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A photo of the new building at St. Joseph’s Seraphic College in Callicoon while still under construction.
St. Joseph’s Seraphic College
On Sunday, May 29, 1927, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, of the Archdiocese of New York of the Roman Catholic Church, traveled to Sullivan County to dedicate the new chapel at St. Joseph’s Seraphic … more
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Former Sullivan County Historian James W. Burbank, founder of Fort Delaware, in 1957.
The Other Fort Delaware Story
While it would be unfair—and inaccurate-- to say that James W. Burbank got the idea to build Fort Delaware in Narrowsburg because of the popularity of the Walt Disney television production of … more
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The Laurels in Sackett Lake circa 1920.
The Laurels
Of all the 538 hotels of Sullivan County’s Golden Age, none were as innovative as the Laurels Country Club on Sackett Lake. The Laurels, the brainchild of Hyman and Sadie Novick, had started … more
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The theater at the Olympic Hotel in Fallsburg.
Shakespeare in the Catskills
It was April 24, 1966, and Sullivan County’s Golden Age of tourism was beginning to perceptibly slip away when the New York Times ran an article with a Fallsburg dateline about an incongruous … more
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During the Revolutionary War, patriot “scouts” from Orange County made frequent visits to the upper Delaware seeking reprisals against the Loyalists who resided there, arresting or killing those they found.
Neighbor Against Neighbor
It was April of 1777, and America’s War of Independence, which had started almost exactly two years before with the fighting at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, had long since reached … more
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Fire destroyed much of the former Brown’s Hotel in Loch Sheldrake ten years ago this week.
How Quickly We Forget 
It was ten years ago this week that fire destroyed the former Brown’s Hotel in Loch Sheldrake in a blaze that was tragic for so many reasons it doesn’t seem to matter whether or not it … more
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The Highland History Hike is Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m. at the Minisink Battleground Park.
A Highland History Hike at The Minisink Battleground
One of the deadliest battles of the Revolutionary War was fought on a desolate hilltop just north of present day Barryville on July 22, 1779. In terms of the percentage of men killed in relation … more
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The Lenape culture, language and legacy will be the subject of a presentation at the Time and the Valleys Museum in Grahamsville beginning at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 3.
They called themselves Lenape
On May 1, 1777, while attending the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia as the Revolutionary War raged around him, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail in Massachusetts, that the city was … more
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A canal boat and its crew, including young hoggees, about to enter Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct on the D&H Canal.
Hoggees on the Towpath
No one seems certain of the origin of the term hoggee, the canal worker, typically a child, who was responsible for taking care of and leading the horses or mules used to tow the boats on the … more
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Denise Lombardi of the Hurleyville General Store with “To The Mountains by Rail.”
Bringing a classic back to life 
Denise Lombardi is not a native of Sullivan County—she has lived in Hurleyville for just a few years now—but she has developed a real appreciation for the region’s history. The … more
Millicent C. Flynn
Millicent C. Flynn
Approximately 40 men have served in the position of County Clerk since Sullivan County was formed in March of 1809, including four of them in the space of less than a year during a particularly … more
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Young Phebe Reynolds cuts her father down after he had been attacked by Tories and hanged in his own home.
Phebe Reynolds Drake
Although there were a number of women who distinguished themselves in the earliest days of European settlement in this region, most of their names have been lost to time, and only a few of their … more
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