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British troops enter Washington, D.C. On August 24, 1814, British troops under General Robert Ross enter Washington, D.C. to destroy many government buildings, including the White House, the Treasury building ...

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, sparking the Montgomery Bus ...

... near Pepaction. Although Tunis was refused the hand of a white girl; he continued to be a friend of the white man. On one occasion he crept into an Indian camp and freed John Osterhout and Silas Bowker, ...

... white and yellow pine and hemlock (used in the tanning industry) by out-of-county concerns. A new value for land in Lumberland was established in 1868 when the Ulster firm of Mills & Cash opened large ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... Little is known about the earliest white settlers of the town. Their names and the exact dates they located there have not been documented, but it is thought they arrived before the Revolutionary War. ...

... 200 hotels such as the Wawonda and Ye Lancashire Inn in Liberty, the White Sulphur Springs House, the Columbia Farms and Brophy’s Mountain House in Hurleyville, and the Mansion House and the Kenmore in ...

... none of whom were willing to construct roads. According to one old account, there was but a solid wall of forest trees and laurel and rhododendron shrubs from what is now White Sulphur Springs to the Delaware ...

... 60's in Kauneonga Lake, an entire new Community of second homes appeared. This community became known as the White Lake Homes. The residents from this community have become a very important part of the s ...

Published on Aug 21, 2015 Narrated by Cy Plotkin whose parents bought the original Woodlawn Villa in 1920. A brief history of hotels around White Lake and Kauneonga Lake, Sullivan County, New York. ...

REF: 1930 by GAB

LOCATION: Route 17B FAMILY: Information on burials at this cemetery can be found at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: Old Bethel Burial Grounds REF: 1929 ...

... archivist, officer, and a person to go to when a historical question comes upon. He will be greatly missed. The following is taken from a Smallwood-White Lake Fire Company posting on Facebook. ...

... to come off," Wadleigh said. "That feeling that someone could pull the plug out on us didn't go away until the music started." Elliot Tiber read about Woodstock getting tossed out of Wallkill. Tiber' ...

The original white settlers came into the area, which was later named Jeffersonville, in the 1830's. The names DeWitt, Quick, Schermerhorn, Ward, Frederick Scheidell who established a grist mill in 1841 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

The original white settlers came into the area, which was later named Jeffersonville, in the 1830's. The names DeWitt, Quick, Schermerhorn, Ward, Frederick Scheidell who established a grist mill in 1841 ...

... lic Church now stands. In 1849, John C. Tillotson, grandfather of the late Howard Tillotson, gave to the Trustees of the Associated Church at White Lake that piece of land now occupied by the Presbyste ...

... tle west of the Black Lake Road junction on the north side of Route 17-B, near White Lake. Mr. Robert Schlicting, New York State Department of Highways engineer on the reconstruction of 17-B, has placed ...

... with Oak trees, other hardwoods, pines and in New Jersey, white cedar. A profitable business developed by constructing rafts and floating these logs down the Delaware to Philadelphia and other emerging ...

... The Anniversary celebration included a boat regatta on White Lake, dancing, a parade, and fireworks and was considered a great success. She also kept up with changing times and new technology and contributed ...

... 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 ...

... Hector, had a farm in White Sulphur Springs and as a boy Del remembers riding into Liberty while his grandfather entertained him (or himself) with stories of the families who lived along the road. Thus ...

... working on a farm near White Sulphur Springs supposedly found a photo magazine and decided to try his hand at photography. He went on to become the most famous photographer in Sullivan County and the owner ...

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