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1. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... guests included Thurman Barker and Trinity, the Inner Urge Trio, mandolinist Joe Walsh, guitarist Grant Gordy, the Coal Town Rounders, Eastlande, MiZ (Mike Mizwinski),and Louie Setzer and the Appalachian ...; Created on 29 January 2020
2. Easter Sunday (2015-04-05) ...: (Events Calendar/Easter Sunday); Easter Sunday Visit http://calendarlabs.com/holidays/us/easter.php to know more about Easter Sunday. Like us on Facebook: http://fb.com/calendarlabs to get updates. ...; Created on 27 December 2015
3. Easter Sunday (2016-03-27) ...: (Events Calendar/Easter Sunday); Easter Sunday The Museum will be closed On Easter Sunday. ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Rockland: (Category); ... Beaverkill Trail and the Mary Smith Trail. The Sun Trail ran from Hudson River to the East Branch of the Delaware and was so called because an Indian or scout could start running at sun-up and reach the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... Another fort was built on the east side of the Bloomingburgh Mountain. It was called Fort Roosa and was built in 1731. It is still standing and is considered the oldest building in Sullivan County. Many ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Lumberland: (Category); A BIT OF LUMBERLAND HISTORY By an act of the State Legislature, Lumberland came into existence as a township on March 16, 1798, taking in an area that was bounded in the east by the Mongaup River and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. 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
8. Fallsburg: (Category); ... settlers established a small settlement near the ford while others continued north, crossing the Sheldrake Creek, and settleing on a ridge east of Kiameshia Lake and Lake Anawana. This settlement was primarily ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Delaware: (Category); ... ts of the Upper Delaware to the fast growing cities of Philadelphia, Trenton, and Easton. By 1922, when the last raft came into Martin Hermann's mill at Callicoon, the industry had dominated the area for ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. County History: (Category); ... e of Woodstock. Tourism continues to be the county’s primary industry, and while a few hotels, resembling, superficially at least, the resorts of the past, remain in operation, many visitors tod ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Callicoon: (Category); ... Jacob Quick, who chose a site on a small stream which empties onto the East Branch of the Delaware River at Jeffersonville. Quick cleared many fields and built a saw mill and sold grain, hay and lumber. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Bethel: (Category); ... cial and economic life of the town. 1969 was a very important year in the life of our town. First, it saw the construction of the Sullivan County International Airport in the northeast section of White ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. 1938 Hurricane: (Category); News from the 1938 Hurricane As the tropical storm named Ilene made landform east of New York City, the local media made many comparisons with this recent storm to the hurricane that struck the southern ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. East Cochecton Cemetery ...: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Old Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike at the corner of Cross Road AKA: FAMILY: Began in 1886. Information on burials in this cemetery is available at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, ...; Created on 03 June 2010
15. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... folks throughout the Northeast. The band features Grammy winner Rick Nestler on 12 string guitar and vocals, Dan Berger on harmonica, and Donna Nestler on banjolele and vocals. In 2017 The Skifflers ...; Created on 12 March 2020
16. The Borscht Belt: (Now Showing); ... a soup associated with immigrants from eastern Europe, was a euphemistic way of saying "Jewish". These resorts were a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews between the 1920s and the 1970s.[1] Beginnin ...; Created on 17 June 2016
17. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... ntion, however. "I saw these people throw golf clubs with nails in them," he said of the Chicago protesters. "I saw them throw excretion. The police, while I was there at least, showed remarkable restra ...; Created on 04 January 2016
18. Monticello: (Thompson); ... later that year with eleven men, and after putting up a temporary shelter east of Monticello, they commenced working on a sawmill. The work halted when the brothers returned to their New Lebanon, Connecticut, ...; Created on 26 December 2015
19. The Bungalows of Sullivan County: (Video); the bungalows of sullivan county - pt. 1 - concord rd and lanahan rd east and west of route 42 respectively in monticello, ny. gdYYtq5DQ2c ...; Created on 18 December 2015
20. Genealogy Volunteers Wanted: (Genealogy Department); ... placed on index cards and cross-referenced by spouse and parents so each obituary takes at least four cards. Now I have many, many cards to be filed and would welcome any volunteers willing to give a few ...; Created on 11 March 2015
21. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... raised from four to six feet and a new bridge was erected by Solon Chapin of Easton at a cost of $9,000.00. This bridge breasted the floods and ice gorges for over 40 years. In 1902, it was carried awa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
22. Mutton Hill Burying Ground....cont: (Neversink); ... "Henry Reynolds. Born at Peekskill, N.Y. 1742. Died at Neversink, N.Y. 1827. Mary Fowler, his wife. Born 1743. Died 1825." On the northeast side of this same monument are inscribed the words: "For loyal ...; Created on 27 October 2011
23. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); August 11, 1938, Liberty Register "In the northeastern section of Sullivan County and in the southwestern corner of the township of Neversink on the north bank of the famous trout stream from which i ...; Created on 27 October 2011
24. Salmon Steele: (Rockland); ... to the 1856 Sullivan County map, it appears to have been situated just to the east of what would later become known as the Morsston House, just a few hundred yards from the tannery site. ...; Created on 07 October 2011
25. Along the Neversink...: (Neversink); ... his tormentors - as fate would have it, one of the least offensive. Julia Quick was the neighborhood woman tramp. She went from house to house, washed, scrubbed, spun and wove, but she would never stay ...; Created on 07 October 2011
26. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II: (Neversink); ... overgrown with weeds and briars, while in the northeast section stands decaying a century old hemlock endangering these historical and fragile markers. For surely some day this tree is doomed to fall as ...; Created on 01 September 2011
27. Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... inscription; "Henry Reynolds. Born at Peeksville, N.Y. 1742. Died at Neversink, N.Y. 1827. Mary Fowler, his wife. Born 1743. died 1825." On the northeast side of this same monument are inscribed the word ...; Created on 31 August 2011
28. Salmon Steele and the Morsston Tannery: (Rockland); ... to the 1856 Sullivan County map, it appears to have been situated just to the east of what would later become known as the Morsston House, just a few hundred yards from the tannery site. ...; Created on 16 August 2011
29. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... poses particular problems due to its location. To the west lie the railroad tracks and Western Union’s telegraph line. To the east is the new State Highway. North of the smokestack stands the remaining ...; Created on 28 June 2011
30. D&H Canal: (General History); ... anthracite coal along river valleys from Honesdale in northeastern Pennsylvania to Eddyville on the Rondout Creek near the villages of Kingston and Rondout. From here, it was shipped on barges down the ...; Created on 04 June 2010
31. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... e main river below Hancock, but as demand for Catskill timber increased rafts were constructed up the east and west branches of the Delaware as far north as Margaretville. Quinlan's History of Sulli ...; Created on 11 August 2005
32. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... the Woodstock era is still a matter for debate. However, most people would probably at least agree that Woodstock helped define a generation and perhaps even the nation at the time. It certainly became ...; Created on 01 June 2004
33. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... m the New York Military Academy he was only 5' 9" and 165 pounds, though by this time he had become the top prep-school pole vaulter in the east with a vault of 13' 3" and earned an athletic scholarship to ...; Created on 11 August 2003
34. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... Eastern Europe, but her success in turn helped to transform the resort traditions of the very country which had welcomed her. Jennie was born on June 16, 1892 in the area known as Galatia in th ...; Created on 11 August 2002
35. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... idea to volunteer to transport children for hospitalization and doctors’ treatments. Emma chase was a member of the Methodist Church in Monticello, the Eastern Star and a founding director ...; Created on 11 August 2001
36. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... her home and she returned east in the 1970’s where some interesting projects were soon to be underway. The first one was the Bi-Centennial celebration. Mary’s background in advertising and writing proved ...; Created on 11 August 2001
37. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... the northeast where they received awards. He also raised beagles and a picture of two of his hounds which had won prizes in American Kennel Club championships appeared on the cover of a hunting magazine. ...; Created on 01 June 1998

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