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1. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... we bring back very special guitarist, Van Manakas. Van, who comes up from Montclair, New Jersey will be bringing his own jazz trio. The date for that show is Sunday, March 1st, at 2:00pm, so mark your ...; Created on 29 January 2020
2. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); ... sits inside the D&H Canal Interpretive Center in Summitville. Monticello, NY – Marking the end of pandemic-related closures, the Sullivan County Cultural Center in Hurleyville and the Delaware & Hudson ...; Created on 11 July 2021
3. Victory at Yorktown (2020-10-19): (Events Calendar/Victory at Yorktown); Victory at Yorktown October 19, 1781 - The British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders his 8,000 troops in Yorktown, Virginia, marking an end to the American Revolution. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Rockland: (Category); ... Turnwood and Rockland. Our first settlers were kept very busy clearing the forests which provided an early source of income because of the ready market for logs and lumber. Logs were lashed together ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... trip. The D and H Canal helped bring prosperity to Mamakating and all of Sullivan County. In 1899 the railroad came and marked the beginning of the end for the D and H canal. In recent years there has ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Highland: (Category); ... ng Record and is a national historic landmark. Roebling's bridge served the canal un1898. The bridge has been renovated for highway travel between Minisink Ford and Lackawaxen. The hamlet of Eldred ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Fremont: (Category); ... and was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. He became its second supervisor. There was no road from Hankins to Liberty. Quinlan relates that he reached Liberty by following a route marked ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Forestburgh: (Category); ... David handy and wife were the first known white settlers. His occupation was shiolglemaker due to virgin hemlocks and unusual springs. He died about 1814, a historical marker in Oakland Valley indicate ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Fallsburg: (Category); ... the farmer/boardinghouse trade, but it certainly developed it into the tremendous business that existed here at the turn of the century. The story of the remarkable summer tourist industry in Sullivan ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Delaware: (Category); ... er put his first small raft of logs into the Delaware just below Callicoon, and floated it to market in Philadelphia. This grew into a business, which took millions of board feet of timber from the fore ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. 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
12. 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
13. Interview: Mark Kutsher ...: (Video); Interview with Mark Kutsher mark_kutcher ...; Created on 28 May 2014
14. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello ...: (Thompson); SCHS Observer; November 9, 1964 "A blue-and-gold historical marker has been erected on the front lawn of the Intercounty Trust Company in the village of Monticello to mark the site of the first buildin ...; Created on 22 September 2011
15. 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
16. Vandermark Cemetery ...: (Rockland); LOCATION: ¼ mi from Henry Cemetery REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
17. Marks Burial grounds ...: (Rockland); REF: 1999 by JP & IB; Created on 03 June 2010
18. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... into the upper Beaverkill Valley wilderness. Their survival depended on subsistence farming, lumber rafted down the river to urban markets along the Delaware River and hauling hemlock bark to the large ...; Created on 17 January 2016
19. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... e of the complaints by hiring Wes Pomeroy, a former top assistant at the Justice Department, to head the security detail. A minister, the Rev. Donald Ganoung, was put on the payroll to head up local rela ...; Created on 04 January 2016
20. Monticello: (Thompson); ... Before the log house was built in Monticello or the first tree cut, the farseeing brothers first surveyed their planned village, laying out broad streets and a central park. Trees were marked to indicate ...; Created on 26 December 2015
21. The Rich History of one Catskills hotel: (Video); ... s hotel matriarch Helen Kutsher and her son Mark. Til8q0tI9Co ...; Created on 18 December 2015
22. Frederick A. Cook Exhibit: (Pictures); ... was born in Hortonville, NY in 1865 and died in New Rochelle, NY in 1940. State historical markers are at his birthplace and near his remains in Forest Lawn, Buffalo, NY. The Sullivan County Museum has ...; Created on 18 December 2015
23. Frederick A. Cook: (Now Showing); ... was born in Hortonville, NY in 1865 and died in New Rochelle, NY in 1940. State historical markers are at his birthplace and near his remains in Forest Lawn, Buffalo, NY. The Sullivan County Museum has ...; Created on 18 December 2015
24. 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
25. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... side of the Bridge occurred during the same summer. December of 1976 saw the Bridge honored as a Landmark by its inclusion to the National Registry of Historic Places, which made it eligible for federa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
26. Mutton Hill Burying Ground...cont: (Neversink); ... 35 graves with head-stones or markers bearing inscriptions. While there are about 50 marked with plain rough stones or flags from the nearby woods and fields which have no intelligible markings to enlighten ...; Created on 27 October 2011
27. 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
28. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II: (Neversink); ... and in 1805 he was a member of the Assembly. "As we look around at the smaller markers we see such inscriptions as the following; "Mary, wife of Benjamin Gillett. Died 1808. Born 1765. "Betsy, w ...; Created on 01 September 2011
29. Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... on two sides by dense woods, on the northwest by the Mutton Hill road, and on the southwest by the broad sheep pastures. There are about 35 graves with headstones or markers bearing inscriptions. While ...; Created on 31 August 2011
30. 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
31. D&H Canal: (General History); ... le method of transportation had to be found and a market created, for anthracite had not previously been taken seriously and many doubted its ability to burn efficiently. They hired Benjamin Wright, Ch ...; Created on 04 June 2010
32. 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
33. Layton Family Cemetery: (Delaware); ... 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747. Approximately 6 markers, most unreadable. REF: Beechwoods - abandoned ...; Created on 03 June 2010
34. Single Grave: (Cochecton); ... her beside the road. A tombstone marks the grave. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
35. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... of Louis’s son, Milton, who was born in 1916. Today, looking back over the achievements of his parents and grand-parents, Mark Kutsher sums up their approach in a few words, “Hospitality ...; Created on 11 August 2008
36. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... system in Liberty, New York, where he still maintains his corporate offices. Over the years he developed innovative capital structures that made possible the financing of CVI’s remarkable growth without ...; Created on 11 August 2007
37. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... General Store. His first summer, he operated a marketplace selling fruits, vegetables, plants and flowers. He did a lot of restoring to the building and eventually it became the Ferndale Marketplace and ...; Created on 11 August 2007
38. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... The masts were sold for four pounds each and Skinner was granted the unofficial title of "Lord High Admiral of the Delaware," a title which he held until his death in 1801. His voyage marked the beginni ...; Created on 11 August 2005
39. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... eight decades the railroad was an important part of county life. There was lumber to be transported, dairy products from the farms along its passage to be taken to market and blue stone from quarries and ...; Created on 11 August 2005
40. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... combination in American Olympics history. Now that's something for Sullivan County to cheer about. Let's begin with Mother. Born in 1914 Alice Arden showed remarkable athletic ability at an ear ...; Created on 11 August 2003
41. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... buildings and historic sites such as mills, tanneries, Hurd Cave, Pintler Cemetery, etc. Bee was also responsible for putting up several historical markers and developing a very interesting ...; Created on 11 August 2003
42. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... f a quest for excellence in details and generosity to the community would continue to inspire. In recognition of the achievements of this remarkable woman, the Sullivan County Historical Society is pl ...; Created on 11 August 2002
43. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... Agriculture on June 5, 1912. Mrs. Chase made a further indelible mark when she scored the top mark of 96.5 on the New York State superintendent examination. This grade was the second ...; Created on 11 August 2001
44. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... inherited Hannah’s spunk. Indeed, as Mary has reflected on the two and a half centuries her family has been in the Valley, the idea has formed of writing a book about the remarkable women who preceded ...; Created on 11 August 2001
45. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... which found new markets by targeting groups with special insurance needs such as summer camps, race horses, karate classes, etc. which the larger companies avoided. Expansion continued steadily and today ...; Created on 11 August 1999
46. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... simply, it broke his heart and for a time his spirit. However, braced by that never say die attitude that marked Bill’s life and in order to stay in the history game, in 1993 at the age of 72, Bill started ...; Created on 11 August 1998
47. Marjorie Durland Smith: (History Preserver); ... of remarkable women. Marjorie has been a member of the Society and active in the field of local history for over forty years. Her list of accomplishments during this period is lengthy and can only ...; Created on 11 August 1994

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