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1. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... Call 845 434-8044 for more info, or visit the website at www.scnyhistory.org. Save the date- Saturday March 7 2 PM Catskill Readers Theater will be presenting a Women’s History Program in conjunction ...; Created on 29 January 2020
2. Rockland: (Category); ... Massachusetts and Connecticut visited the Big Beaverkill Flats and reported the existence of 10,000 acres of rich level land covered with pine, hemlock and laurel. For a number of years, only trappers ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Highland: (Category); ... . The Town of Highland was a slow growing area. The primary industry during its early development was lumbering. The part of Highland along the Delaware River was one of the more active sites where timb ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Forestburgh: (Category); ... in 1700's when it was a pioneer schoolhouse. Title search indicated Abe Cuddeback as owner, before the town was even established. It is now relocated at the Town Hall site. A marker plaque dedicate ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Delaware: (Category); ... tores, a milliner, a large sawmill, a newspaper, a pharmacy, a jewelry store, and at least two saloons. One of the latter had a special "ladies entrance." Another was the site of a notorious axe murder. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. County History: (Category); ... Lenape first visited the area centuries before—they came to enjoy the fresh air, the clean water, and the magnificent scenery. The railroads had long promoted the fresh mountain air of Sullivan ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Cochecton: (Category); ... on. During the mid-l9th century leather tanning was an active industry in Sullivan County and the site of one of the larger tanneries was in Stevensburgh (Cochecton Center), constructed in 1840 by Alfred ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Cemeteries: (Category); ... so they can be made available to everyone. The Society does not plan on posting the Cemetery listings by individuals on its website, only the names of the Cemeteries with indication of those we have ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Callicoon: (Category); ... came from High Falls in Ulster County and were of English and Scottish decent. Legend says they had to hew their way through the forest for 10 miles in Callicoon before a homestead site could be found. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Bethel: (Category); ... event. Today, we have concerts & farm markets on the site and visitors from all over the world come to our town year round to visit. There are plans to make a permanent music site in the surrounding land. Cons ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello ...: (Thompson); SCHS Observer; November 9, 1964 "A blue-and-gold historical marker has been erected on the front lawn of the Intercounty Trust Company in the village of Monticello to mark the site of the first buildin ...; Created on 22 September 2011
12. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... about Rick on his website http://www.ricknestler.com. Donna Nestler is classically trained in flute, bassoon and guitar, but she plays the banjolele. The banjolele is a four-stringed instrument with ...; Created on 12 March 2020
13. Please donate to help us preserve the Republican Watchman!: (Announcements); ... Main Menu of our Website. Please designate the donation is for the newspaper archival project. Money donated to this project will only be used for preserving and maintaining this great Historical treasure. ...; Created on 14 September 2016
14. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... or four days, the site became a countercultural mini-nation in which minds were open, drugs were all but legal and love was "free". The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07pm August 15 and continued u ...; Created on 04 January 2016
15. Monticello: (Thompson); ... site of his future home. The house was located on the turnpike (Broadway) across from the park and was completed by December. John lived there until he died. Samuel was still involved with the turnpik ...; Created on 26 December 2015
16. Cemetery Interrment Records: (Genealogy Department); ... also keep a listing of all the local cemeteries in Sullivan County on our Website! Go to Cemeteries ...; Created on 12 March 2015
17. Woodstock: (Now Showing); ... er the concert, the site, considered hallowed ground to some and a nemisies by others, became embroiled in a political struggle that for decades would pit neighbor against neighbor, generation against generati ...; Created on 12 April 2013
18. Early History of Youngsville: (Callicoon); ... near the site which St. Francis Church now adorns. John B. Spencer was another early settler and when the Youngsville Post office was established in 1851 he became its first Postmaster. Other early ...; Created on 03 November 2011
19. 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
20. Searching For Gillette: (Neversink); A researcher from Utah visited the museum this morning [August 20, 2011] to find information concerning his ancestor, Horace Gillette. The statistical particulars were known as to Horace's life; bor ...; Created on 07 October 2011
21. Salmon Steele: (Rockland); Family researchers from Tennesee visited the archival room at the Museum on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011, in search of Steele ancestry, a family who located in the northern portion of Sullivan County early ...; Created on 07 October 2011
22. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... l to have earned a commission had he been spared. He leaves to his family a rich legacy of affection and suffering in a noble cause." "In 1873 there was a private school on the site where the Cath ...; Created on 29 September 2011
23. Stone Arch Bridge Saved For Posterity: (General History); ... s on three parcels of land at the site of the bridge as a parks and recreation site. "The Historical Society is working also on saving the Roebling Bridge, which was the experimental model for the Brook ...; Created on 22 September 2011
24. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... ome kind of marker, perhaps a blue and gold metal sign, to explain this old friend. A small ceremony will take place officially rededicating the site of the milestone as soon as arrangements are complete ...; Created on 22 September 2011
25. Mystery of Missing Marker: (Thompson); ... July, 1963, the familiar NYS blue and gold sign, which indicated the site of Camp Holly, encampment of the 143rd NYVI during the Civil War vanished from its usual place. "Repeated inquiries by Mrs. Glad ...; Created on 22 September 2011
26. Old Mansion House: (Bethel); ... n to the Old Mansion House, which many regard as the most superior site in the village." ...; Created on 15 September 2011
27. Searching For Gillette: (Research Department); A researcher from Utah visited the museum this morning [August 20, 2011] to find information concerning his ancestor, Horace Gillette. The statistical particulars were known as to Horace's life; bor ...; Created on 20 August 2011
28. Salmon Steele and the Morsston Tannery: (Rockland); Family researchers from Tennesee visited the archival room at the Museum on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011, in search of Steele ancestry, a family who located in the northern portion of Sullivan County early ...; Created on 16 August 2011
29. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... has carefully prepared the site for the chimney’s fall. Well experienced within this line of work, Cottrell has had much experience in bringing down such structures. However, the Cochecton chimney’s demolition ...; Created on 28 June 2011
30. D&H Canal: (General History); The D & H Canal: An Engineering and Entrepreneurial Challenge Excerpted from D&H Canal Historical Society Website. Pictures: Taken from the SCHS Archives The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile, ...; Created on 04 June 2010
31. Roser Cemetery: (Callicoon); REF: Located on Route 149, Youngsvillle, NY, opposite Greenhill Cemetery. FAMILIES: Information on the burials in this cemetary is not yet available. AKA: Roser Family Cemetery ...; Created on 03 June 2010
32. Edward Van Put: (History Preserver); ... York State Public Libraries and the Smithsonian Institute, as well as university archives such as Yale and Cornell. Some archives could be visited, but from others he received material via inter-library ...; Created on 11 August 2009
33. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... His first raft was built on Tammany flats opposite present-day Callicoon and consisted of six white pine poles suitable to become ship masts, each seventy feet long and held together by hardwood spindles ...; Created on 11 August 2005
34. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... es. One went to Livingston Manor and the other was designated for Roscoe. Leon Siegel was helpful in obtaining the old Roscoe station site for the caboose and after sufficient private contributions had b ...; Created on 11 August 2005
35. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... Zoning Board of Appeals said no. Needing a site shaped like an amphitheater and owned by someone who had sufficient surrounding land for camping, administration and the like, the ...; Created on 01 June 2004
36. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... 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 ...; Created on 11 August 2003
37. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... probably look ahead to the day when a new or restored hotel would rise on the site of the old Terrace Hill House in which the traditions which she carefully nourished of concern for guests and staff, ...; Created on 11 August 2002
38. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... Chase supervised, monitored, inspected, visited and managed sixty schools in the Third District of Sullivan County. At this stage of her life, Mrs. Chase knew exactly what she wanted for her schools and ...; Created on 11 August 2001
39. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... School, Max met Eve Margolin, the daughter of Lewis and Anna Margolin, who owned the Kiamesha Lodge and Country Club which had evolved from a small farm and was located at the present site of the Hebrew ...; Created on 11 August 1999
40. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... He caddied at the golf course (35 cents for nine holes) which was located on the present site of Monticello High School and learned about growing vegetables and flowers. “Working in the garden was my country ...; Created on 01 June 1998
41. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... to Albany and obtain the services of an official photographer to take pictures of these sites. The Society has many of these photographs in its archives. Several people who knew Burbank ...; Created on 11 August 1997

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