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1. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); Museum Reopening Longtime County Attractions Reopen Thursday, July 08, 2021 An extraordinarily detailed scale model of the famed Roebling Aqueduct, which used to carry boats across the Delaware River, ...; Created on 11 July 2021
2. Delaware, the first state (2020-12-07) ...: (Events Calendar/Delaware, the first state); Delaware, the first state December 7, 1787 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Dover, Delaware ...; Created on 27 December 2015
3. Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton (2019-12-26) ...: (Events Calendar/Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton); Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton December 26, 1776 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Trenton, New Jersey ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Rockland: (Category); ... of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc river basins. This region was the borderland between the Iroquois nations to the North and the Algonquin of the South. The Lenni-Lenapes, a branch of the Delaware tribes, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... was known as the D and H Canal because it traveled between the Delaware and the Hudson Rivers. It carried coal from Pennsylvania to the people in New York City. The first canal boats loaded with coal arrived ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Lumberland: (Category); ... what is now the Town of Deerpark in Orange County, on the south and west by the Delaware River, on the on the north-west by Delaware County and on the north-east by what is now the Towns of Rockland and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Highland: (Category); ... part of the county along the Delaware River. The Town of Highland was named after the geography of its land. the "highlands" between the Delaware River and the Mongaup river rises to 1,300 feet in som ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Fremont: (Category); ... by blazed trees or crossed the Delaware, passed over a road on the Pennsylvania side to Cochecton and then to Liberty by way of Bethel. This gives an indication of this man’s interest in public affairs. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. 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
10. Delaware ...: (Category); The Information in the listed Delaware Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. County History: (Category); ... that the tribe ultimately controlled a land mass that encompassed from what is today upstate New York to the state of Delaware. They called this land Lenapehoking, or “land of the Lenape.” The tribe ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Cochecton: (Category); ... the Delaware River in either 1638 or 1639 where the hamlet of Cochecton presently exists. Cochecton’s fertile flats (“Cushetunk” as it was called by the Indians meaning “low lands”) were abounding in ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Callicoon: (Category); ... none of whom were willing to construct roads. According to one old account, there was but a solid wall of forest trees and laurel and rhododendron shrubs from what is now White Sulphur Springs to the Delaware ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. 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
15. High School Yearbook Request: (Announcements); ... Allan Wolkoff, historian for the Town of Thompson, donated his collection of Monticello high School yearbooks and the Callicoon Library donated their duplicate copies of the Delaware Valley High School ...; Created on 21 February 2017
16. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... into the upper Beaverkill Valley wilderness. Their survival depended on subsistence farming, lumber rafted down the river to urban markets along the Delaware River and hauling hemlock bark to the large ...; Created on 17 January 2016
17. Monticello: (Thompson); The Village of Monticello On March 20, 1801, an act was passed authorizing the building of a new turnpike road from the Hudson River to the Delaware through what was then Ulster and Orange Counties. ...; Created on 26 December 2015
18. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... the WhiteLake area in conjunction with Sullivan County Renaissance program. Both Bill and Pat have also volunteered at FortDelawareMuseum, the Mongaup Valley Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary and on ...; Created on 18 October 2014
19. John B. (Jack) Niflot: (History Preserver); ... and preserving the history and heritage of the Upper Delaware Valley is best exemplified by his co-founding of the Basket Historical Society in 1980, establishing its museum in Long Eddy and publishing/editing ...; Created on 25 November 2013
20. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... o Revolutionary War battles were fought on its soil. Honoring the brave patriots that fought and died on the hillside overlooking the Delaware River at Minisink Ford has been an annual observance. The cerem ...; Created on 04 April 2012
21. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... area, tanneries, lumber and agricultural industry. A saw mill was operated just upstream of the Bridge in the late 1800's. In 1882 one of the few Hex murders on record in the Upper Delaware Valley wa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
22. The Hamlet of Beaver Brook: (Tusten); ... the nearby brook which runs nearly due south into the Delaware River. ...; Created on 20 October 2011
23. The Village of Narrowsburg: (Tusten); The village of Narrowsburg is located within the Town of Tusten. Benjamin Homan, a companion of the noted Indian fighter Tom Quick, settled near the big eddy around 1763. Most of the places along the Delaware ...; Created on 20 October 2011
24. 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
25. Civilian Conservation Corps: (Tusten); October 6, 1933; Delaware Valley News "It looks very much as it Narrowsburgh would have a Civilian Conservation Corps camp located at the Ten Mile River Boy Scout Foundation. Forest rangers have visite ...; Created on 07 October 2011
26. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); The morning of February 17th, 1936, has dawned along the Delaware Valley with relatively mild temperatures as several hundred people make their way along State Route Three-A below Cochecton to witness ...; Created on 28 June 2011
27. D&H Canal: (General History); The D & H Canal: An Engineering and Entrepreneurial Challenge Excerpted from D&H Canal Historical Society Website. Pictures: Taken from the SCHS Archives The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile, ...; Created on 04 June 2010
28. Old Town Cochecton Cemetery: (Cochecton); LOCATION: rOUTE 97, Cochecton, across from Old Cochecton-Newburgh Turnpike on banks of the Delaware River across tracks FAMILY: Heirsville: Porr Family: Calkins Family Information on burials in this ...; Created on 03 June 2010
29. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... towns, beginning with Bethel and ending with Tusten. (Cochecton and Delaware were combined into one chapter.) He writes in detail and with affection for the men and women who lived in a particular town ...; Created on 11 August 2006
30. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2005 Daniel Skinner Lord High Admiral of the Delaware When the pioneers first entered the lower Delaware valley, they found a land covered ...; Created on 11 August 2005
31. 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
32. 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
33. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... impressive artistic talents. He left behind a diverse legacy which includes Fort Delaware, the official seal of the Sullivan County Community College and a reinvigorated Historical Society. ...; Created on 11 August 1997
34. Delaware ...: (Tags); Delaware ...; Created on 26 December 2015
35. Delaware ...: (Article Category tagged with: Delaware); 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
36. Delaware ...: (Article Category tagged with: Delaware); The Information in the listed Delaware Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 26 December 2015

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