- 1. Neversink
- (Category)
- ... reservoirs took their homesteads, their businesses, their farms, their cemeteries; their cherished swimming holes. Like all pioneers, folks picked up and moved on. Carl Carlsen remembers as a young boy ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Liberty
- (Category)
- ... As the land was cleared of the dense dark hemlock trees that these early settlers found, the area went through various stages of development. After the small farms were cleared, the tanneries were constructed. ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Delaware
- (Category)
- ... ore than 150 years. It drained the region of its native timber, and in the process changed it from a forested wilderness into a relatively civilized world of dairy farms and small communities. As the for ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. County History
- (Category)
- ... 200 hotels such as the Wawonda and Ye Lancashire Inn in Liberty, the White Sulphur Springs House, the Columbia Farms and Brophy’s Mountain House in Hurleyville, and the Mansion House and the Kenmore in ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 5. Callicoon
- (Category)
- ... Farm to the former Leo Hemmer and John Royce farms. Eventually, as others moved into the area, a church was built near the present curve in the road beyond John Bargfrede’s farm going toward Youngsville. ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 6. History of Farms ...
- (Now Showing)
- A current exhibit at the Sullivan County Historical Society is “A History of Sullivan County Farms” created by SCHS board member and volunteer, Fred Fries. The exhibits contain many farm artifacts ...
- Created on 13 October 2016
- 7. The Golden Age of The Catskills
- (Video)
- ... city wanted to come up and visit these little farms because they had fresh milk and they had eggs and fresh air,” Frishman said. That's what many Jewish immigrants did, purchasing inexpensive land in Sulliv ...
- Created on 06 July 2017
- 8. Elsie Winterberger
- (History Preserver)
- ... expanded their houses to accommodate seasonal guests. The farms of Abram Butler and Elsie Winterberger Willis Butler, Elsie’s grandfather and father, located along the banks of the Beaverkill, became destinations ...
- Created on 17 January 2016
- 9. Trunk Line 4
- (Rockland)
- ... of H Parks. "Both roads run through the Ackerly and McGrath farms returning to the present highway near the home of Augustus Mussman. "The change will make a more direct route and will eliminate fro ...
- Created on 23 September 2011
- 10. The Oil Pipeline
- (General History)
- ... the site of the station, was altered to accommodate thirty of the laborers. Throughout the fall, the once-vacant lot amidst the farms and woodlands of this rural valley began to take on a more ...
- Created on 28 June 2011
- 11. Daniel Skinner
- (History Makers)
- ... s for shipbuilders, stone slabs for Philadelphia sidewalks and charcoal, whisky or butter produced by Delaware and Sullivan county farms. However, in time primitive water driven sawmills were built alon ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
- 12. Wilmer Sipple
- (History Preserver)
- ... eight decades the railroad was an important part of county life. There was lumber to be transported, dairy products from the farms along its passage to be taken to market and blue stone from quarries and ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
- 13. Max Yasgur
- (History Makers)
- ... In 1948 Max bought two small farms in Bethel. He worked both the Maplewood farm and the Bethel farms until 1952 when he sold the Maplewood farm and moved the family to Bethel. Over the years he built up ...
- Created on 01 June 2004
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