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1. Highland: (Category); ... ostal department determined that there were already too many places with the same name. Not to be discouraged, the people came up with the name Yulan, which is the Japanese word for laurel. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
2. 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
3. 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
4. Cochecton: (Category); ... an educated Irishman, was convinced by a group of lumbermen he met in Philadelphia to move to Cochecton. He did so and married a daughter of Dr. Calkin. It should be noted that same year the first school ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Callicoon: (Category); ... Jefferson and called his hotel the Jefferson House. The name of the village was taken from this. Youngsville was settled by Samuel M. Young. He built a large log house and established the first saw mill ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Along The Neversink in the Seventies: (Category); ... were first published within the Liberty Register, and later reprinted into a booklet by the same publisher. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... oving men around... I said at one point, 'I don't care if was a convention of 50,000 ministers," I would have felt the same way." In the cultural-political atmosphere of 1969, promoters Kornfeld and ...; Created on 04 January 2016
8. Monticello: (Thompson); ... Two brothers, Samuel F. Jones and John Patterson Jones, built Monticello. The turnpike company entrusted Samuel F. Jones to explore the vast forests west of the Mamakating valley to find the best route ...; Created on 26 December 2015
9. Postcards from Bethel: (Bethel); The Museum has an extensive collection of Postcards from the Golden and Silver Hotel ages that you can browse and buy. Here is a small sample from the Town of Bethel Collection. View Gallery ...; Created on 19 December 2015
10. Postcards from Bethel: (Pictures); The Museum has an extensive collection of Postcards from the Golden and Silver Hotel ages that you can browse and buy. Here is a small sample from the Town of Bethel Collection. View Gallery ...; Created on 19 December 2015
11. 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
12. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... side of the Bridge occurred during the same summer. December of 1976 saw the Bridge honored as a Landmark by its inclusion to the National Registry of Historic Places, which made it eligible for federa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
13. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... to Cochecton and began work on another bridge with two piers spanning a distance of about 600 feet. This bridge was completed in 1822. It was constructed upon nearly the same plan of the bridge built ...; Created on 03 November 2011
14. Early History of Youngsville: (Callicoon); According to historians of Sullivan County, the present village of Youngsville, situated in the Township of Callicoon, was formally settled by Samuel M. Young, a member of the respectable Liberty family ...; Created on 03 November 2011
15. Mutton Hill Burying Ground....cont: (Neversink); ... "Henry Reynolds. Born at Peekskill, N.Y. 1742. Died at Neversink, N.Y. 1827. Mary Fowler, his wife. Born 1743. Died 1825." On the northeast side of this same monument are inscribed the words: "For loyal ...; Created on 27 October 2011
16. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... grew at this same spot when vast amounts of lumber began the journey down the Delaware from the holding bank located here. For over a century the rafting industry was a successful enterprise throughout ...; Created on 20 October 2011
17. Fallsburgh Cemetery Fire: (Fallsburg); ... after the damage was discovered, prevented delay of the same. "The entire cemetery was burned over and monuments blackened before the flames were extinquished by John Eidle, Woodbourne fire warden a ...; Created on 07 October 2011
18. 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
19. Along the Neversink...: (Neversink); I saw a picture sometime ago of four old Neversink men who were 80,or 90. or 100, as the case might be. They were, as I remember, James Curry, Highby Everet, Nehemiah Everet and Sam (not Samuel) Barnes. ...; Created on 07 October 2011
20. Along the Neversink in the Seventies: (Neversink); ... were first published within the Liberty Register, and later reprinted into a booklet by the same publisher. ...; Created on 07 October 2011
21. Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... inscription; "Henry Reynolds. Born at Peeksville, N.Y. 1742. Died at Neversink, N.Y. 1827. Mary Fowler, his wife. Born 1743. died 1825." On the northeast side of this same monument are inscribed the word ...; Created on 31 August 2011
22. 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
23. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... the same route. Eventually, four pipelines followed the original course. It was intended to operate for fifteen years, but with the later discovery of new oil fields in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and ...; Created on 28 June 2011
24. About the Society: (Historical Society); ... those interested to gather for a meeting to reorganize the Society, which met in April of that year. In May of that same year, the revitalized Society elected the following as officers: ...; Created on 05 April 2010
25. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... leaders. The same month of the merger he founded Granite Associates L.P., a private investment company focused on capital appreciation utilizing a diversified investment strategy. He continues to serve ...; Created on 11 August 2007
26. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... Rockland area. At the same time that the museum building was being acquired, Wilmer and his friends who shared his enthusiasm for the O&W also began thinking of acquiring a trout car: one of the reg ...; Created on 11 August 2005
27. 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
28. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... School, the Harris Hospital and to various senior citizen groups. At the same time she became Secretary for the Van Keuren Family Cemetery and became an informal resource for people in the area seeking ...; Created on 11 August 2003
29. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... e a better adjustment to school, but at the same time, became more aware of the exhaustion of her father who worked twelve hours a day for meager wages as a pressman in the garment industry. Sensing t ...; Created on 11 August 2002
30. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... and provided new textbooks (many were samples from vendors) to her teachers who often were using textbooks she had used as a new teacher in the 1880’s. These conferences allowed her teachers to meet and ...; Created on 11 August 2001
31. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... Town of Delaware historian. About the same time Tom and Elaine DeGaetani with their great vision of the region’s potential were bringing together various organizations to form the Delaware Valley Arts ...; Created on 11 August 2001
32. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... Marjorie Chase Durland, a local girl with deep family roots in Monticello and the Town of Thompson. After many house moves in their first few years together, Bill and Sam (Marge) raised their four children ...; Created on 11 August 1998
33. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... and he is comfortable anywhere. The fact that he has lived in the same house on West Broadway since 1941 typifies the man. Sullivan County is home and he remains the man he has always been. The courthouse ...; Created on 01 June 1998
34. John Raleigh Mott: (History Makers); ... Chicago wrote of him: There is something like the mountains and the sea in John R. Mott. He will always be the same, very simple and a bit sublime. A nice description of a Livingston ...; Created on 11 August 1997
35. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... have used the same word to describe him: meticulous. He made precise maps, wrote pamphlets on the county’s history and began imposing some order on the Society’s archives. He was active in the Chamber ...; Created on 11 August 1997
36. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... duty, he did come down with malaria and frozen feet. By 1952 he had graduated Bates College and the same year married a young woman from Cochecton, Dorothy Bertsch. He completed his studies ...; Created on 11 August 1996
37. Frederick A. Cooke: (History Makers); ... had left the county. Despite family responsibilities, he graduated from the New York University College of Medicine in 1890. The death of his wife and infant son the same year prompted him to respond to ...; Created on 01 June 1994

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