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1. Thompson
(Category)
... The Village of Monticello was incorporated in 1830. The first town meeting of Thompson was held at the house of Abraham Warring, who kept a tavern in Thompsonville.  ...
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Rockland
(Category)
... center of Livingston Manor. The Village was named after Dr. Edward Livingston who lived in his manor house on upper Main Street where the present firehouse is located. With the influx of new settlers there ...
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Mamakating
(Category)
... north of the village of Wurtsboro and it was called Fort Devans. A building was later added to make it larger and it is now the home of the Barone family, the owners and operators of the Wurtsboro airport. ...
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Liberty
(Category)
... then known as the Blue Mountain Country, they settled to the north west of the present Village of Liberty near to Revonah Lake, formerly known as the Broadhead Pond. Our early settlers came from Connecticut ...
Created on 30 November -0001
5. Fallsburg
(Category)
... Woodbourne by Mr. Austin Strong. Mr. Strong went into partnership with Medad T. Morss who later became its sole proprietor. The tannery would be the center of life in the village for 35 years until it ...
Created on 30 November -0001
6. Delaware
(Category)
... renamed the smaller upstream village of Callicoon with the new name of Callicoon Center. The coming of the railroad had a huge impact on the area, bringing German immigrant farmers to populate the Be ...
Created on 30 November -0001
7. County History
(Category)
... was born.    Brothers Samuel F. and John P. Jones founded the village of Monticello in 1804 and Samuel was instrumental in the construction of the Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike, the first improved road ...
Created on 30 November -0001
8. Cochecton
(Category)
... no cities or villages that lie within its boundaries. We, its residents, at the beginning of the Twenty-first Century find our community tranquil, scenic and inviting.  ...
Created on 30 November -0001
9. Callicoon
(Category)
... years, the only residents. Ward was the first to build a wood farm house in the locality.  Three years after the Schermerhorns, Frederick Scheidell located in what was to become a village. He established ...
Created on 30 November -0001
10. The Village of Narrowsburg ...
(Tusten)
The village of Narrowsburg is located within the Town of Tusten. Benjamin Homan, a companion of the noted Indian fighter Tom Quick, settled near the big eddy around 1763. Most of the places along the Delaware ...
Created on 20 October 2011
11. The Great Monticello Fire - Rep-Watchman Aug 13th 1909
(Thompson)
...  flames before the fire bell had made the necessary strokes locating the fire section. With surprising rapidity the flames spread and in an hour the entire village seemed to be doomed, and but for th ...
Created on 16 February 2018
12. How Woodstock Happened...
(General History)
... eference from the musical "Hair". He had an ornate poster designed, featuring the water-bearer. By early April, the promoters were carefully cultivating the Woodstock image in the underground press, in publi ...
Created on 04 January 2016
13. Monticello
(Thompson)
The Village of Monticello On March 20, 1801, an act was passed authorizing the building of a new turnpike road from the Hud­son River to the Delaware through what was then Ulster and Orange Counties. ...
Created on 26 December 2015
14. Jeffersonville
(Callicoon)
...  Abraham Schneider who built a saw mill in 1842 and Victor Hofer were early inhabitants.  The Winkelreid Society, a group of Swiss settlers, gave its name to the original village in the early 1840's.  Almo ...
Created on 26 December 2015
15. Hurleyville
(Fallsburg)
... the Villages of Liberty and Monticello, New York. The zip code for Hurleyville is 12747. Hurleyville is bordered by the Town of Thompson, the Town of Liberty, the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake and the hamlet ...
Created on 26 December 2015
16. Fifteen Thousand Dollar Boarding House Sold
(Mamakating)
March 7, 1912, Livingston Manor Times   “J P Bennett, proprietor of the well known Shawangunk Mountain House at Highview, overlooking the village of Bloomingburgh, has sold the property for $15,000 ...
Created on 06 March 2012
17. Grist Mill Burned Saturday
(Callicoon)
... work by frozen hydrants. Very little wind was blowing at the time and this probably saved the village from a much more serious conflagration.   “The mill was erected about 1858 and was purchased by ...
Created on 06 March 2012
18. Early History of Youngsville
(Callicoon)
According to historians of Sullivan County, the present village of Youngsville, situated in the Township of Callicoon, was formally settled by Samuel M. Young, a member of the respectable Liberty family ...
Created on 03 November 2011
19. History of Jeffersonville
(Callicoon)
...  Abraham Schneider who built a saw mill in 1842 and Victor Hofer were early inhabitants.  The Winkelreid Society, a group of Swiss settlers, gave its name to the original village in the early 1840's.  Almo ...
Created on 03 November 2011
20. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground
(Neversink)
...  derives its name, lies the little village of Neversink. The first settlers pronounced this word "Narwasing." In the session laws of 1798, it is spelled "Nevisink." In the settlement deed, it is given ...
Created on 27 October 2011
21. The Town of Tusten
(Tusten)
... The Erie Railroad erected a station about a mile above the village where its tracks crossed the Delaware from Pennsylvania to New York. This station was first called Delaware Bridge then Tusten Station. ...
Created on 20 October 2011
22. Along the Neversink...
(Neversink)
... by saying that he chose to be the administrator of his own estate. The village boys used to tease Sam when he was intoxicated. One day he secured an old gun and fired a shot among them, killing one of ...
Created on 07 October 2011
23. Erect Historic Marker on Site of first House in Monticello
(Thompson)
SCHS Observer; November 9, 1964 "A blue-and-gold historical marker has been erected on the front lawn of the Intercounty Trust Company in the village of Monticello to mark the site of the first buildin ...
Created on 22 September 2011
24. Mystery of Missing Marker
(Thompson)
... rected in front of the Intercounty Trust Company in Monticello is still being made. It will mark the site of the Jones house, first buildeing in the village. The village will bear the expense."  ...
Created on 22 September 2011
25. Old Mansion House
(Bethel)
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 ...
Created on 15 September 2011
26. The Oil Pipeline
(General History)
... River, crossing the tributaries of Basket Creek, Hankins Creek and Callicoon Creek. The pipeline then reentered the valley of the Delaware River below the village of Old Cochecton, where the pumping station ...
Created on 28 June 2011
27. 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
28. Maurice Gerry
(History Preserver)
... and Art Center. He served as Vice-President of the Greater Liberty Chamber of Commerce and has worked on various beautification projects in the village of Liberty as well as having an active role in local ...
Created on 11 August 2007
29. Jennie Grossinger
(History Makers)
... d in Galatia. Like many young men of his time, he began thinking about America, for in every village one heard stories of men who had gone to America and if all went well, eventually sent money home to bri ...
Created on 11 August 2002
30. Emma Cooke Chase
(History Makers)
... would be on her way. At the end of the day as the crew drove up the village hill in Monticello, down Pleasant Street came Mrs. Chase, honking her horn and waving. Dangers on the road were certainly not ...
Created on 11 August 2001
31. Delbert Van Etten
(History Preserver)
... Del’s reputation as a valuable source of knowledge about his town grew and he was appointed Village Historian in 1972 and Town Historian in 1976. His appointment as Town Historian brought him into contact ...
Created on 11 August 2000
32. William Galbraith Smith
(History Preserver)
... for the Village of Monticello and held that post until he moved outside the Village in 1992. In 1970 he became one of the founders of the Hudson Valley Historical Association and served as president from ...
Created on 11 August 1998
33. Otto Hillig
(History Preserver)
... and Village Historian of Liberty.     Otto Hillig was born in Steinbruechen, Germany in 1874 and when sixteen years of age came to the United States as a poor German immigrant. He first worked as a street ...
Created on 11 August 1996

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