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1. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... at the Monticello High School, and Bob is a new resident in the County, relocated from ? The concert is free, but we will be asking for donations to help fund our March First Sunday concert, when ...; 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. Thompson: (Category); ... The Village of Monticello was incorporated in 1830. The first town meeting of Thompson was held at the house of Abraham Warring, who kept a tavern in Thompsonville. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Fallsburg: (Category); ... on one hill and churches, a court house and other important structures on other rises in his town. Unfortunately, the Jones brothers of Monticello beat him to his dream and Mr. Miller returned to Orange ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. County History: (Category); ... was born. Brothers Samuel F. and John P. Jones founded the village of Monticello in 1804 and Samuel was instrumental in the construction of the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike, the first improved road ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. The Great Monticello Fire - Rep-Watchman Aug 13th 1909 ...: (Thompson); $1,000,000 FIRE IN MONTICELLO BUSINESS SECTION GUTTED Seventy-Four Places of Business and Residence Go Up in Smoke-—A Sorry Spectacle—But Monticello Will Build Again. The larger part of the business ...; Created on 16 February 2018
7. Monticello ...: (Thompson); The Village of Monticello On March 20, 1801, an act was passed authorizing the building of a new turnpike road from the Hudson River to the Delaware through what was then Ulster and Orange Counties. ...; Created on 26 December 2015
8. The Monticello Fire ...: (Video); The Monticello Fire monticello_fire ...; Created on 28 May 2014
9. 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
10. First Monticello Presbyterian Society ...: (Thompson); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
11. New Book Available at the Gift Shop about Judge Cooke: (Announcements); ... History. Judge Lawrence Cooke was the former Chief Judge of New York State and a lifelong resident of Monticello, NY. The book takes a look at Judge Cooke as a person as well as a respected jurist. The ...; Created on 04 August 2017
12. High School Yearbook Request: (Announcements); ... Allan Wolkoff, historian for the Town of Thompson, donated his collection of Monticello high School yearbooks and the Callicoon Library donated their duplicate copies of the Delaware Valley High School ...; Created on 21 February 2017
13. The Borscht Belt: (Now Showing); ... Age” of the resort era. John Conway was born and grew up in Monticello, NY. He has been the Sullivan County Historian since 1993. John has written 4 books on local history, as well as many newspaper col ...; Created on 17 June 2016
14. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... at Monticello schools where she remained until the end of her career. As a teacher, Elsie has been remembered for being an old-fashioned teacher who gave up much of her time, energy and talents to her ...; Created on 17 January 2016
15. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... hippies who trekked to Woodstock as about the music on stage. He wanted the stories of the young people, their feelings about the Viet Nam War, about the times. The stories of the townspeople. These wou ...; Created on 04 January 2016
16. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); ... the Villages of Liberty and Monticello, New York. The zip code for Hurleyville is 12747. Hurleyville is bordered by the Town of Thompson, the Town of Liberty, the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake and the hamlet ...; Created on 26 December 2015
17. The Bungalows of Sullivan County: (Video); the bungalows of sullivan county - pt. 1 - concord rd and lanahan rd east and west of route 42 respectively in monticello, ny. gdYYtq5DQ2c ...; Created on 18 December 2015
18. Genalogy September 2015: (News); ... always welcome people to file our obituary cards so that our collection can continue to grow. We appreciate the donation by the Ethelbert Crawford Library in Monticello of a card catalogue to expand ou ...; Created on 03 September 2015
19. The Methodist Cemetery; Livingston Manor: (Rockland); ... . Christian Fairchild of Monticello, a member of the Doll family, early settlers of the Beaverkill valley, has made it possible by a very large liberal contribution to start the work others are helping ...; Created on 07 October 2011
20. Along the Neversink.....: (Neversink); "...John R Tompkins, father of Ross, was a drover and a great maple sugar maker. So much so that he was known in Monticello and Ellenville as Sugar John. John Low, Phoebe Low, and Vick Chamblin ran the ...; Created on 07 October 2011
21. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... ian Church at Mongaup Valley. General A. C. Niven (of Monticello) was an elder in the church at White Lake from 1834 until 1851, when the congregation removed to Mongaup Valley and continued to that pos ...; Created on 29 September 2011
22. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... unty Historical Society. For a number of years it stood on the porch of the museum in Monticello. As depicted in "Brass Buttons and Leather Boots," the milestone resembled a gravestone in size and desi ...; Created on 22 September 2011
23. 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
24. Old Mansion House: (Bethel); September 15, 1911 Liberty Register "There is much discussion of a plan to rehabiliate the Old Mansion House at Monticello, and again make it the center of life in that village. "The upper floo ...; Created on 15 September 2011
25. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... they purchased the two hundred acre Hagan Farm outside of Monticello. Unfortunately, they soon realized that making a living from a Sullivan County farm was a difficult undertaking and to augment their ...; Created on 11 August 2008
26. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... Sam and Bella Yasgur, Max was raised in Maplewood. He initially went to a one room school on 17-B and then to the Monticello school. His parents ran a small hotel and farm. In January, 1937, when Max was ...; Created on 01 June 2004
27. 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
28. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... at the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn and eventually returned to the county and worked at the Monticello Hospital. After the Second World War she met and married Fred Schoch who had lost a leg in Italy. ...; Created on 11 August 2003
29. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... His father ran a gas station in Monticello, but found time to be a voracious reader and books such as Quinlan’s “History of Sullivan County” occupied a prominent place on his shelves. His father passed ...; Created on 11 August 2002
30. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... then Highway Supervisor in Monticello. The road crew was working in Rock Hill in early spring when Mrs. Chase drove up on her way to Fallsburg. Mr. Coddington strongly advised her not to take that road ...; Created on 11 August 2001
31. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... the late 1960’s he and Rita joined the Sullivan County Historical Society. It was a busy time as the Society had the opportunity to move from its limited quarters in Monticello to a portion of the former ...; Created on 11 August 2000
32. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... The family did not like New York City and about 1911 decided to move to Woodridge where they lived on the farm of Harry’s sister-in-law, a Mrs. Golub. While attending Monticello High ...; Created on 11 August 1999
33. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... Stone Ridge and began working for the New York Telephone Company as an installer. In 1945 New York Telephone “transferred” Bill to Monticello. His transfer consisted of a ride from the Telephone Company ...; Created on 11 August 1998
34. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... probably agree that the First Citizen of the county was a Monticello man, Lawrence H. Cooke, who became Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. These historians will be impressed with the Judge’s ...; Created on 01 June 1998
35. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... at Brooklyn Law School, Class of 1955 and returned to the county to practice law with the firm of Levine and Williams in Monticello. His legal practice did not last long, however. His ...; Created on 11 August 1996
36. Marjorie Durland Smith: (History Preserver); ... of the Monticello Women’s Club, Corresponding Secretary for the NYS Federation of Women’s Clubs, a Sunday School teacher and a Girl Scout leader. In honoring a person who over four decades has made outstanding ...; Created on 11 August 1994
37. World War I Comes to the Museum June 16th: (Past Exhibits); ... letters sent to the folks at home during the war. Some of the veterans writing home came from Monticello, Fallsburg, Middletown, Glen Wild, Liberty, and Parksville. The program will be held at the ...; Created on 09 June 2018

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