- 1. Thompson
- (Category)
- The first settlers to the Town of Thompson in 1749 were farmers David Gray and Z. Hatch, who put down roots in the vicinity of Dutch Pond. The Town of Thompson was named after William A. Thompson, a ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Fallsburg
- (Category)
- ... landowners. It also listed the principal manufacturers, merchants and farmers of each town. However, the Town of Fallsburg described in these three works was about to change. The trains had arrived. ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Delaware
- (Category)
- ... renamed the smaller upstream village of Callicoon with the new name of Callicoon Center. The coming of the railroad had a huge impact on the area, bringing German immigrant farmers to populate the Be ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. Cochecton
- (Category)
- ... ent needs for homeowners and farmers alike. The Town of Cochecton is comprised of 38.06 square miles making it the second smallest town in Sullivan County. While it has several small hamlets, it has ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 5. Elsie Winterberger
- (History Preserver)
- ... tanneries that developed in the region. When, during the middle to latter part of the nineteenth century, the Beaverkill section became a popular destination for visiting sportsmen, many of the farmers ...
- Created on 17 January 2016
- 6. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... e fashion of the day was to share and share alike. But the horde was starting to bother even a founder of the counterculture. As the Apollo 11 astronauts were strolling the Sea of Tranquility on July 2 ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 7. Sullivan County Long Beards
- (History Makers)
- ... the Long Beards provide individuals, local farmers and hunting clubs with conservation seed corn, clover blends and strut and rut mix to help sustain the wildlife over the winter season. Turkey Hunters ...
- Created on 18 October 2014
- 8. Patricia and William Burns
- (History Preserver)
- ... weekends during the summer selling produce at the Kauneonga Lake Farmer’s Market. They joined the Sullivan County Historical Society within a year of their move from New Jersey. To better understand ...
- Created on 18 October 2014
- 9. Woodstock
- (Now Showing)
- ... on his meadows to hear the legendary rock and folk music artists of the era. "I'm a farmer. I don't know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this..." reveals a different asp ...
- Created on 12 April 2013
- 10. From the Genealogist
- (Genealogy Department)
- ... farmer and worked in a tannery in Great Bend, Pa. Elizabeth is buried in the First Lutheran Church Cemetery in Jeffersonville. Their daughter Josephine, one of five children, was born in 1859 in Jeffersonville ...
- Created on 11 May 2012
- 11. Along the Neversink.....
- (Neversink)
- ... sterling old character. He raised a house full of children, 21 of them, was a good farmer, and drove cattle to Bull's Head, in Dutchess County. "Chester Gillett, a steadfast and solid farmer, ran a ci ...
- Created on 07 October 2011
- 12. Along the Neversink..
- (Neversink)
- Alvin Hall, big in every way except stature. And thus a neighborhood yarn. When the wild pigeons went to the Willowemoc swamps to nest in the spring, farmers along the Neversink made beds of buckwheat ...
- Created on 07 October 2011
- 13. The Oil Pipeline
- (General History)
- ... to be buried. Where the pipeline’s route traversed cultivated fields, the pipe needed to be buried deep enough so as not to be disturbed by the farmer’s plow. However, where the pipeline route sliced through ...
- Created on 28 June 2011
- 14. Max Yasgur
- (History Makers)
- ... Yasgur was a dairy farmer in Bethel who suddenly found himself in the middle of the controversy about a rock concert. By standing by his convictions and fighting for the youth with whom he did not always ...
- Created on 01 June 2004
- 15. Emma Cooke Chase
- (History Makers)
- ... a chord with the farmers and their wives to such an extent that it was agreed to continue to bring additional Cornell experts in, not for the teachers, but for the farmers and their wives. And so, Cornell ...
- Created on 11 August 2001
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