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Cushetunk, 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. The settlement …
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John Conway
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7/7/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/7/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/27/23
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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, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/20/23
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Late in the afternoon of Friday, June 21, 1940, a jury of 11 men and one woman delivered a verdict in one of the most famous trials ever conducted in Sullivan County Court.
They found Irving …
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John Conway
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6/16/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/13/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/6/23
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It is probably safe to say that the participants in last Sunday’s bus trip to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway and the closing of the second annual Festival of …
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John Conway
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6/2/23
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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. …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/30/23
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On May 23, 1789, Nathaniel Sackett sent a long, rambling letter to newly inaugurated president George Washington. The letter informed Washington that Congress had denied Sackett’s proposal that …
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John Conway
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5/26/23
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/23/23
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As far back as 2012, Debra Conway, at that time beginning her second year as the Director at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History in Narrowsburg, was advocating for an annual festival in the …
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By John Conway
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5/19/23
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