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... Dodge was its first Supervisor. In the early days the Roscoe-Rockland locality was known as lower Westfield, as distinguished from upper Westfield, now known as Livingston Manor. It was settled by Mr. ...

... Wawarsing by way of the Chestnut Creek through Grahamsville as well as traveling north by way of Denniston�s Ford. By 1800, the upper flats along the river were pretty well settled. During ...

... Jersey, to settle at the confluence of Callicoon Creek and the Delaware River. Acting as Griswold's land agent, he built a house near what is now Upper Delaware Campgrounds. When Ross came to what cam ...

... side of the county along the Delaware River began to develop first, with the completion of the Erie Railroad in 1850. The railroad embarked on an aggressive promotional campaign touting the upper Delaware ...

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... into the upper Beaverkill Valley wilderness. Their survival depended on subsistence farming, lumber rafted down the river to urban markets along the Delaware River and hauling hemlock bark to the large ...

... and preserving the history and heritage of the Upper Delaware Valley is best exemplified by his co-founding of the Basket Historical Society in 1980, establishing its museum in Long Eddy and publishing/editing ...

... area, tanneries, lumber and agricultural industry. A saw mill was operated just upstream of the Bridge in the late 1800's. In 1882 one of the few Hex murders on record in the Upper Delaware Valley wa ...

September 15, 1911 Liberty Register "There is much discussion of a plan to rehabiliate the Old Mansion House at Monticello, and again make it the center of life in that village. "The upper floo ...

AKA: Upper Westfield M.E. Society, Purvis M.E. Ch. Cemetery, Smith hill Cemetery REF: 1930 by GAB ...

AKA: Reformed Church of upper Neversink @ Claryville REF: None ...

... the imagination to create a new industry for settlers in the Upper Valley. He accomplished this by building a raft to float timbers down from the Upper Delaware to the growing cities on the lower river ...

... and to settle in new land along the Upper Delaware River. Included in the company were John Calkin and Moses Thomas who in 1754 left the settled world of Connecticut to face the perils of life on the frontier. ...

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