- 1. Neversink
- (Category)
- ... and Lackawack. We closed out the century in Neversink with two reservoirs feeding New York City water; a school district that allows our young people to be taught nearby; a country fair that has been ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Liberty
- (Category)
- ... then known as the Blue Mountain Country, they settled to the north west of the present Village of Liberty near to Revonah Lake, formerly known as the Broadhead Pond. Our early settlers came from Connecticut ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Fremont
- (Category)
- ... two years before the Erie railroad began. If the Miles tannery produced any leather before 1851, the hides must have come across country from Liberty and the D. & H. canal at Ellenville. The tannery ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. Forestburgh
- (Category)
- ... nting a popular activity with safety measures stressed. The town has an operating country store with post office attached; Inn at Lake Joseph; R.C. Church; Eden Brook Fish Hatchery and golf course, ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 5. Fallsburg
- (Category)
- ... thousands of New York City residents to escape the heat of the city and travel to the widely promoted mountains and enjoy our beautiful countryside and healthy environment. By the turn of the century, ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 6. County History
- (Category)
- ... gone by. Still, hardly an afternoon would pass that thousands of summer tourists wouldn’t take to the country roads for a stroll in the magnificent countryside. This era of prosperity lasted until ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 7. Cochecton
- (Category)
- ... outskirts of the hamlet along State Route 97. While the old country store and Riley's Ice Cream Parlor are mere memories of the recent past, still Cochecton is the home for "Cheers," a tavern that primar ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 8. Name
- (Contacts / Contacts)
- Name, Position, Miscellanous info
- Created on
- 9. William "Bill" Burns Memorial
- (News)
- ... . Due to the current crisis affecting our country there will be no services at this time. A celebration memorializing Bill's life will be held during the summer and will be announced on this page in ...
- Created on 29 March 2020
- 10. Alan Dampman May 26, 1926 - October 14, 2016
- (Society News)
- ... served Our Country in the US Navy during World War II; he was a member of the Youngsville Reformed Church; and enjoyed his work with the Sullivan County Historical Society. He had worked at the college ...
- Created on 16 October 2016
- 11. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... was tapped, a nerve, in this country. And everybody just came." The counterculture's biggest bash - it ultimately cost more than $2.4 million - was sponsored by four very different, and very young, men: ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 12. Genalogy September 2015
- (News)
- The summer has been quite busy at the Sullivan County Historical Society. Not only have we had many visitors from all over the country looking for their Sullivan County roots in our genealogy archives, ...
- Created on 03 September 2015
- 13. Allan Wayne Dampman
- (History Preserver)
- ... problem was solved when the Society, along with fellow country-wide volunteer organizations, relocated into the unused school building at Hurleyville which became the Sullivan county Museum, Art and Cultura ...
- Created on 04 April 2012
- 14. The Stone Arch Bridge
- (Cochecton)
- The Stone Arch Bridge, near Kenoza Lake was built in the 1870s by Swiss-German settlers who had brought their skills in stone masonry with them from the old country. It was built to replace a wooden bridge ...
- Created on 03 November 2011
- 15. The Hamlet of Lava
- (Tusten)
- ... were filled with stories of the molten lava being spewed over the countryside. Thus Lava was named after Italy's current catastrophe. The Lava post office was opened in January of 1886 and continued operati ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 16. The Village of Narrowsburg
- (Tusten)
- ... and freight. The railroad brought growth and prosperity to Narrowsburg. Many new stores, shops and other businesses sprang up in the community. Hotels were opened in town and country boarding houses thrived ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 17. The Town of Tusten
- (Tusten)
- ... ferry scow. The community that formed here was named Tusten, in honor of Colonel Benjamin Tusten, Jr., who had two claims to fame. He was among the first doctors in this country to introduce inoculation ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 18. Sullivan County Veterans
- (History Makers)
- ... The groups of people who have made important history in our county are the legion of men and women who have served in our armed forces. These citizens in uniform have made this country a haven for those ...
- Created on 11 August 2010
- 19. Veterans
- (History Preserver)
- ... who have served our country. ...
- Created on 11 August 2010
- 20. The Kutsher Family
- (History Makers)
- ... recently observed his or her 100th birthday. However, such longevity is not common among the local hotels. In fact, when in 2007 the Kutsher’s Country Club celebrated its 100th birthday, it was the only ...
- Created on 11 August 2008
- 21. Charlotte M. Osterhout
- (History Preserver)
- ... she brought to the preservation of County history. First and foremost, she radiated patience and warmth with people from all over the country who came to seek information about their ancestors. At that ...
- Created on 11 August 2008
- 22. Maurice Gerry
- (History Preserver)
- ... was the Ryan House on Ferndale-Loomis Road. It had been empty for 42 years. It took four years of trips back and forth across the country, but in the summer of 1985, he moved back for good and took ...
- Created on 11 August 2007
- 23. James Eldridge Quinlan
- (History Preserver)
- ... copies from a surviving copy of the original edition. These copies in turn were sold out in a few years to interested readers both locally and across the country. At present, arrangements are being made ...
- Created on 11 August 2006
- 24. Wilmer Sipple
- (History Preserver)
- ... War. At that time transportation in many parts of the country was still limited to slow moving canals and to roads which were often paralyzed by snow and mud. The result was a demand in these areas for ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
- 25. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge
- (History Makers)
- ... es. At that time she was also one of the top female broad jumpers in the country and attracting a lot of attention. Sullivan County Historian John Conway notes, "It didn't hurt that she was a tall slender, good-l ...
- Created on 11 August 2003
- 26. Jennie Grossinger
- (History Makers)
- ... of her new country. At first her energy was consumed in learning to survive and assimilate American ways, but later in life her imagination and strength of character enabled her to take the raw materials ...
- Created on 11 August 2002
- 27. Walter A. Rhulen
- (History Makers)
- ... School, Max met Eve Margolin, the daughter of Lewis and Anna Margolin, who owned the Kiamesha Lodge and Country Club which had evolved from a small farm and was located at the present site of the Hebrew ...
- Created on 11 August 1999
- 28. Lawrence H. Cooke
- (History Makers)
- ... He caddied at the golf course (35 cents for nine holes) which was located on the present site of Monticello High School and learned about growing vegetables and flowers. “Working in the garden was my country ...
- Created on 01 June 1998
- 29. Judge Robert C. Williams
- (History Makers)
- ... beginnings” is not a cliché. He has preserved the best virtues of that world, but through education and the school of life has continually broadened himself. He is given the best of himself to his country, ...
- Created on 11 August 1996
- 30. Otto Hillig
- (History Preserver)
- ... photographer, Mr. Hillig had a venturesome spirit. He owned one of the first automobiles in the county and in 1916 he and another local individual made a transcontinental trip across the country in an ...
- Created on 11 August 1996
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