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1. 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
2. Highland
(Category)
... e boarding houses and small summer hotels built in the Town of Highland catered mostly to German and Irish guests. Today much of Highland is still undeveloped.  The main industry in the town is touri ...
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Forestburgh
(Category)
... y and store.  The railroad was commissioned to serve the area and a post office was necessary.  Resorts and summer camps soon emerged. Charles Gilman, nephew, served as Town supervisor from 1891 -93 a ...
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Fallsburg
(Category)
... many years.  A prosperous poultry industry also grew in the Town.                    The most impressive business to flourish due to the railroads was the summer tourist industry.  The railroad enabled ...
Created on 30 November -0001
5. Delaware
(Category)
... chwoods and vacationers from the New York metropolitan area to summer at local boarding houses and hotels. Although it too became a favorite spot for vacationers, Kenoza Lake (Pike Pond) had begun to ...
Created on 30 November -0001
6. County History
(Category)
... to tourism (the third “T”) as its principal industry. Beginning in the 1840s, entrepreneurs were building summer hotels to accommodate visitors who, having learned of the great recreational opportunities ...
Created on 30 November -0001
7. Cochecton
(Category)
... ty's Bed and Breakfast and is the home of the mid-summer "City Games," sponsored by the Fosterdale Motor Lodge. The resurgence of this area is evidenced by several active businesses, such as, a convenience ...
Created on 30 November -0001
8. William "Bill" Burns Memorial
(News)
... . Due to the current crisis affecting our country there will be no services at this time. A celebration memorializing Bill's life will be held during the summer and will be announced on this page in  ...
Created on 29 March 2020
9. The Golden Age of The Catskills
(Video)
This Content is reposted from and is Property of Spectrum News  During the 1940s and 1950s, the Catskills was one of the top tourist destinations in the world. In the summer months, it was home to more ...
Created on 06 July 2017
10. The Borscht Belt
(Now Showing)
Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the (now mostly defunct) summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties in upstate New York. Borscht, ...
Created on 17 June 2016
11. How Woodstock Happened...
(General History)
... ebastian's band, the Lovin' Spoonful, had cranked out hit after hit - "Do You Believe in Magic," "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice," "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind," "(What a Day For a) Daydream" an ...
Created on 04 January 2016
12. Monticello
(Thompson)
... h shop and Miles Curtis put up a house. Sometime that summer Curtis Lindsley commenced building a hotel, where later the county court would be held until a court­house was built. On March 27, 1809,  ...
Created on 26 December 2015
13. Hurleyville
(Fallsburg)
... During its heyday as a resort Hurleyville was home to many popular summer hotels, bungalow colonies and boarding houses, the biggest and best known was the rather grand Colombia Hotel located atop Colombia ...
Created on 26 December 2015
14. Genalogy September 2015
(News)
The summer has been quite busy at the Sullivan County Historical Society. Not only have we had many visitors from all over the country looking for their Sullivan County roots in our genealogy archives, ...
Created on 03 September 2015
15. Genealogy News
(Genealogy Department)
The archives and genealogy department has been quite busy with visitors looking for their roots this summer. If you have received error messages when emailing me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., that glitch ...
Created on 24 July 2015
16. Patricia and William Burns
(History Preserver)
... to the collections and significance of that institution.       Though Bill was raised in the Bayside section of Queens, he spent many summer vacations with his relatives in SullivanCounty, developing ...
Created on 18 October 2014
17. Woodstock
(Now Showing)
The words of Max Yasgur, on whose farm the Woodstock Festival took place during three steamy August days during the summer of 1969, delighted the hundreds of thousands of young people who had gathered ...
Created on 12 April 2013
18. Allan Wayne Dampman
(History Preserver)
...  on convoy missions, anti-submarine patrol, fire support and patrol duty until reassigned to the war effort in the Pacific theater in April 1945. Even though the war came to an end that summer with th ...
Created on 04 April 2012
19. The Stone Arch Bridge
(Cochecton)
...  to preserve the Bridge and its surroundings their efforts were rewarded with the purchase of over four acres of land on the downstream of the Bridge. By the summer of 1976, the Sullivan County Departmen ...
Created on 03 November 2011
20. Early History of Youngsville
(Callicoon)
...  and is in a fine state of preservation. At the present time, Youngsville is a thriving, peaceful village of industrious people whose main occupation is agriculture and dairy farming.  During the summe ...
Created on 03 November 2011
21. The Town of Tusten
(Tusten)
... and motels and large resorts of other areas attracted the summer visitors.    ...
Created on 20 October 2011
22. The Oil Pipeline
(General History)
... is fully needed to support the thirty-seven carloads of brick and untold amount of mortar incorporated into the chimney’s construction….     Throughout the summer and fall of 1880, gangs of ...
Created on 28 June 2011
23. The Kutsher Family
(History Makers)
... income they began taking in friends for the summer months. Even with the summer visitors, the farm continued in operation with horses, dairy cows and of course chickens and the family grew with the addition ...
Created on 11 August 2008
24. Maurice Gerry
(History Preserver)
... was the Ryan House on Ferndale-Loomis Road. It had been empty for 42 years. It took four years of trips back and forth across the country, but in the summer of 1985, he moved back for good and took ...
Created on 11 August 2007
25. 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
26. Wilmer Sipple
(History Preserver)
... In fact, special trout cars were built to make this distribution of young trout easier. Next the railroad increased its business by printing an annual book entitled Summer Homes which listed all the hotels ...
Created on 11 August 2005
27. Max Yasgur
(History Makers)
... in Max’s initial decision. The summer of 1969 was very wet, making it difficult to get crops in and causing financial pressures. Any additional income, even a small rental for a weekend concert, was welcome. ...
Created on 01 June 2004
28. Jennie Grossinger
(History Makers)
... he effect that despite the poor land the family could survive by taking in boarders from the City. Soon they were busy contacting old friends in the City inviting them to come and enjoy the summer bea ...
Created on 11 August 2002
29. Walter A. Rhulen
(History Makers)
... which found new markets by targeting groups with special insurance needs such as summer camps, race horses, karate classes, etc. which the larger companies avoided. Expansion continued steadily and today ...
Created on 11 August 1999
30. William Galbraith Smith
(History Preserver)
... The property had been Marge’s grandparents’ summer getaway in the 1920’s and served as a summer camp for the family over the next sixty years. This wonderful personal change was to be the backdrop for ...
Created on 11 August 1998
31. Judge Robert C. Williams
(History Makers)
... grew potatoes and vegetables. During the summer the family of four (Bob had an older brother) moved into a chicken coop, about 15’ x 15’ and rented the house to guests escaping New York City’s summer heat. ...
Created on 11 August 1996

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