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October 24, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. The United States steamer Juanita has arrived at St. John, Newfoundland … more
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October 17, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 Hunters’ hounds are receiving a thorough training preparatory of next winter’s hunt. This season will prove to be an unbearable one for some bears. … more
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October 10, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 Mr. Henry Rose informs us that the bridge which is situated near his residence is in sad need of repair. P. Jacobs of Youngsville has assumed the directorship of … more
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October 3, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 Mr. A.P. Childs, formerly of the Record, has charge of the Youngsville District School. This seminary is classed among the best around here and the District is to be … more
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Springs at White Sulphur: Glass plate negatives in a collection at the Sullivan County Historical Society’s archives in Hurleyville have contained mostly unlabeled images. A closer look at one plate reveals lettering apparently etched into the rocks: “White Sulphur Springs of New York.” The rest of the letters are tough to decipher. In 1916, the mineral springs in the hamlet of White Sulphur Springs was reviewed by Dr. Felix van Oefele of New York City who suggested that the owner at the time, Mrs. Ada Maffett, might develop it as a health resort.
September 26, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 Mr. Wales of Pike Pond, County Republican Chairman, attended a convention in Saratoga where he met an old associate, George William Curtis, chairman of the … more
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September 19, 2023 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1883 Wish to buy apples for cider and will pay fifteen cents per bushel for good cider apples delivered at my mill. A   Grouten. A special meeting of Frasier Post 361, … more
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September 12, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 The Fremont Union Schuetzen Verein will meet at Fremont Center on Wednesday, September 10. This society already musters   60 members and is now very popular in … more
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Ferndale’s marketplace: This intersection in the town of Liberty has changed a few times. The hamlet was known as Liberty Falls in its early days, but with the advent of train service, the name was causing havoc with the mail, and so it is said the name was changed to Ferndale. The grist mill and original stone bridge are evident in this postcard from the early 1900s. The chimney on the left is a reminder of the tannery that was once located in the hamlet, of which nothing remains. The mill pond, which was drained away long ago, was fed by the Middle Mongaup River which still wends its way through the town en route to Swinging Bridge Reservoir.
September 5, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 The Hankins nitroglycerin factory has suspended operations. More than 800 people were in town on Fair Day in Jeffersonville. The Hortonville Paper Factory … more
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August 29, 2023 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1893 Frederick Warde, the noted actor, is stopping at the West shore House in White Lake. Ex-mayor W.R. Grace of New York is visiting E.N. Knox at the latter’s summer … more
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The ‘cure’ at the springs: Glass plate negatives in a collection at the Sullivan County Historical Society’s archives in Hurleyville have contained mostly unlabeled images. (See other photo for closeup.) We cannot say for certain if this image is of the local springs, or another mineral spring in the state, but that’s part of the mystery that makes it an intriguing image to study. In 1916, the mineral springs site located in the hamlet of White Sulphur Springs was reviewed by Dr. Felix van Oefele of New York City who suggested that the owner at the time, Mrs. Ada Maffett, might develop it as a health resort.
August 22, 2023 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1883 W.D. Haley of Mongaup Valley was the successful competitor in the recent contest for the Cornell Scholarship. Stephen Euker of Callicoon has purchased from Fabian Reel, … more
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August 15, 2023 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1893 Policeman Philip Schmidt of New York is visiting with his family in this vicinity. He came up with a horse and wagon by way of Newburgh. VonBergen and Yager are kept on … more
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August 8, 2023 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1883 A new method of raising money is currently used by some church societies known as break the jug. Just what “break the jug” means we have no way of knowing but … more
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August 1, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 The Clements House of Liberty, purchased last week by Mr. Crispell, has been sold by him to Elias Champlin of that village. The Clements brothers will conduct the … more
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July 25, 2023 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1883 The 8th annual picnic of Sullivan County Lodge No. 421, I.O.O.F. will be held in Inderlied’s Grove near Youngsville on Monday, August 21, 1883. Music will be furnished … more
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July 18, 2023 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1893 Roscoe was the only place in Sullivan County which had a real celebration on the Fourth this year. At the Callicoon Center Schuetzen Verein match on July 4, the prizes … more
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Photography still evolves: This postcard shared by Jim Henke fifteen years ago describes a challenge that photographers today might be glad they missed. According to the notes on the right of the card, the image was a double exposure, one of Klinger’s dam and mill pond in North Branch, and the other of the sheep on parade. The sheep seem to have won out, although the comments (signed by E. Jost) indicate that the photographer thought the glass plate was a lost cause. Without noticing that the plate had already been exposed, the effort was revealed once the plate was developed. Dated in late 1907, we know that the sheep seen here, as well as Klinger’s mill pond, are now long gone.
July 11, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 William Hardenburgh, well known in this part of the county, died in San Francisco, Calif., last Wednesday and was buried there. Mr. Arthur Bird has retired from the … more
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July 4, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 Sheriff Winner was in town the other day armed with papers with which those two worthies, Ludington and Waller, are bound to compel the Board of Supervisors to give Waller a … more
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June 27, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 Mrs. Christina Weintz of Beechwoods has by far the finest orchard in the Town of Delaware, containing about 700 fruit trees, all of choice and selected varieties. John … more
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‘The Summer House’: This Artino postcard at Kenoza Lake conjures up memories of the sunny heat of summer, and the welcome escape to a shady gazebo like this. We can just imagine tunes from a local brass band drifting from the shelter, as night falls and cool breezes waft from the lake — time for an evening stroll! This year, the summer solstice arrives on Wednesday, June 21. Welcome, Summer!
June 20, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 On Saturday the Callicoon Fire Department sold to the newly organized Lake Huntington Fire Department, the hand engine which was used here before the hydrants were put in, … more
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Falls at Reynolds’ Mill: Thanks to Elise Hornbeck for identifying the falls in Glancing Back (May 23, 2023 issue). The feature formerly existed at the Reynolds sawmill on Chestnut Creek, near what is now the New York City DEP sewer facility, which was renovated in 2019. Readers who would like to learn more about the falls, the tannery, or the town of Neversink in general, can visit the Time and The Valleys Museum in Grahamsville to find out more.
June 13, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 Messrs. Gardner, Casey & Co. of Hortonville offers the following rates of good rye straw — $11 per ton is offered for flail threshed rye straw; $9 per ton for … more
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June 6, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 The Lenape Lake Club near Livingston Manor was fined $120 last week for using traps in their private lake. The lake was stocked several years ago and is one of the best … more
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May 30, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 I have just returned from New York and have a complete stock of all that is latest in exquisite millinery and would be pleased to have you call and inspect same. Mrs. … more
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On the road to Grahamsville: This postcard was mailed from Aden post office to Ferndale in 1907. There are several brooks in Grahamsville but what falls are depicted here? If anyone knows this photo’s location, please call Ruth at our Callicoon office at (845) 887-5200.
May 23, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 The Birch Ridge Sunday School picnic takes place today. A pretty banner has been made for the occasion. A shoe peg factory will soon be added to the industries of the … more
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A Delaware River Scene: Postmarked in Hambletville, New York in 1911, this postcard was published by G.V. Millar of Scranton, Pa. The image for the card was likely made from a glass plate negative recently donated to the Sullivan County Historical Society in Hurleyville. When Charles Bergner’s former Callicoon home was sold, the plates were found by the new owners in an outdoor shed. Bergner, who was married to Jenny Curtis, also worked for G.V. Millar as a sales representative for some time, and he traveled in that role to different hotels and boarding houses to sell restaurant supplies. It’s possible that he is the photographer who captured this image in Deposit over a century ago.
May 16, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 The Town of Callicoon may claim with no small degree of pride that it stands alone as the promoter of agricultural interests in our county. We know of no other section in … more
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‘Halsey Corners’ Home: Many people have passed this dwelling at the corner of 17B and Route 115 in Bethel (Pucky Huddle Road) and wondered how soon it will succumb to gravity. Its legacy as part of the Halsey Corners of West Bethel is nearly forgotten, because it likely had its beginning well over a century ago. In 1984, Bethel Historian Beatrice Schoch wrote: “According to Mr. Ralph MacArthur, who owns this building and in whose family it has been for many years before the little building was built, this was never a toll house. It was a wash house behind the barns that were used as a way station for teamsters hauling a distance too great for one team or without a rest. It was moved where it is now about 1900 and used for some years as a home.” The Halsey Inn, which stood across from this on 17B, was reportedly owned by two of Mr. MacArthur’s aunts at one time; his mother was a Halsey before marriage. In the 1850 U.S. census, David Halsey is listed as an innkeeper in Bethel, and the inn is depicted across the road on the 1856 Gates map and the 1875 Beers Atlas. The late Callicoon historian Charles S. Hick wrote in the Sullivan County Record in 1944 about the Halsey Four Corners (as the intersection had been known), adding that they were also known sometimes as the McArthur Four Corners: “Many of you remember the ruins of the old tavern and the numerous barns that were a part of the es­tablishment... Here the horses on the turnpike stage coach were changed at that time and the passengers were provided with meals [at the hotel]... Every one was served with a meal, fresh horses were hitched to the coach, and every one was on his way with as little loss of time as possible.”
May 9, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 The “island” in the Delaware River was completely swept away by the late flood. Mr. Charles Muller of Jeffersonville has recently produced an accurate and … more
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