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1. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); ... Park (a portion of the canal’s original route) at the end of Bova Road in Summitville, easily accessed via Route 209. Dioramas of canal equipment and photos/illustrations of canal life fill the Center, ...; Created on 11 July 2021
2. Rockland: (Category); ... attempted to pioneer the area because of troublesome Indians and lack of passable roads. The first settlers in the Town of Rockland were the Jehiel Stewart family and his brother Luther, who ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Railroads ...: (Category); History of the Railroads in Sullivan County Reports and News clippings from the Museum Archives. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Neversink: (Category); ... for the most part, roads were all dirty and dusty. A caption for a photo in “Time and the Valley” reads “Roads were scraped every spring and ditches were opened. Thank-you-ma’ams took care of drainage ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... was still a part of Ulster County. During the early and middle 1700`s the construction of forts all along the old mine road (Route 209) was necessary to protect the settlers from hostile Indians. There ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Lumberland: (Category); ... Erie Railroad on the Pennsylvania side, destined to become the curbs and sidewalks of New York City. It was about the early 1870’s that Glen Spey was becoming a summer resort residence of such large ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Liberty: (Category); ... then known as the Blue Mountain Country, they settled to the north west of the present Village of Liberty near to Revonah Lake, formerly known as the Broadhead Pond. Our early settlers came from Connecticut ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. History Makers: (Category); The History Maker Award is given to a person who has had a significant and positive influence on the life of Sullivan County or, more broadly, on the life of the nation or the world. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Highland: (Category); ... It was not until the Delaware and Hudson canal was opened in 1828 that the region was opened to the outside world. When the Erie Railroad was completed the area began to enjoy a tourist business. T ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Fremont: (Category); ... and was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. He became its second supervisor. There was no road from Hankins to Liberty. Quinlan relates that he reached Liberty by following a route marked ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Forestburgh: (Category); ... his burial. By Act of legislature in 1837, Forestburgh became a town taken from lands of Thompson and Mamakating, part of the hardenburgh patent. William Broadhead was the town's first supervisor a ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Fallsburg: (Category); The History of the Town of Fallsburg By Judy Magie The History of the Town of Fallsburg can be divided into two parts, one describing the town and its growth before the railroad and the other relating ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Delaware: (Category); ... dner established a paper mill. Callicoon Depot, as it was first known, did not exist until the building of the Erie, America's first long line railroad. During construction of the Erie's Delaware Di ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. 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
15. Cochecton: (Category); ... merchant of the town. He was active in the promotion of the Cochecton-Newburgh Turnpike, which opened in 1810 and was considered the first major toll road to the western wilderness. Mr. Taylor became the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. Callicoon: (Category); ... none of whom were willing to construct roads. According to one old account, there was but a solid wall of forest trees and laurel and rhododendron shrubs from what is now White Sulphur Springs to the Delaware ...; Created on 30 November -0001
17. Eagin Road Cemetery ...: (Callicoon); LOCATION: FAMILY: First Settler Mrs. Wood AKA: REF: None NOTES: File 6E; Created on 03 June 2010
18. The Great Monticello Fire - Rep-Watchman Aug 13th 1909: (Thompson); ... h wind fanned the flames into a roaring, raging' wall of fire which swept down Broadway consuming everything before it The following is an exceprt from our new Digitized collection of the Republic ...; Created on 16 February 2018
19. The Golden Age of The Catskills: (Video); ... n County to reside on during the warmer months. While some used that land to build a hotel, others turned it into a bungalow colony. “Every road, every place had some resort, and it’s interesting, you c ...; Created on 06 July 2017
20. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... for visiting outdoorsmen. Willis also worked as a sawyer and carpenter, but was perhaps best known as being a stone mason. With the coming of the railroad during the latter part of the nineteenth century, ...; Created on 17 January 2016
21. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... r knew that little Bethel, with a population of 3,900 souls, wasn't set to handle the coming flood of humanity. Two weeks before the festival, Wagner, 61, heard that Woodstock Ventures had already sold 1 ...; Created on 04 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. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); Hurleyville, New York is a hamlet in the Town of Fallsburg, New York in Sullivan County, New York. The town lies along County Road 104 and was originally developed because it was on the main route between ...; Created on 26 December 2015
24. The Fallsburgh Tunnel: (Fallsburg); ... causing serious problems for the railroad company. Throughout the spring of 1930, railroad workers worked at the tunnel below South Fallsburgh, relining the northern portal with a new ceiling of curved ...; Created on 25 November 2012
25. From the Genealogist: (Genealogy Department); Looking for information on Martin and Elizabeth Duttweiller who owned a farm on Swiss Hill Road in Jeffersonville, NY between 1859 to 1892. They were born in Switzerland in 1827 and 1824. Martin was a ...; Created on 11 May 2012
26. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... The Cochecton bridge with its white pine arches was covered and boasted two roadways. It withstood the storms and floods until April 1846, when the western pier was undermined and fell together with ...; Created on 03 November 2011
27. Early History of Youngsville: (Callicoon); ... fine hemlock trees in this section, the bark of which was used in the tanning process, many tanneries were set up along the creek. Then, with the building of the Erie Railroad in the Callicoon section ...; Created on 03 November 2011
28. Mutton Hill Burying Ground....cont: (Neversink); "...In the southwest section is a monument over 12 feet high on a three-foot base standing like a sentinel guarding his little encampment. On its northwest side, facing the road, is the following inscription; ...; Created on 27 October 2011
29. Mutton Hill Burying Ground...cont: (Neversink); "....But let us get back to our little burying ground which is bordered on two sides by dense woods, on the northwest by the Mutton Hill road, and on the southwest by broad sheep pastures. There are about ...; Created on 27 October 2011
30. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... e onto a shaded dirt road. Then driving one-half mile in a southeasterly direction on this dirt road, we come to a four corners. On our left is the pound schoolhouse, or better known today as District ...; Created on 27 October 2011
31. 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
32. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... the Delaware Valley from Deposit to Port Jervis. Another area industry was the quarrying of blue stone. Stone harvested in the region was transported from here across the river to the Erie Railroad by ...; Created on 20 October 2011
33. Trunk Line 4: (Rockland); ... e to eliminate the section of road at Old Morsston from the trunk line. "Two surveys have been made one beginning at the Ross place now occupied by E O Van Wagner and the other starting near the home ...; Created on 23 September 2011
34. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... tle west of the Black Lake Road junction on the north side of Route 17-B, near White Lake. Mr. Robert Schlicting, New York State Department of Highways engineer on the reconstruction of 17-B, has placed ...; Created on 22 September 2011
35. Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... on two sides by dense woods, on the northwest by the Mutton Hill road, and on the southwest by the broad sheep pastures. There are about 35 graves with headstones or markers bearing inscriptions. While ...; Created on 31 August 2011
36. 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
37. Sullivan County Veterans: (History Makers); ... on the life of Sullivan County, or, more broadly, on the life of the nation or world. By extension, that includes any group of people with a common bond fitting the criteria for the award. ...; Created on 11 August 2010
38. D&H Canal: (General History); ... ny became America's first million-dollar private enterprise. The Canal operated successfully until the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company made a unique transition in 1898 into a railroad company, becoming Amer ...; Created on 04 June 2010
39. Parks Baby Cemetery: (Liberty); LOCATION: along Dahlia Road NOTE: no longer exists, have partial listing REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
40. Workman’s Circle Brotherhood 281 of Woodridge NY: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Goodwin Road, Mountaindale, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
41. Workman’s Circle Brotherhood of Centerville: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Goodwin road, Centerville Station, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
42. Vielie Cemetery: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Dryer Road, Neversink, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 NOTE: Neversink- Fallsburg ...; Created on 03 June 2010
43. Sullivan County Potter’s Field: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Tunnel Hill Road, behind Gray Cemetery AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
44. Single Grave: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Behind Fallsburg Central School. Standing on the left side of the school parking lot, look towards the Pines Ski Hill. You will see markings of construction road used ddurisng school landscaping ...; Created on 03 June 2010
45. Ohave Shalem Cemetery: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Goodwin Road, Mountaindale, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
46. Mongaup Cemetery: (Fallsburg); LOCATION: Cemetery Road, Hurleyville, NY AKA: Fallsburg Township, Potters Field FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery is not available at this time. ...; Created on 03 June 2010
47. Long Family Cemetery Beechwoods: (Delaware); LOCATION: Baurenfiend Road, Beechwoods AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
48. Layton Family Cemetery: (Delaware); LOCATION: Tower Road, Beechwoods. Beside the road on the edge of the lawn of a private residence. AKA: FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery is available at the Sullivan County Museum, ...; Created on 03 June 2010
49. Hortonville Church Cemetery: (Delaware); LOCATION: North Branch Road, Hortonvillle, NY, behind church. AKA: FAMILY: Information on the burials at this cemetery can be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY. ...; Created on 03 June 2010
50. Holy Cross Cemetery: (Delaware); LOCATION: Creamery Road, Callicoon, NY AKA: FAMILY: At the present time, there is no information avilable on burials in this cemetery. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
51. Un-Named Cemetary (Poley?): (Delaware); LOCATION: Tower Road, Beechwoods, NY AKA: Poley Cemetery? FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747. REF: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
52. Callicoon Cemetery: (Delaware); LOCATION: Creamery Road, Callicoon, NY AKA: FAMILY: Information about burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
53. Single Grave: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Wm Keesler's property (1979) Along old road to Cochecton Center: discontinued about 1970. AKa: FAMILY: Single grave of woman to be buried in winter; unable to make it uphill so burie ...; Created on 03 June 2010
54. East Cochecton Cemetery: (Cochecton); LOCATION: Old Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike at the corner of Cross Road AKA: FAMILY: Began in 1886. Information on burials in this cemetery is available at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, ...; Created on 03 June 2010
55. Quick Family Cemetery: (Callicoon); LOCATION: County Road 44 FAMILY: Information on families buried at this cemetery is not available at this time. AKA: None REF: None NOTE: None ...; Created on 03 June 2010
56. North Branch Cemetery: (Callicoon); LOCATION: County Road 121, Alien Rd and Buck Brook, North Branch, NY FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery can be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 ...; Created on 03 June 2010
57. Heavenly Rest Cemetery: (Callicoon); LOCATION: County Road 121, North Branch, NY FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY AKA: None REF: 1991 partial ...; Created on 03 June 2010
58. Greenhill Cemetery: (Callicoon); LOCATION: Off County Road 149 in Youngsville, NY FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: None REF: 1995 by CMO NOTES: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
59. Callicoon Center Cemetery: (Callicoon); LOCATION: Hessinger Road, Callicoon Center, NY FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY AKA: REF: 1930 by GAB NOTES: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
60. Soule Cemetery: (Bethel); LOCATION: Mt. Hope Road between Swan Lake and Horseshoe Pond FAMILY: Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: ...; Created on 03 June 2010
61. Dureya Family Cemetery: (Bethel); LOCATION: Old Stage Road, Route 17B FAMILY: Information about burials at this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: Hoenniger Farm - Private ...; Created on 03 June 2010
62. Coveranter Church Cemetery: (Bethel); LOCATION: County Road 141 FAMILY: Stewart Family - Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12746 AKA: Stewart Family Cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
63. Briscoe-Hurd Rd Cemetery: (Bethel); LOCATION: Hurd Road FAMILY: Judson Family - Information on burials in this cemetery may be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: Judson Family - Hurd ...; Created on 03 June 2010
64. Mission Statement: (Historical Society); ... the county's history, and the mounting of both temporary and permanent exhibits. The activities of the Society include regular meetings open to the public for the discussion of county history and broade ...; Created on 01 June 2010
65. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... was fresh air and wholesome food, became during the following century, a 1,400 acre entertainment complex. A leisurely walk along a country road was no longer sufficient fare. Joining the original facilities ...; Created on 11 August 2008
66. Charlotte M. Osterhout: (History Preserver); ... background. For many people genealogy is the stepping-stone to a broader interest in history and Charlotte also had the ability to relate some of the family details with larger events taking place in the ...; Created on 11 August 2008

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