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1. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); Museum Reopening Longtime County Attractions Reopen Thursday, July 08, 2021 An extraordinarily detailed scale model of the famed Roebling Aqueduct, which used to carry boats across the Delaware River, ...; Created on 11 July 2021
2. Tusten: (Category); The town was previously part of the Towns of Mamakating and Lumberland in 1853. Benjamin Homans was the first settler, setting himself up by Narrowsburg. The Ten Mile River Baptist Church and Tusten Stone ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Rockland: (Category); ... of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc river basins. This region was the borderland between the Iroquois nations to the North and the Algonquin of the South. The Lenni-Lenapes, a branch of the Delaware tribes, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Neversink: (Category); ... or Liberty or perhaps they had to go in and board. Our communities were quiet rural communities – the great boom of the 1800’s and the tanneries was over. The communities located along the river beds ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... was known as the D and H Canal because it traveled between the Delaware and the Hudson Rivers. It carried coal from Pennsylvania to the people in New York City. The first canal boats loaded with coal arrived ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Lumberland: (Category); A BIT OF LUMBERLAND HISTORY By an act of the State Legislature, Lumberland came into existence as a township on March 16, 1798, taking in an area that was bounded in the east by the Mongaup River and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Highland: (Category); ... part of the county along the Delaware River. The Town of Highland was named after the geography of its land. the "highlands" between the Delaware River and the Mongaup river rises to 1,300 feet in som ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Fremont: (Category); ... There were no roads to it in any direction. It was accessible by the Delaware River and its first settlers same to it up the river. Travel on the river past it must have reached a considerable volume ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Forestburgh: (Category); ... lings exist for seasonal and weekend vacationers. There are also designated areas to preserve wildlife, especially for the bald eagle habitat along the Mongaup River on County Road 43 near Lumberland ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Fallsburg: (Category); ... in the Neversink River. One month later, on April 4, the first town meeting was held in the schoolhouse where the hamlet of Fallsburg is today. The settlement was then known as Neversink Falls. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Delaware: (Category); ... Jersey, to settle at the confluence of Callicoon Creek and the Delaware River. Acting as Griswold's land agent, he built a house near what is now Upper Delaware Campgrounds. When Ross came to what cam ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. County History: (Category); ... from Ulster County on March 27, 1809, it was a heavily forested, rocky and rugged region largely inaccessible to the rest of the world. But the natural beauty of its many lakes and streams and rivers had ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Cochecton: (Category); ... the Delaware River in either 1638 or 1639 where the hamlet of Cochecton presently exists. Cochecton’s fertile flats (“Cushetunk” as it was called by the Indians meaning “low lands”) were abounding in ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. Callicoon: (Category); ... River. Callicoon continued in relative isolation until it was relatively certain the railroad would be built through in the mid-1800s. John DeWitt, born in Dutches County and later a long time merchant ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. Bethel: (Category); ... significant to this history. Well, this covered bridge was part of what was called the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike. Its replacement, which spans the Mongaup River, is now the connection between the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. Riverview Cemetery ...: (Rockland); REF: 1930 by GAB; Created on 03 June 2010
17. Riverside cemetery ...: (Fremont); REF: None; Created on 03 June 2010
18. 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
19. The Borscht Belt: (Now Showing); ... eco is incredible", (River Reporter, May 2015), "Enchanting stage presence and incredible vocal range delighted the audience" (SC Democrat, May 2015). Patti will be performing music from the “Golden ...; Created on 17 June 2016
20. Sullivan Life: (Now Showing); ... In the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution and the advent of factories driven by water power along the streams and rivers led to an increase in population attracted to the jobs. Hamlets enlarged ...; Created on 11 June 2016
21. 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
22. 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
23. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... o Revolutionary War battles were fought on its soil. Honoring the brave patriots that fought and died on the hillside overlooking the Delaware River at Minisink Ford has been an annual observance. The cerem ...; Created on 04 April 2012
24. Along The Neversink....: (Neversink); ... . Sam Benson kept the Tavern, and Jim Knight lived up the river where we went trout fishing. His home was open to all comers. Peg Lawrence also kept a tavern and in her declining years always claimed th ...; Created on 28 December 2011
25. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... by the Major across the Neversink river at Bridgeville on the line of the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike in the year 1807. It was known as the arch plan. The arches consisted of massive white pine timbers. ...; Created on 03 November 2011
26. The Hamlet of Beaver Brook: (Tusten); ... the nearby brook which runs nearly due south into the Delaware River. ...; Created on 20 October 2011
27. The Village of Narrowsburg: (Tusten); ... located on one of the broadest places on the river and also the deepest above the tidewater. The name was changed to Narrowsburg about 1840, this time to identify it with the narrows just above the big ...; Created on 20 October 2011
28. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... authority of the State of Connecticut. It was located on the Delaware River at the mouth of Ten Mile River. Little is known about these settlers other than Indians wiped them out in 1763. A later settlement ...; Created on 20 October 2011
29. Civilian Conservation Corps: (Tusten); October 6, 1933; Delaware Valley News "It looks very much as it Narrowsburgh would have a Civilian Conservation Corps camp located at the Ten Mile River Boy Scout Foundation. Forest rangers have visite ...; Created on 07 October 2011
30. Along the Neversink....: (Neversink); ... boarding house keeper along the Neversink. Jake Sharp, the millwright who was famous because he installed a ram that forced water from the river level up a 100-foot grade to supply his house with water ...; Created on 07 October 2011
31. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... that had become a highly familiar beacon to river rafts-men, railroaders and highway travelers as they passed through this section of the valley. The large brick chimney had once belched the exhaust ...; Created on 28 June 2011
32. D&H Canal: (General History); ... man-made waterway, an engineering feat of pre-industrial America that brought a new form of energy from the hills of Pennsylvania out to the Hudson River. From 1828 to 1898, mules pulled barges laden with ...; Created on 04 June 2010
33. Woodbourne Reh. Center Cemetery: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Located on Woodbourne Prison Grounds, Riverside Drive, Woodbourne, NY. Permission from prison officials is needed in order to visit. AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
34. Old Town Cochecton Cemetery: (Cochecton); LOCATION: rOUTE 97, Cochecton, across from Old Cochecton-Newburgh Turnpike on banks of the Delaware River across tracks FAMILY: Heirsville: Porr Family: Calkins Family Information on burials in this ...; Created on 03 June 2010
35. Edward Van Put: (History Preserver); ... Rail” which included a story about a dispute involving fishing rights along the Neversink River. His curiosity to learn more details about the incident led him to old copies of the Liberty Register and ...; Created on 11 August 2009
36. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... settlements on the lower river. Not only were the timbers used to construct buildings, but they provided raw materials for a thriving shipbuilding industry. In time, however, the easily accessible stands ...; Created on 11 August 2005
37. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... part of the State and the Erie whose tracks ran across the southern part. This area included a portion of the Catskills, the hills along the Chenango River and the farmland around the Finger Lakes. ...; Created on 11 August 2005
38. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... ts river banks had long since been taken; and even a hard worker like Selig could not make a living and raise a family from the rocky soil which he now owned. Fortunately, neighbors gave good advice to ...; Created on 11 August 2002
39. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... years ago with some partners, they purchased Eddy Farm on the Delaware River above Port Jervis. The hotel traced its history back to the days of the rafters and with his strong commitment to historical ...; Created on 11 August 2002
40. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... and to settle in new land along the Upper Delaware River. Included in the company were John Calkin and Moses Thomas who in 1754 left the settled world of Connecticut to face the perils of life on the frontier. ...; Created on 11 August 2001
41. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... to build a colonial fort just north of Narrowsburg to be called Fort Delaware in honor of a similar fort on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River whose location has been lost. Stock in the venture ...; Created on 11 August 1997
42. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... flight on June 24, 1931. Hoiriis and Hillig (later referred to as “the first trans-Atlantic backseat driver”) had no radio, no life saving equipment and little food. Because of a fog, they flew over Spain ...; Created on 11 August 1996

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