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1. Sponsor Listing (SCHS-JASL): (Journal Advertising); Sponsor Listing; Created on 15 August 2016
2. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); ... 6615 Route 97 in Narrowsburg, is not operating on a normal schedule at this time, the County is entering into an operating contract with the Barryville-based nonprofit The Delaware Company to offer programs ...; Created on 11 July 2021
3. Rockland: (Category); ... caught spying for the Hudson Bay Company. He also discovered a lead mine and supplied the white men with the lead they sorely needed for bullets. Although located near Tunis Lake, the whereabouts of this ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Lumberland: (Category); ... blue-stone quarries near Pond Eddy, followed in 1870 by the local firm of Decker, Kilgore & Company. Stone from these quarries left the Town via the D & H Canal on the New York side of the river and the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Forestburgh: (Category); ... d was well liked. When W. W. Gilman died he left three million dollars. George Gilman, brother of W. W. founded and renamed the A&P Company at the time coinciding with the spike driven opening the railro ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fallsburg: (Category); ... major American railroad company to be abandoned. Like the railroads, the resort industry in Sullivan County was also doomed by progress. With the development of air conditioners and the advancement ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. County History: (Category); ... This provided Jewish vacationers, unwelcome in many other resort areas, a place to spend their free time in the company of other Jews. Most notable among these early Jewish hoteliers were Selig and Malke ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc. ...: (Cochecton); The Cochecton Bridge Company was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York on April 7, 1817, naming as incorporators: William Tyler, Benjamin Conklin, Moses Thomas, Oliver H. ...; Created on 03 November 2011
9. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); ... archivist, officer, and a person to go to when a historical question comes upon. He will be greatly missed. The following is taken from a Smallwood-White Lake Fire Company posting on Facebook. ...; Created on 29 March 2020
10. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... the Hudson River Anthem, “ The River that Flows Both Ways”, which Pete Seeger liked so much he recorded twice with Rick accompanying him on the Grammy winning CD, “Tomorrow‘s Children”. You can read more ...; Created on 12 March 2020
11. John Conway Book Talk and Signing: (News); John Conway Book Talk and Book Signing March 18 6 PM COUNTY HISTORIAN HAS NEW BOOK “In Further Retrospect” Available Now BARRYVILLE—The non-profit history education group, The Delaware Company ...; Created on 11 March 2020
12. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... himself fully in community affairs. He was an active member of the fire department, serving as president of the fire company and as a fire commissioner. He was an officer of the South Fallsburg Hebrew ...; Created on 17 January 2016
13. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... rds. He smoked hash in the office and was the company's connection with the rockers who were starting to sell millions of records. Kornfeld had written maybe 30 hit singles, among them "Dead Man's Curv ...; Created on 04 January 2016
14. Monticello: (Thompson); ... Two brothers, Samuel F. Jones and John Patterson Jones, built Monticello. The turnpike company entrusted Samuel F. Jones to explore the vast forests west of the Mamakating valley to find the best route ...; Created on 26 December 2015
15. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... he found employment with Cities Service Company, the oil and gas concern that today operates under the name of Citco, as purchasing agent. In 1953, Pat and Bill were married and because of Bill’s ...; Created on 18 October 2014
16. The Fallsburgh Tunnel: (Fallsburg); ... causing serious problems for the railroad company. Throughout the spring of 1930, railroad workers worked at the tunnel below South Fallsburgh, relining the northern portal with a new ceiling of curved ...; Created on 25 November 2012
17. The Village of Narrowsburg: (Tusten); ... Bridge Company the right to erect the first bridge “across the Delaware River at the Narrows, in the Big Eddy,” and to collect tolls. This was a huge step forward for the small community. Quinlan, in his ...; Created on 20 October 2011
18. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... Tusten broke away and each became a town of its own. Tusten was one of the first areas in the county to be settled. The first settlement originated around 1757, founded by the Delaware Company under the ...; Created on 20 October 2011
19. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... and Swan's company store to Charles Lang's store. Following the Democratic administration of President Cleveland, the position again reverted to the Kiersted family until the death of John W. Kierste ...; Created on 29 September 2011
20. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello: (Thompson); SCHS Observer; November 9, 1964 "A blue-and-gold historical marker has been erected on the front lawn of the Intercounty Trust Company in the village of Monticello to mark the site of the first buildin ...; Created on 22 September 2011
21. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); ... rected in front of the Intercounty Trust Company in Monticello is still being made. It will mark the site of the Jones house, first buildeing in the village. The village will bear the expense." ...; Created on 22 September 2011
22. Old Mansion House: (Bethel); ... s a rendevous for automobilists and others looking for first-class accomodations. The hotel stock company scheme had died a-boiling, as it were, and the business men might profitably turn their attenti ...; Created on 15 September 2011
23. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... from the eight coal-burning boilers that powered the pumps to push crude oil through four six-inch pipes, part of the Standard Oil Company’s pipeline that fed crude oil from the western Pennsylvania oil ...; Created on 28 June 2011
24. D&H Canal: (General History); ... te fire that was to shape the industrial and domestic development of the city. The stock offered for sale that day was oversubscribed within a few hours, and the newly-formed Delaware & Hudson Canal Comp ...; Created on 04 June 2010
25. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... By 1995, after nearly four decades in the television business, the company which had begun in Sullivan County had experienced dramatic growth and operated 64 cable systems in 18 states employing more than ...; Created on 11 August 2007
26. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... Diane Wilson of Fallsburg. They have two children: Melissa, a teacher in the Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California and Erik, a co-captain of a Lear jet who flies for a charter company out of ...; Created on 01 June 2006
27. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... lso moved to the Roscoe farm to displace the cows in the old dairy barn. Later when the furniture business closed down, they operated the Cat Hollow Sand and Gravel Company. During this time, they had three ...; Created on 11 August 2003
28. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... be noted that her name appeared on the 1890 cover of the Milton Bradley & Company educational supply catalog as an accomplished graduate of Albany State College. Miss Cooke landed her ...; Created on 11 August 2001
29. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2001 Mary Edith Curtis In the 1750’s, land hungry residents of Connecticut formed the Delaware Company to move westward ...; Created on 11 August 2001
30. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); ... Omaha Beach, several weeks after D-Day, and in September joined the 120th Infantry Regiment in the Netherlands. By December 21, 1944, Currey was serving as a Sergeant in Company K, 120th Infantr ...; Created on 01 June 2000
31. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... and the following year was named President of the Rhulen Agency. The Agency steadily grew as did the family’s confidence to face greater challenges. In 1977 the family created the Frontier Insurance Company ...; Created on 11 August 1999
32. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... Stone Ridge and began working for the New York Telephone Company as an installer. In 1945 New York Telephone “transferred” Bill to Monticello. His transfer consisted of a ride from the Telephone Company ...; Created on 11 August 1998
33. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... whom next year he will celebrate sixty years of a devoted marriage in the company of three children, Edward, George and Lauren, nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The Judge’s ...; Created on 01 June 1998
34. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... Though he sued the Zeppelin Company, the litigation was lengthy and by the time he settled out of court, he just about broke even. His next dream was to fly the Atlantic in his own plane. He found a ...; Created on 11 August 1996

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