- 1. SULLIVAN COUNTY (NY): A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY IN IMAGES (1596296461)
- Written by County Historian John Conway
- Created on 21 December 2015
- 2. 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
- 3. Fremont
- (Category)
- ... before there was any extensive settlement in the town. There existed a trading post at Equinunk as early as 1750 and rafts of timber starting as far up stream as Rockland came past its shores before ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 4. 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
- 5. County History
- (Category)
- Copyrighted excerpt from Sullivan County: A Bicentennial History in Images by John Conway (The History Press 2009). TIMBER, TANNING AND TOURISM When Sullivan County was officially formed ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 6. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.
- (Cochecton)
- ... by the Major across the Neversink river at Bridgeville on the line of the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike in the year 1807. It was known as the arch plan. The arches consisted of massive white pine timbers. ...
- Created on 03 November 2011
- 7. The Town of Tusten
- (Tusten)
- ... a sawmill, a gristmill, a brickyard, several stores, a church, a school and a post office. However, with the end of the timber and stone industries, the community steadily declined until it was essentially ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 8. Daniel Skinner
- (History Makers)
- ... settlements on the lower river. Not only were the timbers used to construct buildings, but they provided raw materials for a thriving shipbuilding industry. In time, however, the easily accessible stands ...
- Created on 11 August 2005
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