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1. Research Request (SCHSIRR1): (Request Research); Open a request for Research; Created on 31 December 2015
2. Research Department: (Category); ... for up to two hours for $40.00 and will report our findings to you in as concise a form as possible. Please be aware that a search of our files and records may reveal nothing of value to ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Mamakating: (Category); ... According to historical records Johanis Hardenburgh, a resident of Kingston, N.Y., purchased a large tract of land known as the Hardenburgh patent. This land and another patent known as the Minisink patent ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. 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
5. Genealogy Department: (Category); ... for up to two hours for $40.00 and will report our findings to you in as concise a form as possible. Please be aware that a search of our files and records may reveal nothing of value to ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fremont: (Category); ... the town of Callicoon – the west half becoming Fremont. Previous to the creation of the town of Callicoon in 1842 it had been a part of the town of Liberty. Records show that John Hankins, a resident ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Curious Bits: (Category); ... copies and on microfilm. The following articles are from these newspapers. One hundred years ago, newsy items that occurred throughout the Sullivan County were well-recorded in articles found withi ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Cochecton: (Category); ... writings indicate that Cochecton was either the first or the second permanent settlement in Sullivan County. Records show that a group of exploring Swedes, who traveled from Connecticut, settled along ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Cemetery Interrment Records ...: (Genealogy Department); ... recording the information from the gravestones, then compiling them into binders. Many of the volumes have been indexed to make them more user-friendly. I am attempting to update them with the help of ...; Created on 12 March 2015
10. Vinyl Record Exhibit ...: (Pictures); Vinyl is making a comeback these days. Come and show the kiddies how Music has traditionally been released and listened to. View Gallery; Created on 18 December 2014
11. Vinyl Record ...: (Past Exhibits); Long before the iPod and CDs people used to listen to records pressed on Vinyl. View Gallery ...; Created on 18 December 2014
12. Sullivan County Historical Society 2020 Election: (News); ... did not happen. While it may not be the best way to conduct the election for officers and board members it was decided to hav3e a mail in vote. All SCHS members of record will be receiving one ballot per ...; Created on 01 December 2020
13. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... the Hudson River Anthem, “ The River that Flows Both Ways”, which Pete Seeger liked so much he recorded twice with Rick accompanying him on the Grammy winning CD, “Tomorrow‘s Children”. You can read more ...; Created on 12 March 2020
14. John Conway Book Talk and Signing: (News); ... in the Times Herald-Record and since 2004 every Friday in the Sullivan County Democrat. “In Further Retrospect” will be available for purchase. Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville at 6 p.m. ...; Created on 11 March 2020
15. Our Digitized Newspaper collection is now available to the public!: (Museum News); ... some from the Sullivan County Record All of these newspapers are searchable and indexed for ease of finding information and subjects that appear in them. We have the following years and ...; Created on 17 February 2018
16. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... all the excuse I need to record those years in photos and words for the town,” Elsie once exclaimed. “I always say what’s on my mind and I don’t mince words. I’ve lived here all my life, I know the history ...; Created on 17 January 2016
17. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... County. Harold has lived in South Fallsburg for all of his ninety-two years. That in itself is certainly a historical oddity, maybe even a record. True, he was absent temporarily to attend college ...; Created on 17 January 2016
18. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); Reprinted from The Times Herald-Record Woodstock Commemorative Edition Text copyright 1994 The Times Herald-Record The last bedraggled fan sloshed out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more than 25 year ...; Created on 04 January 2016
19. Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... t all records and documents, until 1866, were written in German. According to the Historian Quinlan, Charles J. Langhorn built the first hotel in the village and being an admirer of Thomas Jefferson, ...; Created on 26 December 2015
20. General Store: (Now Showing); The General Store was the commercial center of town and the primary place you would sell/purchase goods and collect your mail. Much like a Walmart of the 1800's, just about anything you needed was available ...; Created on 18 December 2014
21. Sullivan County Long Beards: (History Makers); ... record several times. Other youth events consist of but not limited to ice fishing, pond fishing, mentored hunt and a youth deer hunt photographed live by the Eddie Adams Photo workshop. The chapter has ...; Created on 18 October 2014
22. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... business, financial and operational files into a coherent and orderly system. Bill’s eye for managerial detail has benefited the volunteer staff and museum guests alike with access to records and documents ...; Created on 18 October 2014
23. John B. (Jack) Niflot: (History Preserver); ... heritage” and also served as an officer and board member of the Upper Delaware Council for nearly two decades. Jack’s photographs, research records, postcard collections, poetry and other writings have ...; Created on 25 November 2013
24. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... area, tanneries, lumber and agricultural industry. A saw mill was operated just upstream of the Bridge in the late 1800's. In 1882 one of the few Hex murders on record in the Upper Delaware Valley wa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
25. Early History of Youngsville: (Callicoon); ... interesting item that we might mention here concerns the Callicoon Local Record, now poopularly known as the Sullivan County Record. It was first published in Youngsville by William T. Morgan; the dat ...; Created on 03 November 2011
26. History of Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... t all records and documents, until 1866, were written in German. According to the Historian Quinlan, Charles J. Langhorn built the first hotel in the village and being an admirer of Thomas Jefferson, ...; Created on 03 November 2011
27. Salmon Steele: (Rockland); ... from Dr. Edward Livingston, one of which would become the site of the tannery that would be built that same year along the shores of the Little Beaverkill Stream. Early records show that the tannery was ...; Created on 07 October 2011
28. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); ... ither Monticello nor Binghamton had any idea or record of how the sign made the hadj to the district offices. "Fortunately the order at the foundry was able to be canceled. Another order for a sign to be ...; Created on 22 September 2011
29. Salmon Steele and the Morsston Tannery: (Rockland); ... from Dr. Edward Livingston, one of which would become the site of the tannery that would be built that same year along the shores of the Little Beaverkill Stream. Early records show that the tannery was ...; Created on 16 August 2011
30. Sheeley Family Cemetery: (Neversink); FAMILY: Sheeley NOTE: see SC Hist Soc for Removal Records REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
31. Porter Cemetery: (Neversink); NOTE: see SC Hist Soc for Removal Records REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
32. Mission Statement: (Historical Society); ... for the enlightenment of future generations. This preservation is accomplished through the storage of historical records and documents, the acquisition of artifacts illustrative of different periods in ...; Created on 01 June 2010
33. About the Society: (Historical Society); The History of Sullivan County Historical Society The records of the New York State Education Department show that the Sullivan County Historical Society was organized on September 18, 1886. ...; Created on 05 April 2010
34. Charlotte M. Osterhout: (History Preserver); ... for future reference. She spent hours exploring these records of the past and they became another source of family connections, which she could share. If you visit the archives of the ...; Created on 11 August 2008
35. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... used both by the local and metropolitan newspapers. In 1968 he opened Revonah Records, a Bluegrass label, from a studio located in his home. Artists came from as far away as Virginia ...; Created on 11 August 2007
36. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... records. We can only share a few biographical facts which do poor justice to such an active and valuable life. James Quinlan was born in 1818 and died in 1874; the year after his work ...; Created on 11 August 2006
37. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... an County records the respect in which Skinner was held. "He was honored in a jocose way by the hardy men who followed his example. By general consent, he was constituted Admiral of all the waters of the r ...; Created on 11 August 2005
38. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... and endurance. If we had tried our hand at Track and Field events, how closely would we have measured up to the following? 40 Yard Dash: 4.2 seconds 100-meter Dash: 10.2 seconds (world decathlon record) ...; Created on 11 August 2003
39. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... 200 calls per airing. Later in that year, he began writing a column about the county for the Times Herald Record entitled “Retrospect.” He wrote this weekly column for eleven years while he was also writing ...; Created on 11 August 2002
40. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... tradition records that at age six she was stationed on the barricades of the stockade located on the Delaware River and was instructed to fire the muskets handed up to her by the women below who loaded ...; Created on 11 August 2001
41. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... well as County Records Management Officer, entailing responsibilities for all County Records. Also, in 1974 Bill began his twenty-four-year association with the Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society and served ...; Created on 11 August 1998
42. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... to speed up acquisition of records and case histories. There was concern shown for jurors. Sheriff juries, notorious for allowing people with “clout” to avoid jury service, were done ...; Created on 01 June 1998
43. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... and by the next year the Society’s records indicate that he took the lead in reconstituting the Sullivan County Historical Society which had become inactive during the Second World War. Newspaper articles ...; Created on 11 August 1997

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