110 Years Ago - 1912
Saturday was a record breaker in Cochecton when city boarders arrived with every train loaded. It is said that nearly 400 people arrived, for different locations.
Robert S. …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/9/22
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Nearly 400 years ago, in 1626, a ship carrying eleven slaves was unloaded in New Amsterdam by the Dutch West Indies Company. Those eleven men are believed to be the first African Americans brought to …
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John Conway
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8/5/22
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110 Years Ago - 1912
Editor Hones of the Roscoe Review has recently been elected president of the New York State Editorial Association.
Several detectives attached to the central office of …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/2/22
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It was Saturday, July 31, 1937 and two vacationers in a rowboat on Swan Lake made a grisly discovery on the surface of the lake. It was the body of a man, all trussed up and tied to a rock and a slot …
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John Conway
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7/29/22
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110 Years Ago - 1912
On Wednesday one of the worst storms we have had visited this section, accompanied by severe thunder and lightning. Long Bros. boarding house in Beechwoods was struck and one …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/26/22
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On July 20, 1779, Joseph Brant, a Mohawk fighting with the British, led a raiding party of Indians and Tories against a settlement near present-day Port Jervis. It was their second raid upon the area …
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John Conway
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7/22/22
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140 Years Ago - 1882
One of the lady boarders at the summer hotel at Guymard’s took a dram and a half of Fowler’s solution by mistake last Sunday. Dr. Cuddeback of Port Jervis …
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7/19/22
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Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and several of his novels — “Main Street,” “Babbit,” “Elmer Gantry,” etc. …
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John Conway
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7/15/22
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110 Years Ago - 1912
Saturday afternoon, during the heavy thunderstorm, lightning struck the chimney of Jacob Dreher’s house in the Beechwoods, and nearly killed two little girls, Louisa …
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7/12/22
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The first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley was established around 1755 by a group of Connecticut farmers calling themselves the Delaware Company, and within a few years …
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John Conway
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7/8/22
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110 Years Ago - 1912
The safe in the post office of South Fallsburg was blown some time during last Tuesday night by yeggmen and over $2,000 in money and stamps was secured. There is no trace of …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/5/22
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The notion of the American War of Independence as a civil war is by no means a new one, but it has gained new traction of late because of the 2021 book “America’s First Civil War: …
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John Conway
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7/1/22
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