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1. SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020 (2020-01-29): (Events Calendar/SCHS First Sunday Concert 2.2.2020); ... The Johnny Jules band performed on Woodstock weekend, and entertained folks with great sixties music, and stories of the festival itself. On February 2nd, at 2:)) PM for the first time, Little Sparrow ...; Created on 29 January 2020
2. Museum Reopening (2021-07-11): (Events Calendar/Museum Reopening); ... (D&H) Canal Interpretive Center in Summitville are once again open to the public. “It’s great to be able to unlock the doors to these special destinations,” affirms Sullivan County Parks Director Brian ...; Created on 11 July 2021
3. Rockland: (Category); ... with only three-sixteenths. Livingston Manor, Roscoe and Rockland are located in Great Lot #4 containing 94,608 acres of land. At the close of the Revolutionary War, scouts and land viewers from ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. Neversink: (Category); ... or Liberty or perhaps they had to go in and board. Our communities were quiet rural communities – the great boom of the 1800’s and the tanneries was over. The communities located along the river beds ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Mamakating: (Category); ... I eagerly accepted the offer and today we have an archive room, a great meeting room with many pictures and histories of all the areas of Mamakating and many artifacts of our area. We have165 members and ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fallsburg: (Category); ... man who had great ideas for the area. Although he fulfilled few of his goals, others later achieved them. Soon after the tanning industry was started in Sullivan County in 1831, a tannery was built at ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Departments: (Category); Sullivan County Historical Society List of Departments Our organization is a small, all volunteer organization that has a limited amount of resources and funds. To greatly help us attend to your requests ...; 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. Cochecton: (Category); ... therefore easy to understand why land disputes in the region continued for many years. Pre-Revolutionary War Cochecton was considered an important post to Sullivan County’s great fur trade. The plentiful ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Callicoon: (Category); ... in the fall of 1814. In 1833 George DeWitt, a great-grandson of John DeWitt, built a house and became a resident, not far from where the first log cabin was built in 1813. Another early settler was ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. Bethel: (Category); ... a great economic boost for the area at this time. The mid 1800’s saw the beginning of the hotel construction. The very first ones were started as wayside inns and most were developed from ...; Created on 30 November -0001
12. The Great Monticello Fire - Rep-Watchman Aug 13th 1909 ...: (Thompson); $1,000,000 FIRE IN MONTICELLO BUSINESS SECTION GUTTED Seventy-Four Places of Business and Residence Go Up in Smoke-—A Sorry Spectacle—But Monticello Will Build Again. The larger part of the business ...; Created on 16 February 2018
13. William "Bill" Burns Memorial: (News); ... 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. ...; Created on 29 March 2020
14. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... released their first CD, “Late Night, Early Morning”, influenced by such greats as Bessie Smith, Gus Cannon, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Maria Muldaur, David Bromberg, The Quarrymen and Hot Tuna. Rick Nestler wrote ...; Created on 12 March 2020
15. Please donate to help us preserve the Republican Watchman!: (Announcements); ... Main Menu of our Website. Please designate the donation is for the newspaper archival project. Money donated to this project will only be used for preserving and maintaining this great Historical treasure. ...; Created on 14 September 2016
16. Elsie Winterberger: (History Preserver); ... of this town inside out. I even know town history they hoped I didn’t know.” Known for being persistence and with unrelenting energy, Elsie’s spirited advocacy of history helped raise greater awareness ...; Created on 17 January 2016
17. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... is my father’s great sympathy for and generosity toward others. When I was in high school he gave money to a student he didn’t know so the boy could go to college. When I was a student in Israel, he sent ...; Created on 17 January 2016
18. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... ciety Magazine. Lang and Goldstein had picked his name out of the magazine; suddenly, Markoff was responsible for gathering sound gear for the greatest show on earth. He remembers one characteristic of the ...; Created on 04 January 2016
19. Monticello: (Thompson); ... ry. Monticello was quick to rebuild; replacing many of the wooden buildings with more fire resistant ones made of brick. Unfortunately replacing the beautiful trees that once lined Broadway would take a g ...; Created on 26 December 2015
20. The Rich History of one Catskills hotel: (Video); Visit: http://www.classiccatskills.com/ for an updated version of this video plus photos and memories of the Catskills region. Kutsher's is one the last great Catskills resorts still in business. At it ...; Created on 18 December 2015
21. 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
22. FABULOUS FOOTWEAR: (Past Exhibits); The Sullivan County Historical Society has a new exhibit displaying footwear from great-grandma’s era (pre 1900) to the 1960’s. Many styles of today resemble shoes of the past. ...; Created on 30 July 2014
23. Gladys Olmsted: (History Makers); ... great drama in public health nursing, “cutting down the rate of premature infant births, helping someone with polio move a muscle.” “How could you not be excited?” Gladys brought the county’s public ...; Created on 25 November 2013
24. From the Genealogist: (Genealogy Department); ... farmer and worked in a tannery in Great Bend, Pa. Elizabeth is buried in the First Lutheran Church Cemetery in Jeffersonville. Their daughter Josephine, one of five children, was born in 1859 in Jeffersonville ...; Created on 11 May 2012
25. The Cochecton Bridge Company, Inc.: (Cochecton); ... a new span was built at a cost of $15.50 per lineal foot. Travel resumed until the great flood of February 8, 1857. At that time the entire bridge was carried away. The abutments and piers were the ...; Created on 03 November 2011
26. Along the Neversink.....: (Neversink); "...John R Tompkins, father of Ross, was a drover and a great maple sugar maker. So much so that he was known in Monticello and Ellenville as Sugar John. John Low, Phoebe Low, and Vick Chamblin ran the ...; Created on 07 October 2011
27. Along the Neversink....: (Neversink); ... oxen in a short span of winter months, and thus $100 steers became $200 oxen. There was Dave Teller, the fighter - and could he fight! He was a great horse and stock raiser and owned the horse known ...; Created on 07 October 2011
28. A Sketch of Mongaup Valley -By Alice Tillotson: (Bethel); ... latter capacity Tillotson joined the Federal Army during the Great Rebellion, contracted yellow fever and died. In a letter written to his brother, Howard Tillotson, by his commanding officer, tellin ...; Created on 29 September 2011
29. Mutton Hill Burying Ground; II: (Neversink); ... fe of James Brown. Daughter of Seth Gillett. Born 1783. Died 1836. "Mehelabel Hall. Born 1736. Died 1812 (born over two hundred years ago and died during the second conflict with Great Britain) "Ez ...; Created on 01 September 2011
30. About the Society: (Historical Society); ... caused primarily by the great depression and WWII, the organization became alive once more through the efforts of James W. Burbank, the Sullivan County Historian. Newspaper articles appeared inviting all ...; Created on 05 April 2010
31. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... survivor of the many famous resorts which at one time formed the Golden Age of the Catskill hotels. Over a full century, three generations of Kutshers managed to survive two world wars, a great depression, ...; Created on 11 August 2008
32. 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
33. James Eldridge Quinlan: (History Preserver); ... chapters which take up almost the first one hundred pages. Another source of knowledge was provided by friends and neighbors who had actually lived through events he described. He was greatly concerned ...; Created on 11 August 2006
34. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... Neiderman that he “writes reality based horror novels that involve humans battling other humans in the eternal battle of good vs. evil.” Both with great respect for his work ethic and his artistic goal ...; Created on 01 June 2006
35. Daniel Skinner: (History Makers); ... usand men could be in Narrowsburg for the night during the spring freshet. Many rafts were sold before they reached tidewater at Trenton and this enabled Easton to become the greatest log market on the ...; Created on 11 August 2005
36. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... shown great perseverance in the face of many disappointments, but as a result of his efforts and of those who shared his dream, Roscoe today can boast a museum complex composed of a Train Order Signal, ...; Created on 11 August 2005
37. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... Hodge. Well, that's one way of meeting your future husband. The two were married the following year-a union which lasted 64 years and at last count was responsible for three children, ten grandchildren, one great-gr ...; Created on 11 August 2003
38. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... (Mimi) and Robert, six grand-children and six great grand-children. Because Bethel was Bee’s home, she began her historical career with a ten year stint as Historian for the Town ...; Created on 11 August 2003
39. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2002 Jennie Grossinger 1892-1972 Jennie Grossinger, like so many immigrants, had a great love of America and worked very hard to be worthy ...; Created on 11 August 2002
40. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... suggested a career related to automobiles and he, therefore, enrolled in Georgia Tech to study mechanical engineering. However, once in college, other interests emerged. He had two great teachers: one ...; Created on 11 August 2002
41. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... in a better fashion. Respectfully compiled by: Virginia Durland Smith (Great-Grandaughter) June 2001 The majority of information for this writing was gleaned from Tales Told Out of School The Life ...; Created on 11 August 2001
42. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... Town of Delaware historian. About the same time Tom and Elaine DeGaetani with their great vision of the region’s potential were bringing together various organizations to form the Delaware Valley Arts ...; Created on 11 August 2001
43. Delbert Van Etten: (History Preserver); ... Hurleyville High School which the county government was setting up as a museum. Del was elected President of the Society in 1972 and 1973 and was greatly involved in all the planning and moving. ...; Created on 11 August 2000
44. Francis S. Currey: (History Makers); ... gh his extensive knowledge of weapons and by his heroic and repeated braving of murderous enemy fire, Sgt. Currey was greatly responsible for inflicting heavy losses in men and material on the enemy, ...; Created on 01 June 2000
45. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); ... and the following year was named President of the Rhulen Agency. The Agency steadily grew as did the family’s confidence to face greater challenges. In 1977 the family created the Frontier Insurance Company ...; Created on 11 August 1999
46. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... that position until 1992 and greatly expanded its responsibilities. Within the title of County Historian, Bill was designated Building Director for the Sullivan County Museum, Art and Cultural Center as ...; Created on 11 August 1998
47. Lawrence H. Cooke: (History Makers); ... legal accomplishments, but they will be even more impressed with his character. They will note that the Judge was a man who achieved a position of great responsibility, who changed the judicial landscape ...; Created on 01 June 1998
48. John Raleigh Mott: (History Makers); ... his talk with the appeal, “Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” Mott was so moved by those words that on the spot he committed his life to religious ...; Created on 11 August 1997
49. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... the republic. A John Burbank settled in Rowley, Massachusetts as part of that great Puritan migration from England in the 1630’s and there were Burbank ancestors who served in most of the nation’s wars. ...; Created on 11 August 1997
50. World War I Comes to the Museum June 16th: (Past Exhibits); The Sullivan County Historical Society invites you to the opening of its new exhibit commemorating the centennial of World War I titled “The Great War – World War I”. The opening will take place on ...; Created on 09 June 2018

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