over four acres of land on the downstream of the Bridge. By the summer of 1976, the Sullivan County Departmen ...; Created on 03 November 2011
20. Salmon Steele: (Rockland); ... in the 19th century. Salmon Steele, like so many other early migrants into the area during this era, began as a tenant on land owned by the aristocratic Livingston family. In 1848, Steele purchased lots ...; Created on 07 October 2011
21. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello: (Thompson); ... and erect similar signs. The markers are purchased at a cost of $45, less pole. The incentive for the marker in Monticello was supplied by Mrs. W.G. Durland, Museum Curator, who arranged the matter with vi ...; Created on 22 September 2011
22. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); ... m Tyrell also offered his servies in the cherchez l'ensign, but to no avail. Finally he declared the sign to be probably stolen and authorized the Society to purchase a new marker. "Early in July, 1 ...; Created on 22 September 2011
23. Salmon Steele and the Morsston Tannery: (Rockland); ... in the 19th century. Salmon Steele, like so many other early migrants into the area during this era, began as a tenant on land owned by the aristocratic Livingston family. In 1848, Steele purchased lots ...; Created on 16 August 2011
24. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... be located approximately every thirty miles. One mile below the little river community of Cochecton, where the mountain stream of Mitchell Creek enters the Delaware River valley, on the lands purchased ...; Created on 28 June 2011
25. D&H Canal: (General History); ... Hudson to New York City and up the river to Canada. The canal was conceived in 1823 by William and Maurice Wurts, two Philadelphia dry goods merchants who had purchased large tracts of land in northeastern ...; Created on 04 June 2010
26. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... they purchased the two hundred acre Hagan Farm outside of Monticello. Unfortunately, they soon realized that making a living from a Sullivan County farm was a difficult undertaking and to augment their ...; Created on 11 August 2008
27. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... home every fall for 32 years and as his parents Bill and Naomi grew older, he started to spend longer periods of time in his beloved Ferndale. He purchased his first house in 1981. It ...; Created on 11 August 2007
28. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... of the Bulge. The Gorowitz family, which also included two younger brothers, Alan and Maurice, moved to Sullivan County and purchased an old homestead in Ferndale. After being discharged ...; Created on 11 August 2007
29. 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
30. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... Fashions in Furniture in Liberty and because Rusty was such an avid fly fisherman moved to Roscoe where they purchased a dairy farm in a lovely location on the Beaverkill. In time the furniture business ...; Created on 11 August 2003
31. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... re unsuccessful. Finally, the family decided to leave the City and purchase a farm since that was a way of life Selig understood from his upbringing in the old country. Connecticut was their first choi ...; Created on 11 August 2002
32. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... years ago with some partners, they purchased Eddy Farm on the Delaware River above Port Jervis. The hotel traced its history back to the days of the rafters and with his strong commitment to historical ...; Created on 11 August 2002
33. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... purchased a small insurance agency which he called the Rhulen Insurance Agency. They also had a third child, Peter, who was born in Monticello. Walter’s sister Joan remembers their home in the 1930’s and ...; Created on 11 August 1999
34. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... Marjorie Chase Durland, a local girl with deep family roots in Monticello and the Town of Thompson. After many house moves in their first few years together, Bill and Sam (Marge) raised their four children ...; Created on 11 August 1998
35. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... was sold and the fort was built. It was in operation from 1957 to 1970, but never prospered financially. Fortunately, the county stepped in and purchased the fort which remains today an important county ...; Created on 11 August 1997
36. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... automobile, at a time when such a trip was practically unheard of. In the early 1920’s he was one of the pioneers in aerial photography and as an outgrowth of his interest in aviation he purchased in ...; Created on 11 August 1996
37. Marjorie Durland Smith: (History Preserver); ... of its directors, Emma C. Chase, an outstanding educator of the day, who as a District Superintendent of Schools was in charge of forty-nine schools and who was subsequently honored by having the elementary ...; Created on 11 August 1994

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