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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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