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1. SULLIVAN COUNTY (NY): A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY IN IMAGES (1596296461): Written by County Historian John Conway; Created on 21 December 2015
2. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 Sullivan County Historical Society’s First Sunday Concert will feature Little Sparrow! For nearly ten years, the Americana band Little Sparrow (Aldo Troiani and ...; Created on 29 January 2020
3. New Year's Day (2015-01-01) ...: (Events Calendar/New Year's Day); New Year's Day Visit http://calendarlabs.com/holidays/us/new-years-day.php to know more about New Year's Day. Like us on Facebook: http://fb.com/calendarlabs to get updates. ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (2020-04-04): (Events Calendar/Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination); Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing outside his hotel room on the second floor balcony. He was 39 years old. His assassination sparked ...; Created on 27 December 2015
5. Jefferson Davis is captured (2020-05-10): (Events Calendar/Jefferson Davis is captured); Jefferson Davis is captured Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was captured when the Union Army caught up to him on May 10, 1865, in Irwinville, Georgia. He would spend 2 years in prison ...; Created on 27 December 2015
6. Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi (2020-06-21): (Events Calendar/Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi); ... The ringleader of the crime was convicted on June 21, 2005, exactly 41 years after the crime. The 1988 movie, "Mississippi Burning", was loosely based on the murders. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.co ...; Created on 27 December 2015
7. Rockland: (Category); ... chief of the Lenni-Lenapes. In a very short time, a new owner, Robert Livingston, appeared on the scene and in less than forty years he acquired title to almost half of the entire patent leaving Johannes ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Neversink: (Category); ... in existence for over 100 years; a delightful playground built by volunteers; a covered bridge built by volunteers; a library that has grown by leaps and bounds and a community newspaper that began in ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. Mamakating: (Category); ... were three forts built in Mamakating. Fort Westbrookville was built in 1750 on what is now the Sullivan and Orange county border and until several years ago it was a restaurant. In 1757 a fort was built ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Highland: (Category); ... a monument stands on the wooded hill above the Delaware as s tribute to those brave soldiers who lost their lives. Interestingly, it was not until 43 years after the battle that the remains of those slai ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Fremont: (Category); ... often related that within a period of ten years they had lived in three different towns though they hadn’t moved away from their home. Before 1842 they lived in the town of Liberty. When the town of ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Fallsburg: (Category); ... in the early 1800�s. Mr. Hasbrouck lived in the old stone house that is still standing today. The hamlet was a major business area for many years with a variety of shops and stores and had it own post ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. 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
14. Curious Bits: (Category); ... copies and on microfilm. The following articles are from these newspapers. One hundred years ago, newsy items that occurred throughout the Sullivan County were well-recorded in articles found withi ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. County History: (Category); ... “original people”) first arrived in this area over 11,000 years ago. While there is no indication exactly what the place was like at that time, oral tradition (the Lenape had no written language) holds ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. Cochecton: (Category); ... for the most part, they were settled tentatively around 1769 but differences among the three states continued for a number of years. The Skinner family, who migrated from Connecticut, was among the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
17. 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
18. Bethel: (Category); ... event in the history books. It seemed to define a generation. They made a movie about it and the Town of Bethel was "on the map" forever. Over the years there has been much controversy surrounding thi ...; Created on 30 November -0001
19. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing that long time board member, Bill Burns has passed away. He has served the Sullivan County Historical Society for over 40 years as a member, board member, ...; Created on 29 March 2020
20. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... Stay Out Skifflers. The Skifflers are a Hurleyville, New York based jug band that has been touring for more than twenty years, bringing their unique blend of blues, folk, old timey, Tin Pan Alley pop to ...; Created on 12 March 2020
21. John Conway Book Talk and Signing: (News); ... and Nellie Gipson and family. “In Further Retrospect” is a compilation of more than 60 of Conway’s “Retrospect” newspaper columns from over the years, augmented by 16 photographs. It is the third time ...; Created on 11 March 2020
22. Our Digitized Newspaper collection is now available to the public!: (Museum News); ... some from the Sullivan County Record All of these newspapers are searchable and indexed for ease of finding information and subjects that appear in them. We have the following years and ...; Created on 17 February 2018
23. Alan Dampman May 26, 1926 - October 14, 2016: (Society News); ... for over 21 years before he retired. Survivors include his sister, Margaret Edwards of North Carolina; one niece, Elizabeth Brett and her husband John of Port Chester, NY; and one nephew, Wayne Allen ...; Created on 16 October 2016
24. New Exhibit "Early Sullivan County" to Open June 12th: (Museum News); ... has volunteered at the Sullivan County Historical Society for many years creating exhibits in different areas of interest. The current work is a loving effort to put forward vignettes of times of long ...; Created on 22 May 2016
25. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... were the conduit that bridged the experiences from her youth to the historical crusades that made up her later years. “I grew up in an era that is now nearing its end, and my job as historian gives me ...; Created on 17 January 2016
26. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... County. Harold has lived in South Fallsburg for all of his ninety-two years. That in itself is certainly a historical oddity, maybe even a record. True, he was absent temporarily to attend college ...; Created on 17 January 2016
27. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); Reprinted from The Times Herald-Record Woodstock Commemorative Edition Text copyright 1994 The Times Herald-Record The last bedraggled fan sloshed out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more than 25 year ...; Created on 04 January 2016
28. Monticello: (Thompson); ... ilt the first iron foundry on Main St. and a gristmill and sawmill on the Cold Spring Road. All his businesses were conducted successfully for many years. Ephraim Lyon Burnham came to Monticello about ...; Created on 26 December 2015
29. Sullivan County Long Beards: (History Makers); ... sport and subsistence to outdoor enthusiasts. Over the years, the exploits of these sportsmen have been well chronicled, from the early writings of James Quinlan to the current essays of Sullivan County ...; Created on 18 October 2014
30. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... volunteer commitment to the Society’s mission can be easily found by the improvements made over the years within the Society’s operations. Acquired skills and knowledge that has shaped their early lives, ...; Created on 18 October 2014
31. Gladys Olmsted: (History Makers); ... Public Health Nurse in 1951, in an “office” with a dirt floor in the basement of the courthouse and retired 34 years later as the Director of the Sullivan County Public Health Nursing Service. She saw ...; Created on 25 November 2013
32. The Fallsburgh Tunnel: (Fallsburg); Trouble at the Fallsburgh Tunnel Sixty years after their construction, the tunnels along the route of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway began showing their age, the resulting deterioration ...; Created on 25 November 2012
33. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... common sense mind, followed by a resolve and patience in pursuing whatever goal he sets. The choice by the Sullivan County Historical Society of Allan as this year's History Preserver reflects not onl ...; Created on 04 April 2012
34. Grist Mill Burned Saturday: (Callicoon); ... the present owner 17 years ago of John Ross. Mr. Bollenback expects to rebuild.” ...; Created on 06 March 2012
35. Along The Neversink....: (Neversink); ... . Sam Benson kept the Tavern, and Jim Knight lived up the river where we went trout fishing. His home was open to all comers. Peg Lawrence also kept a tavern and in her declining years always claimed th ...; Created on 28 December 2011
36. The Stone Arch Bridge: (Cochecton); ... 80 years of service. For 16 years the Bridge stood as a solitary and deteriorating remembrance of other times. In 1970, after many years of work by the Sullivan county Park and Recreation Commissio ...; Created on 03 November 2011
37. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... raised from four to six feet and a new bridge was erected by Solon Chapin of Easton at a cost of $9,000.00. This bridge breasted the floods and ice gorges for over 40 years. In 1902, it was carried awa ...; Created on 03 November 2011
38. The Town of Tusten: (Tusten); ... For many years the Tusten community was considered the seat of the town. It became the most important business community in the town that shared its name. Tusten peaked during the mid 1800’s. It boasted ...; Created on 20 October 2011
39. Casino Burns: (Liberty); ... g was ablaze. "The building was owned by Mr. John Clark of New York who built it ten or twelve years ago. His son W H Clark has always been in charge. Mr. W H Clark says that the property had formerly b ...; Created on 07 October 2011
40. Along the Neversink.....: (Neversink); ... hotel, afterwards owned and managed for many years by Henry Dean. This afterwards became a very important boarding hotel, and was lately burned. "Adam Cross, grandfather of Guernsey and Eugene, was ...; Created on 07 October 2011
41. Along the Neversink...: (Neversink); ... Sam Barnes was a neighborhood tramp of 60 years ago - a cat-licking shoemaker and a fisherman who promptly spent for whiskey the money he received from his fishing and shoe repairing. He used to explain ...; Created on 07 October 2011
42. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... until his death, Fegruary 21, 1882, a period of 48 years in all. General Niven endowed money to build the new Mongaup Valley church. The church was built in 1850 and 1851 and dedicated August 19, 18 ...; Created on 29 September 2011
43. 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
44. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... on Route 17-K near Montgomery in Orange County. "After the first phase of rebuilding 17-B took place several years ago, the reddish stone monument was taken up and placed in the custody of the Sullivan C ...; Created on 22 September 2011
45. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II: (Neversink); ... years after the marriage of Henry Reynolds, it was estimated that his descendants numbered upwards of one thousand. When the town of Neversink was organized in 1798, Reynolds was elected its first supervisor; ...; Created on 01 September 2011
46. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... the highly anticipated event that is to usher out the end of an era. For fifty-six years, the one hundred and twenty-five foot chimney has towered high above the surrounding landscape; a well-known landmark ...; Created on 28 June 2011
47. Edward Van Put: (History Preserver); ... our lives. Edward Van Put remembers the influence that a commonplace event had on his life when he was twelve years old. His uncle took him fly fishing and Ed found the experience so fascinating that he ...; Created on 11 August 2009
48. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... but after a few years they became tired of the bustle and in part for reasons of health decided to return to the rural way of life they were accustomed to. In 1907, drawing on their farming background, ...; Created on 11 August 2008
49. Charlotte M. Osterhout: (History Preserver); ... to recall family relationships. Over the years Charlotte was able to trace her own lineage back 400 years. In her younger adult years she was busy with family and work. She married Richard ...; Created on 11 August 2008
50. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... system in Liberty, New York, where he still maintains his corporate offices. Over the years he developed innovative capital structures that made possible the financing of CVI’s remarkable growth without ...; Created on 11 August 2007
51. Maurice Gerry: (History Preserver); ... home every fall for 32 years and as his parents Bill and Naomi grew older, he started to spend longer periods of time in his beloved Ferndale. He purchased his first house in 1981. It ...; Created on 11 August 2007
52. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... of the 1969 Woodstock Festival also received worldwide distribution. For thirty years Paul served as the official photographer for the New York State Police and his photographs of accidents and fires were ...; Created on 11 August 2007
53. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... copies from a surviving copy of the original edition. These copies in turn were sold out in a few years to interested readers both locally and across the country. At present, arrangements are being made ...; Created on 11 August 2006
54. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... the next twenty-three years he taught at Fallsburg High School. He is remembered not only as an outstanding teacher, but as a department chairman, faculty president, county teachers’ association president, ...; Created on 01 June 2006
55. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... g of the era of timber rafting that lasted 150 years until the virgin trees within reach of the Delaware had been cut down and the hillsides had been denuded. At first the rafts began their voyage in t ...; Created on 11 August 2005
56. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... of the Roscoe O&W Railway Museum. In both these roles he has labored for over twenty years to preserve the memorabilia and memories of the New York Ontario and Western Railway. In this endeavor he has ...; Created on 11 August 2005
57. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... In 1948 Max bought two small farms in Bethel. He worked both the Maplewood farm and the Bethel farms until 1952 when he sold the Maplewood farm and moved the family to Bethel. Over the years he built up ...; Created on 01 June 2004
58. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... Society honors him for taking part in the 1964 Olympics and in 1966 at the Los Angeles Coliseum establishing a world record of 8230 points for the Decathlon-a record which stood for a number of years. ...; Created on 11 August 2003
59. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... two different years. Residents of Bethel were invited to bring family and town historic items and personal memories to the ambulance building to share them with their neighbors. These “Walks” were received ...; Created on 11 August 2003
60. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... , although the family received letters from him expressing his love and the firmness of his intentions. One day, more than three years after his departure, a joyous event took place: a letter arrived wi ...; Created on 11 August 2002
61. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... his own library. At Monticello High School, John found time to be on the wrestling, soccer and baseball teams and graduated in 1970. Initially, the years working in the family business ...; Created on 11 August 2002
62. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... years later. At that time a schoolteacher, in addition to a salary of $2.50 per week, was provided room and board at the homes of her students. It was expected that the local teacher would live with the ...; Created on 11 August 2001
63. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... been elected the Founding President – an office she held for six years. Now composed of about ten organizations, the Alliance brings together the various groups from Port Jervis to Hancock which study ...; Created on 11 August 2001
64. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... was brief, that training had a long-term effect on his life. After returning to civilian life he worked for almost fifty years as a draftsman with several local engineers such as Olney Borden and Dolph ...; Created on 11 August 2000
65. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); ... 18 years old his superiors felt that he was "too immature" to be an officer and denied him a commission. After training with the 75th Infantry Division, Currey was sent to England in the sprin ...; Created on 01 June 2000
66. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... learning about responsibility to the community. Walter’s grandfather Lewis Margolin, had broken ground for the new Monticello Hospital and his father Max served as its President for sixteen years. ...; Created on 11 August 1999
67. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... Marjorie Chase Durland, a local girl with deep family roots in Monticello and the Town of Thompson. After many house moves in their first few years together, Bill and Sam (Marge) raised their four children ...; Created on 11 August 1998
68. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... whom next year he will celebrate sixty years of a devoted marriage in the company of three children, Edward, George and Lauren, nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The Judge’s ...; Created on 01 June 1998

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