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1. Independence Day (2023-07-04): (Events Calendar/Independence Day); Independence Day Museum will be closed Today 3 ...; Created on 01 July 2017
2. Christmas Eve (2023-12-24): (Events Calendar/Christmas Eve); Christmas Eve Museum will be closed Today ...; Created on 21 December 2015
3. Neversink: (Category); ... 1947 and is still being published today. When we began this century – there were those five communities where the two reservoirs are and Grahamsville was located in the middle. School age students ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Mamakating: (Category); ... I eagerly accepted the offer and today we have an archive room, a great meeting room with many pictures and histories of all the areas of Mamakating and many artifacts of our area. We have165 members and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Lumberland: (Category); ... some 300,000 acres, as compared to about 32,270 acres today and took in what are now the Townships of Bethel, Callicoon, Cochecton, Delaware, Fremont, Highland, Liberty and Tusten. The population of ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Liberty: (Category); ... of Lumberland, and was itself at this time, so large that it included the present towns of Callicoon and Freemont. The Town today covers 85 square miles. When the first white settlers came to this area, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Highland: (Category); ... of that war was fought on the headland above Minisink Ford in the town. It was here that the notorious Tory, Joseph Brant, led a bloody massacre on two companies of colonials from the Goshen area. toda ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Fremont: (Category); ... represented in the residents of Fremont today. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Forestburgh: (Category); ... lth. In 1895, the first Town Hall was built and the present one in 1980 is on King Road off Route 42 South. In 1963, the first fire house came into being, continuing today with volunteers. The Forest ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Fallsburg: (Category); ... in the Neversink River. One month later, on April 4, the first town meeting was held in the schoolhouse where the hamlet of Fallsburg is today. The settlement was then known as Neversink Falls. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Delaware: (Category); ... cluding today's Towns of Bethel, Highland, Cochecton, Liberty, and Tusten - was formed in 1798. In 1869, the Town of Delaware was taken from the Town of Tusten. The first supervisors of the Town were ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. County History: (Category); ... that the tribe ultimately controlled a land mass that encompassed from what is today upstate New York to the state of Delaware. They called this land Lenapehoking, or “land of the Lenape.” The tribe ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Cochecton: (Category); ... Road. In the early days, Cochecton found itself at the western end of the Cochecton-Newburgh Turnpike, a main over-land route between Cochecton and Newburgh. Today portions of this turnpike, which lie ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. Callicoon: (Category); ... today are called Rt. 17K in Orange County Rt. 17B in Sullivan County. The first permanent white settlers to come to the Town of Callicoon – on May 19, 1814- were members of the William Wood family. They ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. 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
16. The Golden Age of The Catskills: (Video); ... to put back into these places so slowly, they declined,” Frishman said. Today, some of the old bungalows are owned by orthodox groups, who occupy the buildings during the summer months. “There are st ...; Created on 06 July 2017
17. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... years. Today, the administration building is named for him. In recent years, at an age when most men would happily retire to their frontporch rockers, Harold served on the board of the SCCC Foundation ...; Created on 17 January 2016
18. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... apartment on 83rd Street in a high-rise," Lang recalls. "They were kind of preppy. Today, I guess they'd be yuppies. They were wearing suits. Artie did most of the talking, because I think they seemed pu ...; Created on 04 January 2016
19. Monticello: (Thompson); ... own from that nucleus into the Monticello of today. The village was incorporated on April 20, 1830. We noted that Monticello was fortunate that the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike ran through its center. Howe ...; Created on 26 December 2015
20. Sullivan County Long Beards: (History Makers); ... acknowledge and thank our veterans, who through their sacrifice allow us to exercise the freedoms that we all enjoy today. ...; Created on 18 October 2014
21. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... he found employment with Cities Service Company, the oil and gas concern that today operates under the name of Citco, as purchasing agent. In 1953, Pat and Bill were married and because of Bill’s ...; Created on 18 October 2014
22. FABULOUS FOOTWEAR: (Past Exhibits); The Sullivan County Historical Society has a new exhibit displaying footwear from great-grandma’s era (pre 1900) to the 1960’s. Many styles of today resemble shoes of the past. ...; Created on 30 July 2014
23. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... f History Maker and History Preserver awards, Allan has been an important voice in making the decision as to who should receive the Society's recognition. Today, October 16th 2011, the Sullivan County H ...; Created on 04 April 2012
24. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground: (Neversink); ... e onto a shaded dirt road. Then driving one-half mile in a southeasterly direction on this dirt road, we come to a four corners. On our left is the pound schoolhouse, or better known today as District ...; Created on 27 October 2011
25. The Hamlet of Swamp Mills: (Tusten); If you look on the 1875 map of Tusten you would see the hamlet with the largest print was Swamp Mills. Most people are not familiar with the name today and some would not recognize the later name of Neweiden. ...; Created on 20 October 2011
26. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... . There is no doubt that its peak was reached during the operation of the tannery and mills. "Remaining today are 2 churches and a combined general store and post office, two garages and a two-room s ...; Created on 29 September 2011
27. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... a period still considered long ago by most historical standards, it is nevertheless very much related to current issues publicly debated throughout Sullivan County. Today, vestiges of the original pipeline ...; Created on 28 June 2011
28. About the Society: (Historical Society); ... of today. ...; Created on 05 April 2010
29. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... of Louis’s son, Milton, who was born in 1916. Today, looking back over the achievements of his parents and grand-parents, Mark Kutsher sums up their approach in a few words, “Hospitality ...; Created on 11 August 2008
30. Charlotte M. Osterhout: (History Preserver); ... to family discussions and noting births, weddings and deaths. In 1954 the family sold the farm’s cattle, although her son Glenn raised 18 beef cattle in high school and today teaches agriculture in Madison ...; Created on 11 August 2008
31. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... to purchase it and have it placed on the National Registry. The entire hill was a labor of love and today, it stands as a testament to the memory of where he grew up and a place he truly ...; Created on 11 August 2007
32. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... on county history was published. As is still true today, some of our most popular historians come from a background in journalism rather than from time spent in a university library. This was true of Quinlan ...; Created on 11 August 2006
33. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... ments which lumbering had supported. In 1907 only four rafts came down. In 1922 the last raft came down the river from Hancock to Callicoon, but never left the upper river. Though today the Valley is ...; Created on 11 August 2005
34. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... shown great perseverance in the face of many disappointments, but as a result of his efforts and of those who shared his dream, Roscoe today can boast a museum complex composed of a Train Order Signal, ...; Created on 11 August 2005
35. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... e burden he had been carrying for years, Jennie at age fourteen insisted on dropping out of school to take a job to help with the family finances. She had become an adult at an early age. Today when we re ...; Created on 11 August 2002
36. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... and his poetry, dealing with places like Kiamesha Lake and White Lake, celebrated the rural beauty which was still unspoiled in that day. Yet today few people have heard of him, even as many English teachers ...; Created on 11 August 2002
37. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... surrounding her students and teachers were, at times, revolutionary in the early 1900’s. Many of her ideas are commonplace today and might be judged as pale by today’s standards. But make no mistake, Emma ...; Created on 11 August 2001
38. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... today by our History Preserver honoree, Mary Curtis and her two brothers, Edward and Robert, the eighth generation of that union. Hannah had a no-nonsense introduction to life on the frontier. A family ...; Created on 11 August 2001
39. 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
40. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... was sold and the fort was built. It was in operation from 1957 to 1970, but never prospered financially. Fortunately, the county stepped in and purchased the fort which remains today an important county ...; Created on 11 August 1997

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