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Written by County Historian John Conway

... white and yellow pine and hemlock (used in the tanning industry) by out-of-county concerns. A new value for land in Lumberland was established in 1868 when the Ulster firm of Mills & Cash opened large ...

... . The Town of Highland was a slow growing area. The primary industry during its early development was lumbering. The part of Highland along the Delaware River was one of the more active sites where timb ...

... man who had great ideas for the area. Although he fulfilled few of his goals, others later achieved them. Soon after the tanning industry was started in Sullivan County in 1831, a tannery was built at ...

... finding abundant wild turkey and naming the waterway "Kolikoonkill" (Turkey River). Not long after Ross's first settlement, the lumber rafting industry came into being. It began in 1764, when Daniel Skin ...

... was abuzz with industry. Timber was abundant and in great demand. As early as 1764, a man named Daniel Skinner conceived the idea of floating the tall, sturdy pine trees that grew along the banks of the ...

... on. During the mid-l9th century leather tanning was an active industry in Sullivan County and the site of one of the larger tanneries was in Stevensburgh (Cochecton Center), constructed in 1840 by Alfred ...

... nto the New York State Thruway, and it was right off Route 211, a major local thoroughfare. It has the essentials, electricity and water lines. The land was zoned for industry; among the permitted uses were ...

... rty buildings had been consumed along with a million dollars worth of property. Fortunately, no lives were lost as hundreds of horrified people watched, powerless to save one hundred years of growth and indus ...

... 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 ...

... grew at this same spot when vast amounts of lumber began the journey down the Delaware from the holding bank located here. For over a century the rafting industry was a successful enterprise throughout ...

... entitled “Trout Fishing in the Catskills” in which he discusses how trout fishing in these mountain streams can be traced back to the 1830’s and how it planted the seed of the county’s tourist industry. ...

... the Catskill resort industry, the Kutsher family has been chosen to receive the 2008 History Maker Award. The origin of the Kutsher’s Country Club parallels that of many establishments ...

... activities, Alan has received numerous awards and citations. In 1995 he received the Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership, the most prestigious award granted by the cable television industry; and ...

... settlements on the lower river. Not only were the timbers used to construct buildings, but they provided raw materials for a thriving shipbuilding industry. In time, however, the easily accessible stands ...

... e a better adjustment to school, but at the same time, became more aware of the exhaustion of her father who worked twelve hours a day for meager wages as a pressman in the garment industry. Sensing t ...

... and finally operations manager. Unfortunately, radio work had an uncertain future in a county where the main industry, tourism, was in decline and John took a job as Purchasing Agent ...

... A lawyer, he once wrote about the Rafting industry along the Delaware for the Sullivan County Democrat and about 1910 began what eventually became six volumes of memoirs – the editing of which is another ...

... Vice-President of the Insurance Federation of New York and was awarded the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 1994 PLUS 1 Award. During the years when the county’s traditional resort industry ...

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SCHS Observer - March 8, 1965 "One of the first houses built in what was then called Mongaup Mill, was the dwelling of Squire William Gillespie (my grandmother's father) built in 1800. In June 1807 ...

Pictures related to the D&H Canal. View Gallery

... settlements on the lower river. Not only were the timbers used to construct buildings, but they provided raw materials for a thriving shipbuilding industry. In time, however, the easily accessible stands ...

Family researchers from Tennesee visited the archival room at the Museum on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011, in search of Steele ancestry, a family who located in the northern portion of Sullivan County early ...

This Content is reposted from and is Property of Spectrum News During the 1940s and 1950s, the Catskills was one of the top tourist destinations in the world. In the summer months, it was home to more ...

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 ...

... grew at this same spot when vast amounts of lumber began the journey down the Delaware from the holding bank located here. For over a century the rafting industry was a successful enterprise throughout ...

Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 1999 Walter A. Rhulen (1931~1998) Early in this century, Max Rhulen found himself at age four in the strange world of New York ...

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