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1. Illinois, the twenty-first state (2020-12-03)
(Events Calendar/Illinois, the twenty-first state)
Illinois, the twenty-first state December 3, 1818 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Springfield, Illinois  ...
Created on 27 December 2015
2. 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
3. Lumberland
(Category)
... wealthy family groups as the McKensies and the Proctors. The name “Glen Spey” comes from the Scottish “glen” for valley and “spey” for spa or healthy spring. The present hamlet grew up around the intersection ...
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Forestburgh
(Category)
...  David handy and wife were the first known white settlers.  His occupation was shiolglemaker due to virgin hemlocks and unusual springs.  He died about 1814, a historical marker in Oakland Valley indicate ...
Created on 30 November -0001
5. County History
(Category)
... got rail service with the completion of the Monticello & Port Jervis Railroad in 1871, and the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad (later the Ontario & Western) in 1872, resorts began to spring up there, ...
Created on 30 November -0001
6. Cochecton
(Category)
... Army saw Tyler offspring in its service. Nathaniel was a drummer and was taken prisoner at the Battle of St. Johns. Bezaleel Tyler, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, commanded the Mamakating Scouts ...
Created on 30 November -0001
7. 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
8. Bethel
(Category)
... h year. It seemed for quite some time that we were in a steady eco­nomic decline. However, over the past several years we seem to have turned the corner. New businesses are springing up and new homes a ...
Created on 30 November -0001
9. Hats off to Spring ...
(Past Exhibits)
In celebration of spring, 2013, the Sullivan County Historical Society has on display in the downstairs foyer glass case a collection of ladies' hats. Each of these ladies' head-dressea represents different ...
Created on 27 December 2015
10. White Sulphur Springs Methodist Church Cemetery  ...
(Liberty)
REF: 1930 by GAB
Created on 03 June 2010
11. How Woodstock Happened...
(General History)
... $5,000, I'd say, 'Pay 'em $10,000.' So we paid the deposits, signed the contracts, and that was it: instant credibility." In the spring of 1969, John Sebastian's career was on hold. From 1965 to 1967,  ...
Created on 04 January 2016
12. Monticello
(Thompson)
... home for the winter but resumed the following spring. John returned to his work on their lands in early April 1804, while Samuel continued work­ing for the turnpike company. After John put the sawmill ...
Created on 26 December 2015
13. 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
14. Allan Wayne Dampman
(History Preserver)
...  surrender of the Japanese war machine, the Ludlow continued on with military operations in and around the Pacific until the ship was decommissioned during the spring of 1946. Upon returning to civilia ...
Created on 04 April 2012
15. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.
(Cochecton)
... contract for building the bridge. It was completed in 1819, but was so unsubstantial that it was never used and fell of its own weight.  It had only one pier. in the spring of 1820, Major Wheat moved ...
Created on 03 November 2011
16. Along the Neversink..
(Neversink)
Alvin Hall, big in every way except stature. And thus a neighborhood yarn. When the wild pigeons went to the Willowemoc swamps to nest in the spring, farmers along the Neversink made beds of buckwheat ...
Created on 07 October 2011
17. The Oil Pipeline
(General History)
... the harsh winter weather until its completion during the spring of 1881. By now, work on the pipeline also was completed along the lower section of Sullivan County to Orange County, setting the stage for ...
Created on 28 June 2011
18. Andrew Neiderman
(History Makers)
... of Donna Summer) as Rain. It will be a direct to DVD release most likely available this coming spring, 2007, under the production banner of Merv Griffin Entertainment. He has also completed the libretto ...
Created on 01 June 2006
19. Daniel Skinner
(History Makers)
... lding rafts on the river bank was winter work. When all these preparations were complete, the rafts would be floated down river during high water, generally at the time of the early spring freshet. At  ...
Created on 11 August 2005
20. Emma Cooke Chase
(History Makers)
... then Highway Supervisor in Monticello. The road crew was working in Rock Hill in early spring when Mrs. Chase drove up on her way to Fallsburg. Mr. Coddington strongly advised her not to take that road ...
Created on 11 August 2001
21. Delbert Van Etten
(History Preserver)
... Hector, had a farm in White Sulphur Springs and as a boy Del remembers riding into Liberty while his grandfather entertained him (or himself) with stories of the families who lived along the road. Thus ...
Created on 11 August 2000
22. Francis S. Currey
(History Makers)
... 18 years old his superiors felt that he was "too immature" to be an officer and denied him a commission.   After training with the 75th Infantry Division, Currey was sent to England in the sprin ...
Created on 01 June 2000
23. James Burbank
(History Preserver)
... invited interested persons to attend a meeting on April 12, 1949 to renew the Society. That spring Burbank was appointed Chairman of the committee to draft a proposed Constitution and a set of By-Laws ...
Created on 11 August 1997
24. Otto Hillig
(History Preserver)
... working on a farm near White Sulphur Springs supposedly found a photo magazine and decided to try his hand at photography. He went on to become the most famous photographer in Sullivan County and the owner ...
Created on 11 August 1996

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