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On or about June 20 in 1872, the D&H Canal Company received some good news. The NYS Court of Appeals had upheld a lower court ruling that had granted the canal company a rate increase in its …
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John Conway
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6/20/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
A colt whose front feet were divided into toes, the left one having four and working much like the foot of a dog, and the right having two like the claws of a lobster, was …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/17/25
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It was sometime after 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Friday, June 13, 1913 that the fire alarm sounded in the village of Liberty, and by the time firemen responded, a number of buildings were …
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John Conway
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6/13/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Diphtheria is again raging at Roscoe. Five families have had it and four deaths have occurred from it within a few months.
Grocery Bargains: 7 lbs. sugar, 35¢; 7 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/10/25
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Jack Kelly, the author of the highly acclaimed 2023 book, “God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man” said recently that he was “very …
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John Conway
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6/6/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Erie depot at Narrowsburg was burglarized Thursday night. The thieves ransacked the ticket office, express office and freight depot, and even broke the weighing machine …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/3/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
The Callicoon correspondent of the Press says, “A new local paper has been started in this village. It is edited by the school teacher and called the Callicoon Valley …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/27/25
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It was late in May of 1909, and D.W. Griffith was putting the finishing touches on his plan for a trip that would forever change the business of making movies. Those changes would begin right here in …
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John Conway
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5/23/25
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110 Years Ago - 1915
While it is known that Narrowsburg is the center of the Sullivan County egg belt, the fact is not appreciated. To have shipped nearly 400,000 eggs in a day less than two …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/20/25
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At approximately 11:30pm on May 9, 1775, a force of colonial militia under the joint command of Colonels Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold began crossing Lake Champlain in an operation that would …
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John Conway
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5/16/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
While John Wortzell, an Erie track walker and a resident of Shohola, was screwing up a loose joint in the track at a point called “Red Rocks,” between Shohola …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/13/25
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It may seem difficult to believe today, but there was a time when Sullivan County apple producers shipped apples to every state in the country except for Washington and Oregon. Local apple orchards …
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John Conway
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5/9/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Clarence, the four-year-old son of Edward Porter of Liberty, found a small bottle of arsenic pills one evening last week and supposing that they were for little boys to eat, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/6/25
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It was early May in 1933, and one of America’s most notorious gangsters was lying low in Sullivan County, passing the time with a couple of bodyguards in a secluded hunting lodge in …
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John Conway
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5/2/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Mrs. Sarah Harris died at her home in Monticello March 26, at the age of 104 years.
The New York O&W Railway announces that on April 9 they will run an excursion to …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/29/25
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On April 23, 1823, the D&H Canal Company was incorporated in New York State, and a little more than two years later ground was broken for one of the most transformative projects in American …
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John Conway
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4/25/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Sander farm at Youngsville which was sold at partition sale at Eagle Hotel on Saturday, was struck off to Mrs. Brittom of Jersey City, one of the heirs, for $625. She …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/22/25
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It was on a dreary Monday afternoon in April of 1940 that the last of the bodies linked to Murder, Inc. turned up in Sullivan County.
That day, law enforcement officials, piecing together …
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John Conway
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4/18/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
While digging in the cellar of the court house at Monticello a few days ago, one of the workmen found an old Spanish coin, dated 1779, for which he has been offered sixteen …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/15/25
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It may be difficult to believe based on life along the Delaware River today, but the area wasn’t always a tourist destination. In fact, in its earliest days, it wasn’t particularly …
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4/11/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Theodore A. Cook, the creamery man near Callicoon Depot, will soon commence the manufacture of condensed milk. He is now bottling a milk preparation, made by a secret …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/8/25
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There was quite a commotion in Sullivan County government circles in the spring of 1930, as officials came to grips with a surprising revelation: the village of Monticello had supplanted the village …
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John Conway
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4/4/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
John Edwards of East Hill has sold his farm to William Miller of New York. Consideration $1800. Mr. Edwards will go to Tioga Co., Pa.
Mrs. Anna S. Miller has sold her …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/1/25
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Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, the notorious Brooklyn mobster who helped run the enforcement arm of organized crime fashionably dubbed Murder, Inc., sat in the Manhattan jail called the Tombs and …
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John Conway
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3/28/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Last week the snowstorm throughout Sullivan County was so severe that many jurors could not reach Monticello in time to attend court. Some jurors who went by way of Port …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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3/25/25
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