- 1. Highland
- (Category)
- ... 75, the postmaster C .P. Eldred renamed the post office in memory of his father, James Eldred. The inhabitants of Yulan originally wanted to name their hamlet "Laurel" or "Mountain Laurel". However, the ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 2. Fremont
- (Category)
- ... settlers in Fremont wanted to become a new town and opposed its creation. Later the Buckley family became one of the most prominent families in Fremont and the family provided four supervisors for the ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. Genealogy Volunteers Wanted ...
- (Genealogy Department)
- Did you know that the SCHS Genealogy Department has an extensive obituary file? I have been involved with catching up with the backlog of obituaries that have been in our archives. The obituaries are ...
- Created on 11 March 2015
- 4. VOLUNTEERS WANTED ...
- (Announcements)
- VOLUNTEERS WANTED Do you like history? Do you like genealogy? The Sullivan County Historical Society in Hurleyville (the Museum and Research Center) is looking for volunteers in many areas, especially ...
- Created on 28 September 2014
- 5. The Golden Age of The Catskills
- (Video)
- ... city wanted to come up and visit these little farms because they had fresh milk and they had eggs and fresh air,” Frishman said. That's what many Jewish immigrants did, purchasing inexpensive land in Sulliv ...
- Created on 06 July 2017
- 6. Elsie Winterberger
- (History Preserver)
- ... the spelling discrepancy. What happened next is best described by Elsie herself; “I went to the town board and told them I wanted 10 minutes from every meeting which other historians praised as a real accomplishment. ...
- Created on 17 January 2016
- 7. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... op Festival, which drew 40,000 people. At 24, Lang was the manager of a rock group called Train, which he wanted to sign to a record deal. He bought his proposal to Kornfeld at Capitol Records in late De ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 8. Monticello
- (Thompson)
- ... was determined that spring and it was precisely where Samuel Jones wanted it. The brothers then determined where to build their intended city. It was at this time that the name Monticello was given to ...
- Created on 26 December 2015
- 9. The Hamlet of Lava
- (Tusten)
- Another community in the Town of Tusten is Lava. The area was not named on the 1875 Beer's map although a school was shown. When applying for a post office, an early group of residents wanted to call th ...
- Created on 20 October 2011
- 10. Searching For Gillette
- (Neversink)
- ... in 1804, in the Town of Neversink, and dying at Kansas in 1854, but the researcher wanted to find information concerning his ancestor's life; place of residence, what was the reason for the move out wes ...
- Created on 07 October 2011
- 11. Searching For Gillette
- (Research Department)
- ... in 1804, in the Town of Neversink, and dying at Kansas in 1854, but the researcher wanted to find information concerning his ancestor's life; place of residence, what was the reason for the move out wes ...
- Created on 20 August 2011
- 12. Edward Van Put
- (History Preserver)
- ... book form. He realized that he was not interested in simply rewriting stories that other writers had already covered. He wanted to get as close to events as he could and this meant he ...
- Created on 11 August 2009
- 13. Emma Cooke Chase
- (History Makers)
- ... Chase supervised, monitored, inspected, visited and managed sixty schools in the Third District of Sullivan County. At this stage of her life, Mrs. Chase knew exactly what she wanted for her schools and ...
- Created on 11 August 2001
- 14. Walter A. Rhulen
- (History Makers)
- ... His mother wanted her family to assimilate as quickly as possible and Max and his three brothers responded to her encouragement and worked hard to find their niche in this new world. ...
- Created on 11 August 1999
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