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1. Walking Tour Kenoza Lake Cemetery (2017-06-17) ...: (Events Calendar/Walking Tour Kenoza Lake Cemetery); Walking Tour Kenoza Lake Cemetery 5 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ...; Created on 02 June 2017
2. Utah, the forty-fifth state (2020-01-04): (Events Calendar/Utah, the forty-fifth state); Utah, the forty-fifth state January 4, 1896 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Salt Lake City, Utah ...; Created on 27 December 2015
3. Rockland: (Category); ... caught spying for the Hudson Bay Company. He also discovered a lead mine and supplied the white men with the lead they sorely needed for bullets. Although located near Tunis Lake, the whereabouts of this ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Liberty: (Category); ... then known as the Blue Mountain Country, they settled to the north west of the present Village of Liberty near to Revonah Lake, formerly known as the Broadhead Pond. Our early settlers came from Connecticut ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Highland: (Category); ... places in this town. the town is sparsely populated and made up of woodland, streams and small lakes. Highland was not settled until after the Revolutionary War, although one of the bloodiest battle ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Forestburgh: (Category); ... nd on Plank Road South. A nine mile Swinging Bridge Lake (bridge long abandoned) exists within Forestburgh and Thompson townships. It is popular for boaters, swimming and fishing and some bear, making h ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. 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
8. Delaware: (Category); ... chwoods and vacationers from the New York metropolitan area to summer at local boarding houses and hotels. Although it too became a favorite spot for vacationers, Kenoza Lake (Pike Pond) had begun to ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. County History: (Category); ... from Ulster County on March 27, 1809, it was a heavily forested, rocky and rugged region largely inaccessible to the rest of the world. But the natural beauty of its many lakes and streams and rivers had ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Cochecton: (Category); ... Over the years, farming has been a major industry in Cochecton and during the insurgence of the resort industry. The farmhouse became a hotel. Cochecton had its share of hotels, particularly near Lake ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Callicoon: (Category); ... a grist mill. The mill proved to be a money-maker as before then settlers had to cart their grain as far away as Liberty of Pike Pond (now Kenoza Lake) to have it ground. In the hamlet of North Branch, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Bethel: (Category); ... came to town. He started a community that he called “Mountain Lakes". It was not long before it became known as Smallwood. Mr. Smallwood employed about 100 men during the time of the depression. This was ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. White Lake, Sullivan County, New York Hotel History ...: (Video); Published on Aug 21, 2015 Narrated by Cy Plotkin whose parents bought the original Woodlawn Villa in 1920. A brief history of hotels around White Lake and Kauneonga Lake, Sullivan County, New York. ...; Created on 18 December 2015
14. Masten Lake Burial Grounds ...: (Thompson); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
15. Swan Lake Cemetery ...: (Liberty); REF: 1930 by GAB; Created on 03 June 2010
16. Congregation Amavatm Sholem Cemetery: (Liberty); NOTE: Jewish Cemetery REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
17. Tennanah Lake cemetery ...: (Fremont); REF: by LM; Created on 03 June 2010
18. Old Moulthrop Cemetery Kenoza Lake ...: (Delaware); LOCATION: Kenoza Lake, NY. Next to the Methodist Church Cemetery. AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY ...; Created on 03 June 2010
19. Old Lake Huntington Cemetery ...: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Cochecton Township FAMILY: Keesler Family - Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: 1st Presbyterian Church ...; Created on 03 June 2010
20. Lake Huntington Presbyterian Church Cemetery ...: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Cochecton, NY 2nd Cemetery AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
21. White Lake Presbyterian Society Cemetery ...: (Bethel); LOCATION: Route 17B FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery can be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: Old Bethel Burial Grounds REF: 1929 ...; Created on 03 June 2010
22. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); ... archivist, officer, and a person to go to when a historical question comes upon. He will be greatly missed. The following is taken from a Smallwood-White Lake Fire Company posting on Facebook. ...; Created on 29 March 2020
23. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... to come off," Wadleigh said. "That feeling that someone could pull the plug out on us didn't go away until the music started." Elliot Tiber read about Woodstock getting tossed out of Wallkill. Tiber' ...; Created on 04 January 2016
24. Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... use. This year (1984) the village has moved into its first permanent home, next to the library, on Center Street in the "Old Firehouse". Reprinted from Village Tribute, Sunday, May 6, 1984, Menges' L ...; Created on 26 December 2015
25. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... the WhiteLake area in conjunction with Sullivan County Renaissance program. Both Bill and Pat have also volunteered at FortDelawareMuseum, the Mongaup Valley Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary and on ...; Created on 18 October 2014
26. Fifteen Thousand Dollar Boarding House Sold: (Mamakating); ... to William Hultslander of Highview and Benj. Decker of Lake, Orange County. “The house will accommodate 125 and is so situated as to afford a grand view from the balcony, covering a distance of 25 ...; Created on 06 March 2012
27. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); The Stone Arch Bridge, near Kenoza Lake was built in the 1870s by Swiss-German settlers who had brought their skills in stone masonry with them from the old country. It was built to replace a wooden bridge ...; Created on 03 November 2011
28. History of Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... use. This year (1984) the village has moved into its first permanent home, next to the library, on Center Street in the "Old Firehouse". Reprinted from Village Tribute, Sunday, May 6, 1984, Menges' L ...; Created on 03 November 2011
29. Casino Burns: (Liberty); October 19, 1911; Sullivan County Review "Clark's Pavillion at Lake Ophelia, near Liberty, burned to the ground early this morning. When help arrived it was too late, as the whole front of the buildi ...; Created on 07 October 2011
30. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... lic Church now stands. In 1849, John C. Tillotson, grandfather of the late Howard Tillotson, gave to the Trustees of the Associated Church at White Lake that piece of land now occupied by the Presbyste ...; Created on 29 September 2011
31. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... tle west of the Black Lake Road junction on the north side of Route 17-B, near White Lake. Mr. Robert Schlicting, New York State Department of Highways engineer on the reconstruction of 17-B, has placed ...; Created on 22 September 2011
32. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); From the SCHS Observer; September 14, 1964 - Vol. 1, No. 3 "The mystery of the missing marker of Kiamesha Lake was solved in July with as much secrecry as the disappearance a year earlier. Some time i ...; Created on 22 September 2011
33. Methodist Church Cemetery: (Delaware); LOCATION: Kenoza Lake - Next to church AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 REF: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
34. Soule Cemetery: (Bethel); LOCATION: Mt. Hope Road between Swan Lake and Horseshoe Pond FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
35. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... affluent, their expectations rose and hotels in the county were always kept busy keeping up with the expectations. As soon as a lake was replaced with an outdoor pool, vacationers began to assume that ...; Created on 11 August 2008
36. 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
37. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... ps took them to the Laurels Country Club by Sackett Lake to play a top Sullivan County semipro team, the Emeralds of Monticello. As center, she had to play against a tall, husky local fellow named Russel ...; Created on 11 August 2003
38. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... The Anniversary celebration included a boat regatta on White Lake, dancing, a parade, and fireworks and was considered a great success. She also kept up with changing times and new technology and contributed ...; Created on 11 August 2003
39. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... and his poetry, dealing with places like Kiamesha Lake and White Lake, celebrated the rural beauty which was still unspoiled in that day. Yet today few people have heard of him, even as many English teachers ...; Created on 11 August 2002
40. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... of the Wanaksink Lake Corporation. She died on January 14, 1944. Her daughter and son-in-law Gladys and Wesley Durland and her three grandchildren, Marjorie, Alberta and Robert Durland ...; Created on 11 August 2001
41. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... he held to his death. 1992 was to be a year of tremendous change for Bill and Marge. That was the year they would move from their home of forty years on Ann Street to their “new” home on Wanaksink Lake. ...; Created on 11 August 1998
42. Highland: (Tags); Highland; Created on 26 December 2015
43. Highland: (Article Category tagged with: Highland); The Information in the listed Highland Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747; Created on 26 December 2015
44. Highland: (Article Category tagged with: Highland); ... places in this town. the town is sparsely populated and made up of woodland, streams and small lakes. Highland was not settled until after the Revolutionary War, although one of the bloodiest battle ...; Created on 26 December 2015

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