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February 21, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 The Rev. F.A. Crane will supply the Presbyterian Church at Youngsville and Jeffersonville next Sabbath. Service at Youngsville 10:30 a.m. and at Jeffersonville 3 p.m. … more
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The regimental flag of the 26th Infantry, United States Colored Troops.
The 26th regiment, U.S.C.T.
It was in December of 1863 that the United States War Department authorized the Union League Club of New York to recruit, train and equip an infantry unit to fight for the North in the Civil War. The … more
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February 14, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 A train on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s railroad ran 22 miles in 21 minutes a few days ago. Middletown has a woman who has lived within nine miles of … more
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One of the few photos extant of Philip Del Fungo Giera.
Was bungalow project a del fungo con?
In 1930, when the population of Sullivan County was just over 35 thousand, Census figures reveal there were just 91 African-Americans living here. That’s slightly more than one-quarter of one … more
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February 7, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 The youth of Hurd Settlement have of late manifested a very commendable desire for education. Quite a number have entered the Eureka High School in Mongaup Valley for the … more
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The artist Francis W. Davis's conception of Albion Hall, created for the Sullivan County Historical Society's “Directory to Quinlan's History.”
The end of Albion Hall
It was February of 1903, and the embers were still smoldering from the fire that had destroyed one of the most historically significant buildings in the county just a few days before.   It … more
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January 31, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 District Attorney Alpheus Potts, assisted by E.H. Pinney, moved last Wednesday that the indictment against Jerome Masten for assault on the person of James Collins of … more
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The Concord in Kiamesha Lake was the leader in winter sports activities among the Sullivan County resorts beginning in the 1950s and '60s.
Building winter tourism economy
The history of Sullivan County as a winter sports destination dates back to at least the 1920s, but the attempt to create a year around vacationland here did not meet with immediate success.   … more
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January 24, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1873 Charley Quick, that model hunter, has shot 43 foxes this winter. With the aid of a welltrained dog, a good gun and a Quick ear, he has proven himself a terror to the fox … more
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Dr. Alfred Lebbeus Loomis.
Retrospect
It was Saturday, January 26, 1895, and throngs of mourners were gathered at the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan for the funeral of one of America’s most prominent doctors. Dr. Alfred … more
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January 17, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 Frank Miller of Middle Village, L.I., and Mrs. Elizabeth Kalbfleisch of White Sulphur Springs, were united in marriage Wednesday, January 8 at the Catholic Church in … more
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Shelley Winters in 1949.
Retrospect
On January 14, 2006, the renowned actress Shelley Winters died at the Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, where she had been a patient since a heart attack three months before. Sources differ as … more
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January 10, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 Frank Miller of Middle Village, L.I., and Mrs. Elizabeth Kalbfleisch of White Sulphur Springs, were united in marriage Wednesday, January 8 at the Catholic Church in … more
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Bethel Supervisor George Neuhaus.
Retrospect
As regular readers of Retrospect have no doubt learned, the long era during which Sullivan County was governed by the Board of Supervisors was often marked by heated exchanges and stubborn political … more
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January 3, 2023 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1913 Perhaps one of the largest fires which has ever occurred in the village of Jeffersonville took place shortly before 4 o’clock when the large boarding house of John … more
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Liberty Supervisor William Pearson, a Democrat, made the controversial motion to adjourn the 1967 reorganizational meeting of the Board of Supervisors to Maimonides Hospital so Neversink Supervisor Joe Raffa, a patient there, could vote.
Retrospect
While there are some who act as if provocative rhetoric and heated political battles in Sullivan County government are unique to the current legislature, the fact is that both were common occurrences … more
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December 27, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 John E. Baldwin died Sunday in his 68th year. He was one of the old pioneers of the county and years ago lumbered and rafted it along the Delaware. He began steering rafts … more
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Sullivan County International Airport had the longest runway between New York City and Buffalo when it opened in 1969.
A Giant Step Forward
It was December 19 of 1967, and 150 spectators and “innumerable luminaries from all levels of government, the professions, and industry” were gathered on the former site of Camp Israel in … more
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December 20, 2022 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1882 James Meyers of Michigan is visiting his brother, William, at Eldred. The remarkable thing is that he left that section in 1829 and has not seen his brother since. … more
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December 13, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 James Brandi, an Italian aged 16 years, and Julius Brooks, 12, were struck by an O&W coal train at the Strongtown crossing two miles south of Ferndale a week ago … more
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The Flagler Hotel in South Fallsburg as it appeared in 1964 after the expensive additions that eventually led to its demise and subsequent re-purposing as the Crystal Run school.
A new look for old hotels
In December of 1975, the New Hope Community, a facility caring for people with developmental disabilities, opened its doors at the former site of the recently closed Green Acres Hotel in Loch … more
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Our thanks to Bob Theadore who shared this vintage image of the Central Hotel in Fremont Center which was featured last week. The Library of Congress website offers a glimpse of the 1875 Beers Atlas for a closer look at the area (visit tinyurl.com/mu7y28m3). At that time, the Buckleys owned a great number of buildings including the Buckley Tannery in Fremont, some lived in by their employees, it is supposed. It appears that in 1875, the building (later known as the Central Hotel and even later named the Blue Bird Inn) was then occupied by B.P. Buckley, a matter for further research.
December 6, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Michael McCue passed peacefully away a week ago last Sunday afternoon at his home in Damascus. He was in his eightieth year. While going to the McCue home to pay his respects, … more
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Current Liberty Central School District Liberty Indians logo. 
Liberty Indians
The New York State Education Department—presumably having solved all of the other problems with the public schools in the state— has ordered all districts to stop using Native American … more
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The Central Hotel The record of Fremont Center’s Central Hotel begins circa 1884 when the hotel advertised with M. Gabriel as proprietor, “refitted in first class shape and open for the traveling public.” It was later conducted by Conrad and Anna Maus for over 30 years, and by 1913 was the site of such festivities as the 4th of July “with fireworks and a base ball game in the afternoon.” A common gathering place, the Fremont Grange held meetings in the hotel’s hall, and a Binghamton dentist traveled there to see patients monthly. By 1925, when it was purchased by John Hermann, it had became known as the Blue Bird Inn, which it remained into the 1960s, run by later by family members Richard and then Rudy Hermann. The hotel photo at top is from the New York liquor licensing bureau photos, from the 1930s, now held in the archives at the Sullivan County Museum at Hurleyville.
November 29, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Chris Hunt Jr. of Narrowsburg area has just purchased a 1,000 egg electric incubator which is one of the most modern machines made. . . M. Schuliar of Cochecton Center is … more
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Greenwald V. Board of Supervisors
The recent passing of longtime Mamakating Supervisor Dennis Greenwald brought forth an outpouring of condolences from county residents who remember him, as well as myriad musings about his … more
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