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The first settlers to the Town of Thompson in 1749 were farmers David Gray and Z. Hatch, who put down roots in the vicinity of Dutch Pond. The Town of Thompson was named after William A. Thompson, a ...

... 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 ...

... Hotel owners blamed the county’s budding reputation as a haven for those afflicted with tuberculosis for destroying their business, and by 1915 many of the once magnificent hotels had closed. A number ...

... fish, fur and game. Its proximity to the Delaware River, which led to Philadelphia, made it a natural for a permanent settlement. While land disputes occurred among New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, ...

Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2009 Edward Van Put Author Some of us are fortunate enough to discover at an early age those chief interests that will form ...

... to put back into these places so slowly, they declined,” Frishman said. Today, some of the old bungalows are owned by orthodox groups, who occupy the buildings during the summer months. “There are st ...

... has volunteered at the Sullivan County Historical Society for many years creating exhibits in different areas of interest. The current work is a loving effort to put forward vignettes of times of long ...

... And I kept talking about it and talking about it. It got to be kind of a joke, you know. But between all my nagging and the support from all the Irish in the town, we got it officially put back.” During ...

... of what was once the Hotel Ryan on Main Street. It was a world very different from the one we now inhabit, a world without computers, televisions, or even refrigerators. Children would bolt from their ...

... r sitcom, Roberts and Rosenman put a classified ad in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times in March 1968: "Young Men With Unlimited Capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportu ...

... later that year with eleven men, and after putting up a temporary shelter east of Monticello, they commenced working on a sawmill. The work halted when the brothers returned to their New Lebanon, Connecticut, ...

... its own weight to the shore. As the water was not high, however, it did not float away. The company then put up a new span on the New York side. This bridge with three piers was completed in the winte ...

... also named Tusten. Samuel Hankins, Sr. became a most prominent man of the area. He operated a sawmill, conducted a tavern for the accommodation of rivermen, as well as being a steersman of wide repute. ...

September 3, 1931; Livingston Manor Times "After visiting more than a dozen hotels in their search for slot machines without results, Constable Howard Denton and Deputy Sheriff Ben Gerow decided to retur ...

... built in that community. "Constructed by the Jones brothers, Monticello's first structure was put up in December, 1804. Planking from the original house has been employed to panel the Board of Direct ...

... ed that it the plaque is put on the bridge and nothing else done to it, the weight of the plaque may be the downfall of the bridge." ...

... books were completed, a copy was often sent to Charlotte by their authors in appreciation of her assistance. She acquired such a reputation for useful family knowledge that she received requests for information ...

... from service, Paul began his career as a photographer. He soon acquired an outstanding reputation and took photographs of the many famous comedians and entertainers who performed at the major Catskill ...

... more fishermen to the area. The Beaverkill and Willowemoc already had a reputation among trout fishermen and the railroad began stocking the rivers with additional trout to make the rivers even more attractive. ...

Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2004 Max Yasgur (12/15/19~02/09/73) A history maker is hard to define. Some earn that reputation after a lifetime of dedicated service. Others ...

... 100 Yard Dash: 9.3 seconds Long Jump: 25' 4 ½" Shot Put: 61' (American Decathlon Record) High Jump: 6' 5" 400-meter Run: 47.8 seconds 110-meter High Hurdles: 14.5 seconds Discus: 175' Pole ...

... 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 ...

... y an immigrant family, but the relations of Selig and his family with the community were so honorable that these negative feelings soon died out. Now that the Grossinger family had acquired a reputatio ...

... in the early 1900’s. Her professor at Cornell refused to acknowledge her presence in his classroom or put her name on the roster, evidently hoping she would simply go home. This was not to be. When Mrs. ...

... another, the army, for some bizarre reason, put him in charge of a bar, but Del’s real talents were eventually discovered and he was sent to a school to be trained to be a draftsman. Though his army career ...

... staffing of the judicial system. A Court Facilities Task Force created a 500-page report detailing the terrible conditions in many courthouses and the use of computers was encouraged throughout the state ...

... probably never heard of John R. Mott who was born in Livingston Manor in 1865, but in his day he had an international reputation, was asked by President Wilson to be our ambassador to China, received seven ...

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