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1. SCHS Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner (2017-10-01): (Events Calendar/SCHS Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner); SCHS Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner 6 (845) 434-8044; Created on 03 September 2017
2. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... guests included Thurman Barker and Trinity, the Inner Urge Trio, mandolinist Joe Walsh, guitarist Grant Gordy, the Coal Town Rounders, Eastlande, MiZ (Mike Mizwinski),and Louie Setzer and the Appalachian ...; Created on 29 January 2020
3. Treaty of Paris Ratified (2020-01-14): (Events Calendar/Treaty of Paris Ratified); ... Annapolis, Maryland ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing (2020-04-06) ...: (Events Calendar/Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing); Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing April 6 to 7, 1862 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee ...; Created on 27 December 2015
5. Maryland, the seventh state (2020-04-28) ...: (Events Calendar/Maryland, the seventh state); Maryland, the seventh state April 28, 1788 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Annapolis, Maryland ...; Created on 27 December 2015
6. Rhode Island, the thirteenth state (2020-05-29) ...: (Events Calendar/Rhode Island, the thirteenth state); Rhode Island, the thirteenth state May 29, 1790 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Providence, Rhode Island ...; Created on 27 December 2015
7. Battle of Okinawa Ends (2020-06-21): (Events Calendar/Battle of Okinawa Ends); Battle of Okinawa Ends http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa ...; Created on 27 December 2015
8. Amelia Earhart and plane missing over central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island (2020-07-02) ...: (Events Calendar/Amelia Earhart and plane missing over central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island); Amelia Earhart and plane missing over central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island Missing July 2, 1937, declared dead on January 5, 1939 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Howland Island ...; Created on 27 December 2015
9. Battle of Baltimore (2020-09-12): (Events Calendar/Battle of Baltimore); Battle of Baltimore September 12, 1814. It was during this battle that Francis Scott Key wrote the words that would become the "Star-Spangled Banner". http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Baltimore, Marylan ...; Created on 27 December 2015
10. Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg (2020-09-17): (Events Calendar/Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg); Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg September 17, 1862 - The bloodiest single day battle in American history with about 23,000 casualties. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Sharpsburg, Maryland ...; Created on 27 December 2015
11. Tusten: (Category); The town was previously part of the Towns of Mamakating and Lumberland in 1853. Benjamin Homans was the first settler, setting himself up by Narrowsburg. The Ten Mile River Baptist Church and Tusten Stone ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Thompson: (Category); ... native of Litchfield County, Connecticut. He was a miller who arrived in the area in 1794. Thompson bought land and built a settlement near what was then known as Albion. Thompson, who later became a judge, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Rockland ...: (Category); The History of the Town of Rockland By Wilmer Sipple Town of Rockland Historian The Indian & Colonial Period The History of the Town of Rockland is largely a history of the surroundings ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. Rockland ...: (Category); The Information in the listed Rockland Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. Mamakating: (Category); ... According to historical records Johanis Hardenburgh, a resident of Kingston, N.Y., purchased a large tract of land known as the Hardenburgh patent. This land and another patent known as the Minisink patent ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. Lumberland ...: (Category); The Information in the listed Lumberland Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 30 November -0001
17. Lumberland ...: (Category); A BIT OF LUMBERLAND HISTORY By an act of the State Legislature, Lumberland came into existence as a township on March 16, 1798, taking in an area that was bounded in the east by the Mongaup River and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
18. Liberty: (Category); ... of Lumberland, and was itself at this time, so large that it included the present towns of Callicoon and Freemont. The Town today covers 85 square miles. When the first white settlers came to this area, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
19. Highland ...: (Category); The Information in the listed Highland Cemeteries is available at the Sullivan County Historical Society Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 30 November -0001
20. Highland ...: (Category); On December 17, 1853, by an act of the Sullivan County Supervisors, the towns of Highand and Tusten were taken from the Town of Lumberland and each made an independent town. Both towns are in the southwestern ...; Created on 30 November -0001
21. Fremont: (Category); ... had several admirers among the men who organized the new town and it was named in his honor. It became the eleventh town. The lands of Fremont were the last in the county to be opened up for settlement. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
22. Forestburgh: (Category); Forestburgh is one of the smallest of the fifteen towns of Sullivan County bordered by Thompson, Lumberland and Mamakating. Early inhabitants in the 1780's were of Celtic, German and Sweedish ancestry. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
23. Fallsburg: (Category); ... the falls in the Neversink, between what is now Fallsburg and Hasbrouck, became known as having fertile and cheap land. This brought another influx of settlers from Ulster County. They came south from ...; Created on 30 November -0001
24. Delaware: (Category); A Brief History of the Town of Delaware By Mary E. Curtis Practically all of the land now within the boundaries of the Town of Delaware was a part of the tract of the Hardenburgh patent purchased ...; Created on 30 November -0001
25. County History: (Category); ... that the tribe ultimately controlled a land mass that encompassed from what is today upstate New York to the state of Delaware. They called this land Lenapehoking, or “land of the Lenape.” The tribe ...; Created on 30 November -0001
26. Cochecton: (Category); ... the Delaware River in either 1638 or 1639 where the hamlet of Cochecton presently exists. Cochecton’s fertile flats (“Cushetunk” as it was called by the Indians meaning “low lands”) were abounding in ...; Created on 30 November -0001
27. Callicoon: (Category); ... of the Town of Lumberland and from 1807 to 1842 was part of the Town of Liberty. By an act of the State Legislature, the Town of Callicoon was formed in 1842. Once established, Callicoon was one of the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
28. Bethel: (Category); ... event. Today, we have concerts & farm markets on the site and visitors from all over the world come to our town year round to visit. There are plans to make a permanent music site in the surrounding land. Cons ...; Created on 30 November -0001
29. 1938 Hurricane: (Category); News from the 1938 Hurricane As the tropical storm named Ilene made landform east of New York City, the local media made many comparisons with this recent storm to the hurricane that struck the southern ...; Created on 30 November -0001
30. SCNY Landscape Photography ...: (Video); Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle Uy_1JgMMKbA ...; Created on 29 May 2014
31. Landfield Avenue Synagogue Cemetery ...: (Thompson); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
32. Marjorie Durland Smith ...: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 1994 Marjorie Durland Smith The December 1, 1928 Certificate of Incorporation of the Sullivan County Historical Society lists as one ...; Created on 11 August 1994
33. 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
34. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... Railway purchased farms and large tracts of land. Among these railroad dignitaries was Bradford Gilbert, the noted architect, who designed many of the stone and rustic railroad station houses along the ...; Created on 17 January 2016
35. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... enman, the son of a prominent Long Island orthodontist, had just graduated from Yale Law School. In 1967, the mustachioed Rosenman, 24, was playing guitar for a lounge band in motels from Long Island to Las V ...; Created on 04 January 2016
36. Monticello: (Thompson); ... totaling 1861 acres for which they paid $4,613. Since Samuel was occupied surveying the route for the new turnpike, it was left to John to start making immediate improvements to their land. John arrived ...; Created on 26 December 2015
37. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); ... This name was chosen because the postmaster had a son stationed at Luzon Island in the Philippines.[1] Automobile competition led to abandonment of the O&W in 1957. Pictures related to Hurleyville NY ...; Created on 26 December 2015
38. Vandermark (Beesimer, Hogancamp) Family Cemetery: (Genealogy Department); ... N.J. Vandermark (Beesimer, Hogancamp) Family Cemetery Debruce, Rockland, Sullivan County NY Anyone related to these 3 families, and related families, who is interested in forming a family cemeter ...; Created on 02 May 2015
39. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... work, they moved to northern New Jersey. In addition to raising a family of two sons and a daughter, Pat pursued her interest in fashion by working and volunteering at many of the historic houses and landmarks ...; Created on 18 October 2014
40. Woodstock: (Now Showing); ... ct to the festival, and its later reincarnation into the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, that is now explored by the new exhibit being assembled at the Sullivan County Museum. The land on which the st ...; Created on 12 April 2013
41. 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
42. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... ram." His office worked closely with local organizations along with governmental and volunteer agencies in designing programs to meet existing community needs. Perhaps one of the most visible land wide re ...; Created on 04 April 2012
43. 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
44. Along The Neversink....: (Neversink); ... streaking hot-foot for no-man's-land. "David Brundage was the old-time blacksmith. He also pulled teeth with a turn key apparatus, for which he charged a quarter. If children had no money, he asked non ...; Created on 28 December 2011
45. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... to preserve the Bridge and its surroundings their efforts were rewarded with the purchase of over four acres of land on the downstream of the Bridge. By the summer of 1976, the Sullivan County Departmen ...; Created on 03 November 2011
46. The Hamlet of Beaver Brook: (Tusten); Beaver Brook is another community in Tusten that had a school, but was not named on the 1875 Beer's map. The early people who owned land here prior to the Civil Waar were primarily engaged in lumbering ...; Created on 20 October 2011
47. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); The Town of Tusten was part of the Town of Mamakating from 1743 to 1798. In 1798 the Town of Lumberland was formed from Mamakating which included the Towns of Tusten and Highland. In 1853 Highland and ...; Created on 20 October 2011
48. Salmon Steele: (Rockland); ... in the 19th century. Salmon Steele, like so many other early migrants into the area during this era, began as a tenant on land owned by the aristocratic Livingston family. In 1848, Steele purchased lots ...; Created on 07 October 2011
49. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... "In 1817, Tillotson built a grist-mill and also erected a sawmill and a year later sold a large tract of land to Kiersted and Swan, who erected one of the best tanneries in the county, employing over ...; Created on 29 September 2011
50. 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
51. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello: (Thompson); ... and erect similar signs. The markers are purchased at a cost of $45, less pole. The incentive for the marker in Monticello was supplied by Mrs. W.G. Durland, Museum Curator, who arranged the matter with vi ...; Created on 22 September 2011
52. Stone Arch Bridge Saved For Posterity: (General History); ... s on three parcels of land at the site of the bridge as a parks and recreation site. "The Historical Society is working also on saving the Roebling Bridge, which was the experimental model for the Brook ...; Created on 22 September 2011
53. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... the old veteran on a small slope. Some landscaping is planned. It is not known if any other milestones survive in Sullivan County, though this reporter has seen another Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike marke ...; Created on 22 September 2011
54. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); ... s Durland and Bert Feldman at the NYS Highway Department offices from Monticello to Binghamton to Albany drew a blank look and no information at the county and township level. Acting State Historian Willi ...; Created on 22 September 2011
55. Salmon Steele and the Morsston Tannery: (Rockland); ... in the 19th century. Salmon Steele, like so many other early migrants into the area during this era, began as a tenant on land owned by the aristocratic Livingston family. In 1848, Steele purchased lots ...; Created on 16 August 2011
56. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... the highly anticipated event that is to usher out the end of an era. For fifty-six years, the one hundred and twenty-five foot chimney has towered high above the surrounding landscape; a well-known landmark ...; Created on 28 June 2011
57. D&H Canal: (General History); ... Hudson to New York City and up the river to Canada. The canal was conceived in 1823 by William and Maurice Wurts, two Philadelphia dry goods merchants who had purchased large tracts of land in northeastern ...; Created on 04 June 2010
58. 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
59. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... is described in detail under the Town of Highland. There are also final chapters on new modes of transportation- the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the New York and Erie Railway and the New York and Oswego ...; Created on 11 August 2006
60. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... for the stage musical version of “The Devil’s Advocate” and is working closely with composers in Holland for the production which will probably take place in London. Looking ahead, he ...; Created on 01 June 2006
61. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2005 Daniel Skinner Lord High Admiral of the Delaware When the pioneers first entered the lower Delaware valley, they found a land covered ...; Created on 11 August 2005
62. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2005 Wilmer Sipple The History Preserver Award for 2005 is presented to Wilmer Sipple who is both the Town of Rockland Historian and Director ...; Created on 11 August 2005
63. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... by Michael Land, Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman. Originally it was to have been held in Woodstock, New York. When that did not work out they attempted to move to Wallkill, but the Wallkill ...; Created on 01 June 2004
64. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... e says she always enjoyed group sports more than individual competition and after the Olympics she became the center for the Long Island Ducklings, a women's traveling basketball team. One of their tr ...; Created on 11 August 2003
65. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... in the preservation of our county’s history. Bee has deep roots in the life of this county. She is descended from William Van Keuren who in the 19th century gave land for the Van Keuren Cemetery in the ...; Created on 11 August 2003
66. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... Emperor Joseph was relatively benign and Selig and his family did not experience the fierce pogroms of other lands. Nevertheless, Selig could see the limitations of his family's future if they remain ...; Created on 11 August 2002
67. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... land was still being cleared for farming in the county. Apart from Quinlan’s history, much of the county’s early history has been lost, but John finds that thanks to the chance discovery of a document ...; Created on 11 August 2002
68. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... be noted that her name appeared on the 1890 cover of the Milton Bradley & Company educational supply catalog as an accomplished graduate of Albany State College. Miss Cooke landed her ...; Created on 11 August 2001
69. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2001 Mary Edith Curtis In the 1750’s, land hungry residents of Connecticut formed the Delaware Company to move westward ...; Created on 11 August 2001
70. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); ... 18 years old his superiors felt that he was "too immature" to be an officer and denied him a commission. After training with the 75th Infantry Division, Currey was sent to England in the sprin ...; Created on 01 June 2000
71. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... to the county to work in the family business. In 1959 Judith Schmid, brought up in Switzerland, came to this country to work as a ski instructor at the Concord Resort Hotel. Her first evening in the county ...; Created on 11 August 1999
72. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... and graduated from Kingston City High School. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and during the World War II served in the European Theater of War in England and Scotland with the 710th Bomb Squadron. Bill ...; Created on 11 August 1998
73. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... legal accomplishments, but they will be even more impressed with his character. They will note that the Judge was a man who achieved a position of great responsibility, who changed the judicial landscape ...; Created on 01 June 1998
74. John Raleigh Mott: (History Makers); ... of New London County, Connecticut, with the Messrs. Mott, Overton and two brothers named Worden, went to the Town of Rockland, where they had made arrangements to obtain a tract of land. . . . A Mr. Bascom ...; Created on 11 August 1997
75. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... the republic. A John Burbank settled in Rowley, Massachusetts as part of that great Puritan migration from England in the 1630’s and there were Burbank ancestors who served in most of the nation’s wars. ...; Created on 11 August 1997
76. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... parties. Judge Williams recalls being involved in some very interesting cases. When the Borough of Staten Island petitioned to withdraw from New York City, he wrote the decision which ...; Created on 11 August 1996
77. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... miles per hour. Painted red and silver, it was named “Liberty” in honor of his adopted home town. The flight began from the Liberty Golf Course, touched down in Newfoundland and began the cross-Atlantic ...; Created on 11 August 1996
78. Frederick A. Cooke: (History Makers); ... an advertisement placed by a young naval civil engineer, Robert E. Peary, who needed a surgeon for his North Greenland Expedition in 1891. This exploration was the first of eight expeditions “Poleward” ...; Created on 01 June 1994
79. Landscapes ...: (Tags); Landscapes ...; Created on 26 December 2015
80. Highland ...: (Tags); Highland ...; Created on 26 December 2015
81. Lumberland ...: (Tags); Lumberland ...; Created on 26 December 2015
82. Rockland ...: (Tags); Rockland ...; Created on 26 December 2015
83. SCNY Landscape Photography ...: (Article tagged with: Landscapes); Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle ...; Created on 30 May 2014
84. SCNY Landscape Photography ...: (Article tagged with: Highland); Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle ...; Created on 30 May 2014
85. SCNY Landscape Photography ...: (Article tagged with: Lumberland); Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle ...; Created on 30 May 2014
86. SCNY Landscape Photography ...: (Article tagged with: Rockland); Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle ...; Created on 30 May 2014

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