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1. Research Request (SCHSIRR1): (Request Research); Open a request for Research; Created on 31 December 2015
2. Research Department: (Category); Sullivan County Historical Society Research Department Department Head: Fred Fries Email Address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: (845) 434 - 8044 Our organization is a small, all volunteer organization ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Neversink: (Category); ... went the mile or two to their nearest one or two room school. There were 20 of these small schools in the Tri-Valley School District. Those people going on to high school had to be bussed to either Ellenville ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Liberty: (Category); ... As the land was cleared of the dense dark hemlock trees that these early settlers found, the area went through various stages of development. After the small farms were cleared, the tanneries were constructed. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Highland: (Category); ... places in this town. the town is sparsely populated and made up of woodland, streams and small lakes. Highland was not settled until after the Revolutionary War, although one of the bloodiest battle ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Genealogy Department: (Category); Sullivan County Historical Society Genealogy Department Department Head: Suzanne Cecil Email Address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: (845) 434 - 8044 Our organization is a small, all volunteer organization ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Forestburgh: (Category); Forestburgh is one of the smallest of the fifteen towns of Sullivan County bordered by Thompson, Lumberland and Mamakating. Early inhabitants in the 1780's were of Celtic, German and Sweedish ancestry. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Fallsburg: (Category); ... settlers established a small settlement near the ford while others continued north, crossing the Sheldrake Creek, and settleing on a ridge east of Kiameshia Lake and Lake Anawana. This settlement was primarily ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Departments: (Category); Sullivan County Historical Society List of Departments Our organization is a small, all volunteer organization that has a limited amount of resources and funds. To greatly help us attend to your requests ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Delaware: (Category); ... er put his first small raft of logs into the Delaware just below Callicoon, and floated it to market in Philadelphia. This grew into a business, which took millions of board feet of timber from the fore ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. County History: (Category); ... here from writers such as Alfred B. Street, Charles Fenno Hoffman, and Frank Forrester, and painters such as Henry Inman, came here to fish and hunt. As the end of the 19th century approached, these small ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Cochecton: (Category); ... ent needs for homeowners and farmers alike. The Town of Cochecton is comprised of 38.06 square miles making it the second smallest town in Sullivan County. While it has several small hamlets, it has ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Cemeteries: (Category); ... the Historical Society or leave a comment to have them corrected. If you have listings for any cemeteries, including small family cemeteries,we would welcome your sharing them with the Historical Society ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. Callicoon: (Category); ... Jacob Quick, who chose a site on a small stream which empties onto the East Branch of the Delaware River at Jeffersonville. Quick cleared many fields and built a saw mill and sold grain, hay and lumber. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. Bethel: (Category); The Town of Bethel was founded in 1809, and is located in the heart of Sullivan County. It is comprised of many small hamlets. In this brief history I will try to include a little something about each ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); ... archivist, officer, and a person to go to when a historical question comes upon. He will be greatly missed. The following is taken from a Smallwood-White Lake Fire Company posting on Facebook. ...; Created on 29 March 2020
17. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... a small banjo body and a fretted ukulele neck. Donna has traveled the world performing, teaching and convincing people that “banjoleles rule”. Dan Berger is an outstanding blues harmonica player, who ...; Created on 12 March 2020
18. Our Digitized Newspaper collection is now available to the public!: (Museum News); ... papers available: Republican Watchman 1909-1910 Sullivan County Record 1873 Viewing at the museum is free but copies of issues can be made available for a small fee that will go to digitizing ...; Created on 17 February 2018
19. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... to the scenes being played out by the daily railroad traffic. Schooled during the era of one-room rural schools, she attended the small rural school of District Five, Hartwood, where Elsie developed a ...; Created on 17 January 2016
20. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... stock Ventures. He had a Bethel town permit to run a music festival. "I think it cost $12 or $8 or something like that," Tiber said."It was very vague. It just said I had permission to run an arts and ...; Created on 04 January 2016
21. Monticello: (Thompson); ... owns of Thompson, Neversink, and Bethel. On May 5, 1795, he and his family moved from their New York City residence to his small log cabin in the wilderness. When Mr. Thompson arrived he brought with him se ...; Created on 26 December 2015
22. Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... , the gas lines for light were replaced by electricity, a village dump and reservoir were built, water lines were laid, additional streets were developed and all streets paved. Small area schools consolidat ...; Created on 26 December 2015
23. 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
24. 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
25. Concord Remembered: (Pictures); ... gest resort hotel boasting, 1,200 rooms., The Imperial Room, its night club, the largest in the world, could seat 3,000 people. Some described the hotel as a small city! The Concord Remembered ex ...; Created on 01 July 2015
26. Concord Remembered: (Past Exhibits); ... gest resort hotel boasting, 1,200 rooms., The Imperial Room, its night club, the largest in the world, could seat 3,000 people. Some described the hotel as a small city! The Concord Remembered ex ...; Created on 01 July 2015
27. Sullivan County Long Beards: (History Makers); ... and preservation of habitat and promoting our hunting heritage. The volunteers of the Sullivan County Long Beards are a small group of active, dedicated members that have the youth, women and veterans ...; Created on 18 October 2014
28. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... the congregation at the Webb Horton Church in Middletown when the Hudson Presbytery offered him the chance to serve struggling Presbyterian churches in two small western Sullivan County communities. Th ...; Created on 04 April 2012
29. History of Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... , the gas lines for light were replaced by electricity, a village dump and reservoir were built, water lines were laid, additional streets were developed and all streets paved. Small area schools consolidat ...; Created on 03 November 2011
30. The Hamlet of Swamp Mills: (Tusten); ... However, this community was important in the early days of the Town of Tusten. The first town meeting was held here in 1853 and the small community was an important industrial area. At one time a sawmill, ...; Created on 20 October 2011
31. The Village of Narrowsburg: (Tusten); ... Bridge Company the right to erect the first bridge “across the Delaware River at the Narrows, in the Big Eddy,” and to collect tolls. This was a huge step forward for the small community. Quinlan, in his ...; Created on 20 October 2011
32. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... for small pox and he died in the infamous Battle of Minisink in 1779. Col. Tusten was tending 17 wounded soldiers under a ledge of rock when overtaken by Captain Brant, a Mohawk chief fighting for the ...; Created on 20 October 2011
33. Along the Neversink..: (Neversink); ... Alvan Hall's intended, Phoebe Drake, was helping her father at one of the beds and nervously sprung the trap too soon, and so got only a few birds. When her father chided her, she said; "Well, dad, a sma ...; Created on 07 October 2011
34. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... the old veteran on a small slope. Some landscaping is planned. It is not known if any other milestones survive in Sullivan County, though this reporter has seen another Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike marke ...; Created on 22 September 2011
35. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II: (Neversink); ... and in 1805 he was a member of the Assembly. "As we look around at the smaller markers we see such inscriptions as the following; "Mary, wife of Benjamin Gillett. Died 1808. Born 1765. "Betsy, w ...; Created on 01 September 2011
36. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... structure of the pumping station, the old pump house, while to the south are a barn and smaller buildings scattered about, leaving little space remaining where the tall structure can safely fall to the ...; Created on 28 June 2011
37. About the Museum: (Sullivan County Museum); ... eliminating the need for small community schools. After a series of owners, the building was acquired by the county. The Society moved into the building in November of 1972 and except for the addition ...; Created on 01 June 2010
38. Charlotte M. Osterhout: (History Preserver); ... of her youth. She turned to newspapers and obituary columns to fill in the blank spots of her memory and spent many hours tramping through county cemeteries-some small, some large-and indexing gravestones ...; Created on 11 August 2008
39. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... his History was published and those additional chapters never saw the light of day. If today these manuscripts were discovered in some obscure corner of a small-town library, they would be greeted with ...; Created on 11 August 2006
40. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... cities like Syracuse and had been built through areas of small population. Therefore, it was imperative for the O&W to develop new markets. One of these involved increasing the number of trout to attract ...; Created on 11 August 2005
41. 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
42. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... ndchild, and one great, great- grandchild. Rusty had a very successful radio and appliance business in Liberty and the couple first lived in Smallwood and later moved to Liberty. In 1945 they opened Hodge' ...; Created on 11 August 2003
43. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... campaigns through the Club to make parents and children aware of services of the Sullivan County Health Association in its drives against diphtheria, smallpox and tuberculosis. The Club implemented her ...; Created on 11 August 2001
44. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... the Dr. Tomkins’ home, as well as several smaller buildings. Owners of these structures are free to modify the interior of these structures, but to maintain historic continuity, they are not permitted ...; Created on 11 August 2000
45. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); ... ce of small-arms, machinegun, and artillery fire, he, with a companion, knocked out a tank with 1 shot. Moving to another position, he observed 3 Germans in the doorway of an enemy-held house. He killed ...; Created on 01 June 2000
46. 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
47. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... 1972 through 1974. During 1971, Marge, Bill and a small band of Sullivan County Historical Society members moved the Museum to its new home in Hurleyville. Bill was instrumental in securing the old school ...; Created on 11 August 1998
48. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... things a young boy in a small town might be expected to do. He speaks of raising pedigreed Rhode Island Red chickens and sending them to egg-laying contests conducted by agricultural schools throughout ...; Created on 01 June 1998
49. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... a small farm in West Bethel. To supplement Harry’s earnings as a highway equipment operator, the family raised chickens for eggs, kept a cow for milk and butter, fed a couple of pigs and in their garden ...; Created on 11 August 1996

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