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... in the “Anti Rent Wars.” The Constitution of New York State was finally amended making perpetual rent illegal and opened the way for tenants to gain title to their lands. With the improvement ...

... part of the county along the Delaware River. The Town of Highland was named after the geography of its land. the "highlands" between the Delaware River and the Mongaup river rises to 1,300 feet in som ...

... 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. ...

... his burial. By Act of legislature in 1837, Forestburgh became a town taken from lands of Thompson and Mamakating, part of the hardenburgh patent. William Broadhead was the town's first supervisor a ...

... Up until this time Hasbrouck had been the major settlement in the area. The upper Neversink River between Woodbourne and Hasbrouck was the heaviest settled because of the rich flatlands there along the ...

... had vanished, as had the massive fortunes amassed by those who owned them. When the landscape of Sullivan County had been drastically altered by the timber and tanning industries, the area turned ...

... 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 ...

... last sections of the county to be settled. There were but two or three families living in Callicoon by 1830. Apparently Callicoon was not settled earlier because most of its lands were owned by non-residents, ...

Landscapes of Sullivan County By Carl Beigle Uy_1JgMMKbA ...

... home for the winter but resumed the following spring. John returned to his work on their lands in early April 1804, while Samuel continued working for the turnpike company. After John put the sawmill ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... included additional information about such matters as Slavery, Temperance Reform, the Patented Lands of Sullivan County, etc. It was his intention to publish this research. Alas, he died the year after ...

... on lands which belonged to Connecticut by virtue of old land grants which extended from the Atlantic Ocean westward. Though Skinner became a prosperous landowner, he is remembered primarily for havin ...

... 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 ...

... the families from which her students came. She understood that often children of immigrant parents only heard the language from their native lands at home, thus slowing their progress in learning to read ...

... Omaha Beach, several weeks after D-Day, and in September joined the 120th Infantry Regiment in the Netherlands. By December 21, 1944, Currey was serving as a Sergeant in Company K, 120th Infantr ...

... 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 ...

... In 1936, riding on the crest of the Roosevelt landslide, he was elected to a one-year term in the State Assembly, but in fact he had little interest in politics. Hillig died September 12, 1954, having ...

... man to reach the North Pole. Cook’s troubled later years included imprisonment for promoting Texas oil lands in 1923. He was paroled in 1930, pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt ...

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