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1. Rockland
(Category)
... the Railroads which opened the area and promoted the great boom of the resort area. This article was compiled with information from the Roscoe Bicentennial booklets and Pioneer magazine.  ...
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Railroads ...
(Category)
History of the Railroads in Sullivan County Reports and News clippings from the Museum Archives.  ...
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Mamakating
(Category)
... trip. The D and H Canal helped bring prosperity to Mamakating and all of Sullivan County. In 1899 the railroad came and marked the beginning of the end for the D and H canal. In recent years there has ...
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Lumberland
(Category)
... Erie Railroad on the Pennsylvania side, destined to become the curbs and sidewalks of New York City. It was about the early 1870’s that Glen Spey was becoming a summer resort residence of such large ...
Created on 30 November -0001
5. Highland
(Category)
...   It was not until the Delaware and Hudson canal was opened in 1828 that the region was opened to the outside world.  When the Erie Railroad was completed the area began to enjoy a tourist business.  T ...
Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fremont
(Category)
... two years before the Erie railroad began.  If the Miles tannery produced any leather before 1851, the hides must have come across country from Liberty and the D. & H. canal at Ellenville. The tannery ...
Created on 30 November -0001
7. Forestburgh
(Category)
... y and store.  The railroad was commissioned to serve the area and a post office was necessary.  Resorts and summer camps soon emerged. Charles Gilman, nephew, served as Town supervisor from 1891 -93 a ...
Created on 30 November -0001
8. Fallsburg
(Category)
The History of the Town of Fallsburg By Judy Magie The History of the Town of Fallsburg can be divided into two parts, one describing the town and its growth before the railroad and the other relating ...
Created on 30 November -0001
9. Delaware
(Category)
... dner established a paper mill. Callicoon Depot, as it was first known, did not exist until the building of the Erie, America's first long line railroad. During construction of the Erie's Delaware Di ...
Created on 30 November -0001
10. County History
(Category)
... resorts replaced logging camps and farmhouses became boarding houses. With the railroads providing easy access to the county for the first time, the tourism industry really began to grow.    The western ...
Created on 30 November -0001
11. Cochecton
(Category)
...  reconstruction of the oldest railroad station in New York State has been completed. This railroad station was dismantled from its original site in the hamlet of Cochecton and relocated to the norther ...
Created on 30 November -0001
12. Callicoon
(Category)
... River. Callicoon continued in relative isolation until it was relatively certain the railroad would be built through in the mid-1800s. John DeWitt, born in Dutches County and later a long time merchant ...
Created on 30 November -0001
13. Elsie Winterberger
(History Preserver)
... for visiting outdoorsmen. Willis also worked as a sawyer and carpenter, but was perhaps best known as being a stone mason. With the coming of the railroad during the latter part of the nineteenth century, ...
Created on 17 January 2016
14. Monticello
(Thompson)
... er, the village was not as fortu­nate with the railroad. Although one survey for the Erie Railroad went to Monticello, when the final route was determined it did not go near the village. Later when the Mid ...
Created on 26 December 2015
15. The Fallsburgh Tunnel
(Fallsburg)
... causing serious problems for the railroad company. Throughout the spring of 1930, railroad workers worked at the tunnel below South Fallsburgh, relining the northern portal with a new ceiling of curved ...
Created on 25 November 2012
16. Early History of Youngsville
(Callicoon)
...  fine hemlock trees in this section, the bark of which was used in the tanning process, many tanneries were set up along the creek.  Then, with the building of the Erie Railroad in the Callicoon section ...
Created on 03 November 2011
17. The Village of Narrowsburg
(Tusten)
... long and 22 feet in width. In 1840, Abraham Cuddeback built the Narrowsburg Hotel, which helped make the new name, Narrowsburg, familiar. The Erie Railroad reached Narrowsburg in 1848, opening up the Town ...
Created on 20 October 2011
18. The Town of Tusten
(Tusten)
... the Delaware Valley from Deposit to Port Jervis. Another area industry was the quarrying of blue stone. Stone harvested in the region was transported from here across the river to the Erie Railroad by ...
Created on 20 October 2011
19. The Oil Pipeline
(General History)
... that had become a highly familiar beacon to river rafts-men, railroaders and highway travelers as they passed through this section of the valley.   The large brick chimney had once belched the exhaust ...
Created on 28 June 2011
20. D&H Canal
(General History)
... ny became America's first million-dollar private enterprise. The Canal operated successfully until the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company made a unique transition in 1898 into a railroad company, becoming Amer ...
Created on 04 June 2010
21. Paul Gerry
(History Preserver)
... new business called The Cutting Edge.                   One of Paul’s special interests was that of railroads. He was a founding member in 1982 of the Catskill Society of Model Train Engineers – an outgrowth ...
Created on 11 August 2007
22. James Eldridge Quinlan
(History Preserver)
... Midland Railroad (later the New York, Ontario and Western Railway) which were transforming county life.                   In an Appendix, Quinlan wrote that he had completed 250 pages of manuscript which ...
Created on 11 August 2006
23. Daniel Skinner
(History Makers)
... iver. For those men who made the entire run, it was a long trip back to Narrowsburg and their homes further upstream. After the railroads came, the raftsmen could take the train to Jersey City and then  ...
Created on 11 August 2005
24. Wilmer Sipple
(History Preserver)
... the construction of new railroads to facilitate business and agriculture. This need for a railroad was particularly keen in the area in New York State between the New York Central which crossed the northern ...
Created on 11 August 2005
25. John Conway
(History Preserver)
... the Victorian and Edwardian years. In an era when railroads initially opened up the county as a tourist destination the first generation of hotels provided a foundation for the great resort industry which ...
Created on 11 August 2002
26. Emma Cooke Chase
(History Makers)
...                   Mr. and Mrs. Cooke made their home in Cooperstown Junction for the next 13 years. Emma kept their home and raised their daughter Gladys Emma Chase, who was born on May 29, 1894. The Railroad ...
Created on 11 August 2001

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