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1. Tusten
(Category)
The town was previously part of the Towns of Mamakating and Lumberland in 1853. Benjamin Homans was the first settler, setting himself up by Narrowsburg. The Ten Mile River Baptist Church and Tusten Stone ...
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Rockland
(Category)
... other end by sun-down.  The First Settlers & Township Development         The renowned Hardenburgh Patent set the stage for the eventual development of the Catskills. Johannes Hardenburgh and associates ...
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Mamakating
(Category)
The History of the Town of Mamakating The town of Mamakating was organized on March 7th, 1788 and was the first township of Sullivan County. The first county seat was Bloomingburgh; incorporated in 1833. ...
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Lumberland
(Category)
A BIT OF LUMBERLAND HISTORY By an act of the State Legislature, Lumberland came into existence as a township on March 16, 1798, taking in an area that was bounded in the east by the Mongaup River and ...
Created on 30 November -0001
5. Liberty
(Category)
... making it the fourth oldest of Sullivan County’s fifteen townships. The area is credited with providing 303 men who fought in the Revolution. Liberty was originally carved from the then large townships ...
Created on 30 November -0001
6. Highland
(Category)
On December 17, 1853, by an act of the Sullivan County Supervisors, the towns of Highand and Tusten were taken from the Town of Lumberland and each made an independent town.  Both towns are in the southwestern ...
Created on 30 November -0001
7. General History
(Category)
The Following articles fall under general or (County Wide) historical significance. They can include articles that either take place and/or effect "multiple towns" in the county, and/or are somehow significan ...
Created on 30 November -0001
8. 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
9. Forestburgh
(Category)
Forestburgh is one of the smallest of the fifteen towns of Sullivan County bordered by Thompson, Lumberland and Mamakating. Early inhabitants in the 1780's were of Celtic, German and Sweedish ancestry. ...
Created on 30 November -0001
10. Fallsburg
(Category)
... Legislature passed an act establishing the Town of Fallsburg. The town was created from portions of the already existing towns of Thompson and Neversink and derived its name from the falls located there ...
Created on 30 November -0001
11. Delaware
(Category)
... cluding today's Towns of Bethel, Highland, Cochecton, Liberty, and Tusten - was formed in 1798. In 1869, the Town of Delaware was taken from the Town of Tusten. The first supervisors of the Town were ...
Created on 30 November -0001
12. County History
(Category)
... with Chester W. Chapin owning more than 20,000 acres covering several towns, and William Howe Crane forming the Hartwood Club in Forestburgh.  Economist Henry George founded what became a mecca for artists ...
Created on 30 November -0001
13. Cochecton
(Category)
... Mamakating, the Town of Cochecton was a part of that town. Later, when Bethel separated from Lumberland, the area now known as the Towns of Cochecton and Delaware were a part of Bethel. Finally, in 1828, ...
Created on 30 November -0001
14. Callicoon
(Category)
... of Newburgh, caused the first road to be made in the township and oversaw the clearing of much land. In 1807, DeWitt, along with others, agreed to build a road from Newburgh to Cochecton, portions of which ...
Created on 30 November -0001
15. Along The Neversink in the Seventies
(Category)
... He would later become Highway Superintendant for Sullivan County. Recalling his youth at the township of Neversink, Monroe published personal recollections of Neversink, and its memorable folks. The articles ...
Created on 30 November -0001
16. Sullivan Life
(Now Showing)
... into towns.  Lifestyle and Household furniture and neccesaties have changed a lot since the days the county was formed. This Exhibit will show what the typical home life was like with displays of Furniture, ...
Created on 11 June 2016
17. Elsie Winterberger
(History Preserver)
... historical roadside markers and restoring a post office in the township. Her campaigns to preserve Forestburgh’s historical heritage often went to higher levels. With the proposed upgrade of the main thoroughfare ...
Created on 17 January 2016
18. How Woodstock Happened...
(General History)
... riving up in Volkswagen Beetles and beat-up cars. Wadleigh's plot ran like this: Woodstock would be a modern-day Canterbury Tale, a pilgrimage back to the land. He wanted the film to be as much about the ...
Created on 04 January 2016
19. Monticello
(Thompson)
... eers and settlements in the Town of Thompson, but they were not permanent. In 1794, Mr. Thompson, a native from Litchfield County, Connecticut, purchased be­tween twenty and thirty thousand acres in the  ...
Created on 26 December 2015
20. St. George's Roman Catholic Cemetery - Callicoon
(Callicoon)
LOCATION:  Callicoon Township FAMILY:  AKA: REF: NOTES:  1843    ...
Created on 13 April 2012
21. Early History of Youngsville
(Callicoon)
According to historians of Sullivan County, the present village of Youngsville, situated in the Township of Callicoon, was formally settled by Samuel M. Young, a member of the respectable Liberty family ...
Created on 03 November 2011
22. The Mutton Hill Burying Ground
(Neversink)
August 11, 1938, Liberty Register "In the northeastern section of Sullivan County and in the southwestern corner of the township of Neversink on the north bank of the famous trout stream from which i ...
Created on 27 October 2011
23. The Town of Tusten
(Tusten)
The Town of Tusten was part of the Town of Mamakating from 1743 to 1798. In 1798 the Town of Lumberland was formed from Mamakating which included the Towns of Tusten and Highland. In 1853 Highland and ...
Created on 20 October 2011
24. Along the Neversink in the Seventies
(Neversink)
... He would later become Highway Superintendant for Sullivan County. Recalling his youth at the township of Neversink, Monroe published personal recollections of Neversink, and its memorable folks. The articles ...
Created on 07 October 2011
25. Mystery of Missing Marker
(Thompson)
... s Durland and Bert Feldman at the NYS Highway Department offices from Monticello to Binghamton to Albany drew a blank look and no information at the county and township level. Acting State Historian Willi ...
Created on 22 September 2011
26. The Oil Pipeline
(General History)
... the forests, the pipe was laid on top of the ground. The preparatory work progressed rapidly, the workers often clearing the route as far as two miles a day. Railroad towns along the Erie’s Delaware ...
Created on 28 June 2011
27. Mongaup Cemetery
(Fallsburg)
LOCATION:  Cemetery Road, Hurleyville, NY AKA:   Fallsburg Township, Potters Field FAMILY:  Information on burials at this cemetery is not available at this time.    ...
Created on 03 June 2010
28. St. Tammany Flat Cemetery
(Cochecton)
LOCATION:  Cochecton Township AKA:  None FAMILY:  Information on families buried in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF:  None  ...
Created on 03 June 2010
29. Old Lake Huntington Cemetery
(Cochecton)
LOCATION:  Cochecton Township FAMILY: Keesler Family - Information on burials in this cemetery can be found at Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, NY 12747 AKA: 1st Presbyterian Church ...
Created on 03 June 2010
30. Methodist Church of Cochecton Cemetery
(Cochecton)
LOCATION:  Cochecton Township - Began in 1845 AKA: FAMILY:  Information on burials in this cemetery is not available at this time. REF: None  ...
Created on 03 June 2010
31. James Eldridge Quinlan
(History Preserver)
... towns, beginning with Bethel and ending with Tusten. (Cochecton and Delaware were combined into one chapter.) He writes in detail and with affection for the men and women who lived in a particular town ...
Created on 11 August 2006
32. Andrew Neiderman
(History Makers)
... director of dramatics and wrestling coach. He was appointed historian for the Town of Fallsburg and wrote the Sesquicentennial History of Fallsburg Township. Also, during this time, he married the former ...
Created on 01 June 2006
33. Wilmer Sipple
(History Preserver)
... in Little Ferry. There then ensued over a decade of frustrations. The car was 86 feet long and there was difficulty in finding a location which the townsfolk would approve. Also, there was the problem of tr ...
Created on 11 August 2005
34. James Burbank
(History Preserver)
... has been lost. A more successful venture entailed a photographic record of the County. He wrote to the Town Historians and asked them to list the important places in their towns. He was then able to go ...
Created on 11 August 1997

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