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1. Rockland: (Category); ... mine still remains a mystery to this day. Tunis acted as a guide for the Marquis de Lafayette on a hunting trip into the Beaverkill valley. Lafayette presented him with a gun for his services. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
2. Neversink: (Category); ... went the mile or two to their nearest one or two room school. There were 20 of these small schools in the Tri-Valley School District. Those people going on to high school had to be bussed to either Ellenville ...; Created on 30 November -0001
3. Lumberland: (Category); ... Lumberland, circa 1800 was about 733, mostly in the Delaware River Valley and engaged in lumbering, hence the Town’s name. Much of the land of the Town was plundered for its rich forests of oak, chestnut, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Fremont: (Category); ... LaValley, Thomas S. Ward, William C. Ward, Joseph F. Yendes, Burrow Phillips, G. L. M. Hardenbergh, James Borwn, John Beck, Aaron VanBenschoten and a family of Cannons. Not many of these families are ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. 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
6. Fallsburg: (Category); ... period of time. The Neversink River runs from north to south through the Town of Fallsburg and played an important part in its early development. In the late 1780�s the valley above ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Delaware: (Category); ... to be known as Callicoon, there were few settlers in the area, none within a mile of his new home. Many years before, hunters from the Hudson Valley had ventured into the valley of the Callicoon Creek ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. County History: (Category); ... They held great council fires in the Mamakating valley and annual corn harvest festivals along the Delaware River at what is today Cochecton. With the arrival of the Europeans—Swedish, Dutch and then ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Bethel: (Category); ... of these hamlets. In 1910, the old covered bridge, which had been built in 1830, was replaced with an iron bridge. This bridge is located in Mongaup Valley and you might wonder why this is ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson ...: (Bethel); ... 7 there were only five residents living in Mongaup Mill. In 1847 it was renamed Mongaup Valley and at that time, boasted four dwellings; one the old "Linden House," built by John C. Tillotson in 1816. ...; Created on 29 September 2011
11. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); ... Smallwood-Mongaup Valley Fire Department It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of William "Bill" Burns. 💔 The "Big Boss" as he was kno ...; Created on 29 March 2020
12. High School Yearbook Request: (Announcements); ... Allan Wolkoff, historian for the Town of Thompson, donated his collection of Monticello high School yearbooks and the Callicoon Library donated their duplicate copies of the Delaware Valley High School ...; Created on 21 February 2017
13. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... 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 ...; Created on 17 January 2016
14. Monticello: (Thompson); ... Two brothers, Samuel F. Jones and John Patterson Jones, built Monticello. The turnpike company entrusted Samuel F. Jones to explore the vast forests west of the Mamakating valley to find the best route ...; Created on 26 December 2015
15. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... the WhiteLake area in conjunction with Sullivan County Renaissance program. Both Bill and Pat have also volunteered at FortDelawareMuseum, the Mongaup Valley Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary and on ...; Created on 18 October 2014
16. John B. (Jack) Niflot: (History Preserver); ... 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 ...; Created on 25 November 2013
17. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... nk committee as chairperson. Due to his work, along with that of Peter Osborne, from the Minisink Valley Historical Society and other committee members, the ceremonial program has been expanded to include othe ...; Created on 04 April 2012
18. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... of the central portion of Sullivan County. The route served the major means of transportation between the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike and the Callicoon Valley, it was important to the development of the ...; Created on 03 November 2011
19. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... the Delaware Valley from Deposit to Port Jervis. Another area industry was the quarrying of blue stone. Stone harvested in the region was transported from here across the river to the Erie Railroad by ...; Created on 20 October 2011
20. Civilian Conservation Corps: (Tusten); October 6, 1933; Delaware Valley News "It looks very much as it Narrowsburgh would have a Civilian Conservation Corps camp located at the Ten Mile River Boy Scout Foundation. Forest rangers have visite ...; Created on 07 October 2011
21. The Methodist Cemetery; Livingston Manor: (Rockland); ... . Christian Fairchild of Monticello, a member of the Doll family, early settlers of the Beaverkill valley, has made it possible by a very large liberal contribution to start the work others are helping ...; Created on 07 October 2011
22. Searching For Gillette: (Neversink); ... arly Settlements of the Town of Neversink". The publications "Old Neversink and Surroundings" by Agnes Kortright and "Time and the Valley" published by the Time and the Valleys museum also provided im ...; Created on 07 October 2011
23. Fulton Settlement: (Bethel); ... h his father and brothers, upon the lands now belonging to the family, about 45 years ago, when the hills and valleys of Sullivan were almost an unbroken wilderness. The neighborhood received at that tim ...; Created on 23 September 2011
24. Searching For Gillette: (Research Department); ... arly Settlements of the Town of Neversink". The publications "Old Neversink and Surroundings" by Agnes Kortright and "Time and the Valley" published by the Time and the Valleys museum also provided im ...; Created on 20 August 2011
25. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); The morning of February 17th, 1936, has dawned along the Delaware Valley with relatively mild temperatures as several hundred people make their way along State Route Three-A below Cochecton to witness ...; Created on 28 June 2011
26. D&H Canal: (General History); ... anthracite coal along river valleys from Honesdale in northeastern Pennsylvania to Eddyville on the Rondout Creek near the villages of Kingston and Rondout. From here, it was shipped on barges down the ...; Created on 04 June 2010
27. Simenitsky Family Cemetery: (Thompson); FAMILY: Simenitsky LOCATION: Mongaup Valley REF: 2002 by CMO ...; Created on 03 June 2010
28. Kiersted & Swan Cemetery: (Bethel); Mongaup Valley REF: 1930 by GAB ...; Created on 03 June 2010
29. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... Valley system in west Los Angeles. On January 4, 1996 CVI merged with Time Warner, the nation’s second largest cable operator, but Alan continued as one of the nation’s entrepreneurial ...; Created on 11 August 2007
30. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... Diane Wilson of Fallsburg. They have two children: Melissa, a teacher in the Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California and Erik, a co-captain of a Lear jet who flies for a charter company out of ...; Created on 01 June 2006
31. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2005 Daniel Skinner Lord High Admiral of the Delaware When the pioneers first entered the lower Delaware valley, they found a land covered ...; Created on 11 August 2005
32. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... Town of Bethel. She was born in 1923 in Mongaup Valley. Her father was a carpenter and there were scores of friends and relatives to pass on the stories, handed down from generation to generation, to an ...; Created on 11 August 2003
33. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... inherited Hannah’s spunk. Indeed, as Mary has reflected on the two and a half centuries her family has been in the Valley, the idea has formed of writing a book about the remarkable women who preceded ...; Created on 11 August 2001
34. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... Society and is now permanently preserved on micro-fiche. The Liberty Historian was honored in the 1980’s when he was elected President of the Hudson Valley Historians Association which ...; Created on 11 August 2000
35. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... the next forty years, spending most of that time as a switchman. Bill was instrumental in bringing the Communication Workers of America Union into the Hudson Valley to represent the telephone workers. ...; Created on 11 August 1998
36. Marjorie Durland Smith: (History Preserver); ... county and she became President of the Hudson Valley Historians Association and President of the Municipal Historians Association of New York State. Within the local Society Marjorie has been President ...; Created on 11 August 1994

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