- 1. Lumberland
- (Category)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Highland
- (Category)
- ... r was cut and tied into rafts and floated down the river to Philadelphia where the logs were used as spaars in the shipbuilding industry. There were numerous sawmills in the town during its lumbering heyday ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Fallsburg
- (Category)
- ... river. A number of sawmills and gristmills were built there in the 1790�s further establishing the area. Hasbrouck was named in honor of Anthony Hasbrouck, a wealthy and prominent man who settled there ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. Cochecton
- (Category)
- ... ly caters to local residents from both sides of the river, and an ultra-modern feed mill--Cochecton Mills, which is operated by Robert and Dennis Nearing, who are descendants of some of the earliest settl ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 5. The Hamlet of Swamp Mills ...
- (Tusten)
- If you look on the 1875 map of Tusten you would see the hamlet with the largest print was Swamp Mills. Most people are not familiar with the name today and some would not recognize the later name of Neweiden. ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 6. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... the countryside for land to rent for just a few months. Feelers went out in Rockland County, then in Orange. For $10,000, Woodstock Ventures had leased a tract of land in the Town of Wallkill owned b ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 7. Monticello
- (Thompson)
- ... pson called the area around his improved lands Albion Mills. He and his family left the Mills each winter and returned to New York City until 1801 when they moved into a fine frame house and became year- ...
- Created on 26 December 2015
- 8. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson
- (Bethel)
- ... . There is no doubt that its peak was reached during the operation of the tannery and mills. "Remaining today are 2 churches and a combined general store and post office, two garages and a two-room s ...
- Created on 29 September 2011
- 9. Daniel Skinner
- (History Makers)
- ... s for shipbuilders, stone slabs for Philadelphia sidewalks and charcoal, whisky or butter produced by Delaware and Sullivan county farms. However, in time primitive water driven sawmills were built alon ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
- 10. 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
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