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1. The Battle of Bunker Hill (2020-06-17) ...: (Events Calendar/The Battle of Bunker Hill); The Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Boston, Massachusetts ...; Created on 27 December 2015
2. Rockland: (Category); ... who massacred Lieutenant Graham and his men at Grahamsville in the battle of Chestnut Woods. The trail followed the Lackawack up the hills of Neversink, then across the town of Liberty, and down the Beaverkill ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Neversink: (Category); ... on hill roads and made a stopping place for a tired team with a load.” Radio was the way folks learned about the world. TV’s and satellite dishes were the stuff that make-believe was made of. Movies ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Mamakating: (Category); ... and Phillipsport where a lone stretch of the canal and the towpath, along with a dry-dock have been cleaned up. The county has posted signs explaining the various parts of the canal. There are several ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Highland: (Category); ... a monument stands on the wooded hill above the Delaware as s tribute to those brave soldiers who lost their lives. Interestingly, it was not until 43 years after the battle that the remains of those slai ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fremont: (Category); ... was over that route. The road built in 1833 from Liberty to the Delaware River opened up that portion near North Branch. A road known as the Cannon road was built over the hill to reach the Hankins settlement. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Fallsburg: (Category); ... on one hill and churches, a court house and other important structures on other rises in his town. Unfortunately, the Jones brothers of Monticello beat him to his dream and Mr. Miller returned to Orange ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Delaware: (Category); ... he boarding house and hotel business was fading from the scene. Hillsides that had provided the timber for development of Philadelphia, Trenton, and Easton, and hemlock bark to tan leather for Civil W ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Callicoon: (Category); ... of German lineage living in those three towns. In addition to the Germans, Callicoon attracted many Swiss and the name Swill hill is a clue to where many of them settled. The Town of Callicoon has ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Mutton Hill Burying Ground....cont ...: (Neversink); "...In the southwest section is a monument over 12 feet high on a three-foot base standing like a sentinel guarding his little encampment. On its northwest side, facing the road, is the following inscription; ...; Created on 27 October 2011
11. Mutton Hill Burying Ground...cont ...: (Neversink); "....But let us get back to our little burying ground which is bordered on two sides by dense woods, on the northwest by the Mutton Hill road, and on the southwest by broad sheep pastures. There are about ...; Created on 27 October 2011
12. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground ...: (Neversink); ... No. 3. We are now on Mutton Hill. Here we turn at a right angle again and start climbing at a steady but gradual grade.... Half a mile from the four corners we arrive at the very tip of Mutton Hill, abou ...; Created on 27 October 2011
13. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II ...: (Neversink); Reuben Cross' article written for the Liberty Register [August 11, 1938] concerning the history of the Mutton Hill Cemetery continues with the following; "...The Reynolds children numbered 15. One hundred ...; Created on 01 September 2011
14. Mutton Hill Burying Ground ...: (Neversink); Reuben Cross, writing for the Liberty Register in the August 11th, 1938 edition, described the Mutton Hill cemetery as follows; "....But let us get back to our little burying ground which is bordered ...; Created on 31 August 2011
15. Rock Hill Association Cemetery ...: (Thompson); REF: by CMO; Created on 03 June 2010
16. Mary Smith Hill Cemetery ...: (Rockland); REF: 1999 by JP & IB; Created on 03 June 2010
17. Mutton Hill Cemetery ...: (Neversink); AKA: Pound Cemetery REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
18. Laurel Hill Cemetery ...: (Liberty); LOCATION: Brisco Rd REF: WSS by Del V; Created on 03 June 2010
19. Hillside Cemetery ...: (Fallsburg); AKA: Lynch Family Cemetery REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
20. Greenhill Cemetery ...: (Callicoon); LOCATION: Off County Road 149 in Youngsville, NY FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: None REF: 1995 by CMO NOTES: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
21. Otto Hillig ...: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 1996 Otto Hillig (1874 ~ 1954) The following biographical sketch is taken from an article written by Mr. Delbert Van Etten, the Town ...; Created on 11 August 1996
22. Luna Cemetery: (Thompson); LOCATION: Rock Hill, Town fo Thompson FAMILY: AKA: REF: Notes: Grave Finder can be found at https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2290708 ...; Created on 05 August 2017
23. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... le, tops. All along they knew that Woodstock would draw far, far more. "I was pretty manipulative," Lang said. "The figure at Wallkill was 50,000, and we just stuck with it. I was planning on a quarter- ...; Created on 04 January 2016
24. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); ... Hill. Hurleyville was a station stop along the New York, Ontario & Western Railway (O&W). Due to mail getting mixed in with that of Hurley, New York, Hurleyville was temporarily renamed "Luzon Station" ...; Created on 26 December 2015
25. From the Genealogist: (Genealogy Department); Looking for information on Martin and Elizabeth Duttweiller who owned a farm on Swiss Hill Road in Jeffersonville, NY between 1859 to 1892. They were born in Switzerland in 1827 and 1824. Martin was a ...; Created on 11 May 2012
26. 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
27. Gas Station Slot Machine: (Liberty); ... of the Peace Fred Schillinger and lost the machine." ...; Created on 07 October 2011
28. Fulton Settlement: (Bethel); ... h his father and brothers, upon the lands now belonging to the family, about 45 years ago, when the hills and valleys of Sullivan were almost an unbroken wilderness. The neighborhood received at that tim ...; Created on 23 September 2011
29. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... of New York State, enter the Delaware River valley at Deposit and wind its way along the valley’s hillsides through Delaware and Sullivan counties, roughly following along the route of the Erie Railroad, ...; Created on 28 June 2011
30. D&H Canal: (General History); ... man-made waterway, an engineering feat of pre-industrial America that brought a new form of energy from the hills of Pennsylvania out to the Hudson River. From 1828 to 1898, mules pulled barges laden with ...; Created on 04 June 2010
31. Luna Cemetery: (Thompson); LOCATION: adjacent to Rock Hill Cemetery REF: by CMO ...; Created on 03 June 2010
32. Livingston Manor Methodist Episcopal Cemetery: (Rockland); AKA: Upper Westfield M.E. Society, Purvis M.E. Ch. Cemetery, Smith hill Cemetery REF: 1930 by GAB ...; Created on 03 June 2010
33. Vielie Cemetery: (Fallsburg); ... Cem Assoc REF: by W Hill ...; Created on 03 June 2010
34. Sullivan County Potter’s Field: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Tunnel Hill Road, behind Gray Cemetery AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
35. Single Grave: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Behind Fallsburg Central School. Standing on the left side of the school parking lot, look towards the Pines Ski Hill. You will see markings of construction road used ddurisng school landscaping ...; Created on 03 June 2010
36. First Dutch ReformedChurch Cemetery: (Fallsburg); AKA: Hillside Cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
37. Church of Immaculate Conception Cemetery: (Fallsburg); AKA: St. Mary’s Chapel Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
38. Single Grave: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Wm Keesler's property (1979) Along old road to Cochecton Center: discontinued about 1970. AKa: FAMILY: Single grave of woman to be buried in winter; unable to make it uphill so burie ...; Created on 03 June 2010
39. Roser Cemetery: (Callicoon); REF: Located on Route 149, Youngsvillle, NY, opposite Greenhill Cemetery. FAMILIES: Information on the burials in this cemetary is not yet available. AKA: Roser Family Cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
40. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... House Hill, along with his brothers, Paul and Alan. A graduate of Liberty High School, Class of 1949, he served in the U.S. Navy before going to California in 1954. He managed to come ...; Created on 11 August 2007
41. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... g of the era of timber rafting that lasted 150 years until the virgin trees within reach of the Delaware had been cut down and the hillsides had been denuded. At first the rafts began their voyage in t ...; Created on 11 August 2005
42. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... part of the State and the Erie whose tracks ran across the southern part. This area included a portion of the Catskills, the hills along the Chenango River and the farmland around the Finger Lakes. ...; Created on 11 August 2005
43. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... and sanitation and despite blustering rainstorms that turned the crowded hillside to mud, all was love. When it finally ended after 60 wet wonderful hours, Woodstock had gone into the national vocabulary ...; Created on 01 June 2004
44. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... to the main house, a handsome structure, which was renamed Grossinger's Terrace Hill House. At first, some neighbors were not happy to see the home of one of the country's respected families taken over ...; Created on 11 August 2002
45. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... then Highway Supervisor in Monticello. The road crew was working in Rock Hill in early spring when Mrs. Chase drove up on her way to Fallsburg. Mr. Coddington strongly advised her not to take that road ...; Created on 11 August 2001
46. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the Keller House, the District includes the Hillig Building, the Palm Garden, the stone bank building, the Liberty Methodist Church, ...; Created on 11 August 2000
47. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... Frontier has some 1,500 employees: about 650 in Rock Hill and the remainder in various offices across the country. Walter’s ability was widely appreciated. He was a director of the American Insurance Association, ...; Created on 11 August 1999

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