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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); ... at the stations new Live Music series (wjjfradio.com). The Sullivan County Museum is located at 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, New York. The event is free. Donations will be gratefully accepted. ...; Created on 29 January 2020
3. Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight (2020-05-21): (Events Calendar/Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight); Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight Lindbergh departed from Roosevelt Field in New York on May 20, 1927 in his plane, "Spirit of St. Louis", arriving in Paris afte ...; Created on 27 December 2015
4. New York, the eleventh state (2020-07-26) ...: (Events Calendar/New York, the eleventh state); New York, the eleventh state July 26, 1788 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Albany, New York ...; Created on 27 December 2015
5. William McKinley shot (2020-09-06): (Events Calendar/William McKinley shot); William McKinley shot President McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 in Buffalo New York while attending the Pan-American Exposition, and died 8 days later on September 14. Upon McKinley's death, Vic ...; Created on 27 December 2015
6. British occupy New York City (2020-09-15) ...: (Events Calendar/British occupy New York City); British occupy New York City September 15, 1776 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com New York City, New York ...; Created on 27 December 2015
7. British troops leave New York (2020-11-25) ...: (Events Calendar/British troops leave New York); British troops leave New York November 25, 1783 http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com New York City, New York ...; Created on 27 December 2015
8. Victory at Yorktown (2020-10-19) ...: (Events Calendar/Victory at Yorktown); Victory at Yorktown October 19, 1781 - The British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders his 8,000 troops in Yorktown, Virginia, marking an end to the American Revolution. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com ...; Created on 27 December 2015
9. Rockland: (Category); ... Trail to the Big Beaverkill Flats. Later on they continued to Lower Westfield and then Westfield Flats now known as Roscoe, which was named after Roscoe Conklin, New York State Senator. Stewart ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Neversink: (Category); ... and Lackawack. We closed out the century in Neversink with two reservoirs feeding New York City water; a school district that allows our young people to be taught nearby; a country fair that has been ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Mamakating: (Category); ... was known as the D and H Canal because it traveled between the Delaware and the Hudson Rivers. It carried coal from Pennsylvania to the people in New York City. The first canal boats loaded with coal arrived ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. Lumberland: (Category); ... blue-stone quarries near Pond Eddy, followed in 1870 by the local firm of Decker, Kilgore & Company. Stone from these quarries left the Town via the D & H Canal on the New York side of the river and the ...; Created on 30 November -0001
13. Highland: (Category); ... & H Canal, which ran along the southern border of Highland. In 1856, a bridge was completed at Barryville, connecting it to Shohola, PA. This provided Barryville easy access to the New York and Erie Railro ...; Created on 30 November -0001
14. Fallsburg: (Category); ... to the evolution in the town after the trains began running through its territory. This is part one of this story, the early settlement of the town. On March 9, 1826, the New York State ...; Created on 30 November -0001
15. Delaware: (Category); ... in London about 1750. The buyer was a New York distiller name Joseph Griswold, who had traveled to England in search of a second wife. In 1755 or 1756, Griswold hired Joseph Ross of Bound Brook, New ...; Created on 30 November -0001
16. County History: (Category); ... that the tribe ultimately controlled a land mass that encompassed from what is today upstate New York to the state of Delaware. They called this land Lenapehoking, or “land of the Lenape.” The tribe ...; Created on 30 November -0001
17. Cochecton: (Category); ... fish, fur and game. Its proximity to the Delaware River, which led to Philadelphia, made it a natural for a permanent settlement. While land disputes occurred among New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, ...; Created on 30 November -0001
18. Cemeteries: (Category); ... they remain on our web site. Joan Sholl Francis has listed many cemeteries in our area, some are in New York and some are in Pennsylvania. Contact Joan at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~now1/eldred.html ...; Created on 30 November -0001
19. 1938 Hurricane: (Category); News from the 1938 Hurricane As the tropical storm named Ilene made landform east of New York City, the local media made many comparisons with this recent storm to the hurricane that struck the southern ...; Created on 30 November -0001
20. White Lake, Sullivan County, New York Hotel History ...: (Video); 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. ...; Created on 18 December 2015
21. 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
22. New Book Available at the Gift Shop about Judge Cooke: (Announcements); ... History. Judge Lawrence Cooke was the former Chief Judge of New York State and a lifelong resident of Monticello, NY. The book takes a look at Judge Cooke as a person as well as a respected jurist. The ...; Created on 04 August 2017
23. The Golden Age of The Catskills: (Video); ... n drive around and you can see reminents of that,” Frishman said. “According to the New York Times, in 1953 we had 538 hotels and 1,000 rooming houses and 50,000 bungalows in Sullivan County,” Conway sai ...; Created on 06 July 2017
24. The Borscht Belt: (Now Showing); Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the (now mostly defunct) summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties in upstate New York. Borscht, ...; Created on 17 June 2016
25. Sullivan Life: (Now Showing); When the colony that is now New York State established its first twelve counties in 1683, the present Sullivan County was part of Ulster County. In 1809, Sullivan County was split from Ulster County. ...; Created on 11 June 2016
26. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... O&W. His purchases along the Beaverkill included portions of the Butler place. Perhaps even more popular, were the wild piney woods of Forestburgh. Here, wealthy bankers, lawyers and playwrights from New York ...; Created on 17 January 2016
27. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... Other kids went to school above the movie theater or in the basement of a local hotel. After school, Harold and his friends trapped muskrats to sell to fur dealers from New York City. (Talk about change! ...; Created on 17 January 2016
28. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... til mid-morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams. It also inspired a slew of local and state laws to ensure that nothing ...; Created on 04 January 2016
29. Monticello: (Thompson); ... 869 with the formal opening taking place on January 23, 1871. The name of the little railroad was changed several times before it was taken over by the New York 0 & W in 1903. The 0 & W ran the line u ...; Created on 26 December 2015
30. Hurleyville: (Fallsburg); Hurleyville, New York is a hamlet in the Town of Fallsburg, New York in Sullivan County, New York. The town lies along County Road 104 and was originally developed because it was on the main route between ...; Created on 26 December 2015
31. Sullivan County: (Genealogy Department); Did you know that besides the Sullivan County Historical Society in Hurleyville, New York there are also societies in Tennessee and Indiana. They both have webpages. There is also a Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. ...; Created on 12 March 2015
32. Sullivan County Long Beards: (History Makers); ... Beards are committed to passing on this heritage, as well as the preservation and improvement of habitat, for future generations. The Sullivan County Long Beards is a chapter of New YorkState, ...; Created on 18 October 2014
33. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... Pat and Bill’s beginnings were in New York City. Growing up in the Howard Beach section of Brooklyn, Pat spent a great deal of time wandering though rooms and halls of the BrooklynMuseum, visits that would ...; Created on 18 October 2014
34. 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
35. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); The Cochecton Bridge Company was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York on April 7, 1817, naming as incorporators: William Tyler, Benjamin Conklin, Moses Thomas, Oliver H. ...; Created on 03 November 2011
36. The Village of Narrowsburg: (Tusten); ... eddy. The solid rock sides of the narrows form natural abutments for the several bridges that have spanned the river at this point. It was in 1810 that the New York State legislators granted the Narrowsburgh ...; Created on 20 October 2011
37. 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
38. 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
39. Pike Milestone Back on the Job: (Bethel); ... 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 ...; Created on 22 September 2011
40. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... demolition, set for this February morning…. In an effort to minimize the cost involved with transporting crude oil from the recently discovered oil fields of western New York and Pennsylvania, ...; Created on 28 June 2011
41. D&H Canal: (General History); ... Hudson to New York City and up the river to Canada. The canal was conceived in 1823 by William and Maurice Wurts, two Philadelphia dry goods merchants who had purchased large tracts of land in northeastern ...; Created on 04 June 2010
42. About the Society: (Historical Society); The History of Sullivan County Historical Society The records of the New York State Education Department show that the Sullivan County Historical Society was organized on September 18, 1886. ...; Created on 05 April 2010
43. Edward Van Put: (History Preserver); ... he passed a state examination and accepted a position with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. In those years when he was busy with a job, a new family and working ...; Created on 11 August 2009
44. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... in the county. Max and Louis Kutsher had come to America near the turn of the century as emigrants from a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They worked hard in New York City and saved their money, ...; Created on 11 August 2008
45. 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
46. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2007 Paul Gerry Paul Gerry was born April 1, 1926 in New York City, the son of the late William and Naomi Gorowitz. He attended ...; Created on 11 August 2007
47. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... is described in detail under the Town of Highland. There are also final chapters on new modes of transportation- the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the New York and Erie Railway and the New York and Oswego ...; Created on 11 August 2006
48. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... to Sullivan County in the Catskills area of New York. After attending public schools in Fallsburg, he graduated from the State University of Albany where he received his Master’s degree in English. For ...; Created on 01 June 2006
49. 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
50. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... New York University, studying real estate and business, Max returned to the farm and the life he loved. In 1942 Max and Mimi’s son Sam was born and in 1944 they had a daughter Lois. ...; Created on 01 June 2004
51. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... oking redhead," and she was singled out by Bernard McFadden as that "lovely high jumper, Alice Arden of New York City." In 1936 she was chosen to represent America in the Olympics held that year in Berl ...; Created on 11 August 2003
52. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... e topside exits from steerage were closed. Despite the difficulties of the trip, the family at last arrived in New York City and was soon reunited with Selig. At first, they lived in the East si ...; Created on 11 August 2002
53. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2001 Emma Cooke Chase (1869 – 1944) Educator & Child Advocate An Oneonta, New York native, Emma ...; Created on 11 August 2001
54. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... She worked at advertising in New York City, returned to Syracuse to study for a Master’s degree in Sociology and then left for San Diego to work with some newspapers in California. But the Valley called ...; Created on 11 August 2001
55. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2000 Francis S. Currey Congressional Medal of Honor - WWII Currey was born in Loch Sheldrake, New York, on June 29, 1925. After being orphaned ...; Created on 01 June 2000
56. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 1999 Walter A. Rhulen (1931~1998) Early in this century, Max Rhulen found himself at age four in the strange world of New York ...; Created on 11 August 1999
57. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 1998 William Galbraith Smith (1920-1998) William Galbraith Smith was born in 1920 in Kings Park, New York. The family moved ...; Created on 11 August 1998
58. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... probably agree that the First Citizen of the county was a Monticello man, Lawrence H. Cooke, who became Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. These historians will be impressed with the Judge’s ...; Created on 01 June 1998
59. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... He was born April 22, 1900 in New York City, but when his mother died he and his brother were sent to Sullivan County to live with their grandparents in Fosterdale. From these early years developed his ...; Created on 11 August 1997
60. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... grew potatoes and vegetables. During the summer the family of four (Bob had an older brother) moved into a chicken coop, about 15’ x 15’ and rented the house to guests escaping New York City’s summer heat. ...; Created on 11 August 1996
61. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... of the best equipped studio between New York City and Buffalo. He produced over the years vast numbers of pictures of the county’s development and portraits of its inhabitants. By 1914 he was able to build ...; Created on 11 August 1996
62. 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
63. Frederick A. Cooke: (History Makers); ... had left the county. Despite family responsibilities, he graduated from the New York University College of Medicine in 1890. The death of his wife and infant son the same year prompted him to respond to ...; Created on 01 June 1994
64. World War I Comes to the Museum June 16th: (Past Exhibits); ... event will include a video of images relating to the war. The performances on June 16 and 17 are part of the New York “Path Through History” weekend. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday, ...; Created on 09 June 2018

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