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The Park View Hotel on Broadway will be one of the lesser-known hotels in the village examined in the presentation “Monticello Hotels” at the Crawford Public Library on Tuesday, July 30 at 6 p.m.
Monticello Hotels
In his 1945 essay about the village of Monticello, Adelbert M. Scriber, Sullivan County’s first official County Historian, wrote about the many changes that had taken place in the village since … more
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The annual commemoration of the Battle of Minisink is tomorrow (Saturday, July 20) at 4 p.m., at the Minisink Battleground Park, 58 County Road 168 in Barryville.
The Battle of Minisink: a Personal View
Dan Myers says the Battle of Minisink is very personal to him. His fourth great-grandfather, also named Daniel Myers, fought in the battle on the desolate Barryville hilltop on July 22, 1779 and … more
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The Declaration of Independence will be read aloud at Fort Delaware tomorrow, followed by a passionate Tory rebuttal, and then... well, who knows what might happen then...
Patriots and Loyalists at Fort Delaware
It used to be a well-kept secret that Cushetunk, the first European settlement in the Upper Delaware River Valley, was populated mostly by Tories in the years immediately preceding and during the … more
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Dr. Alfred Lebbeus Loomis.
Loomis: The Man, the Sanitarium and the Search for the cure
In June of 1896, the face of Sullivan County was changed forever, as the Loomis Memorial Sanitarium for Consumptives just outside Liberty admitted its first 12 patients. The original five … more
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Authorities recover the body of Maurice Carillot from Loch Sheldrake on May 30, 1939.
The corpse in the custom-made suit
Decoration Day, Tuesday, May 30, 1939, turned out to be a day Melvin Holt and George Dubner, two boys from Brooklyn vacationing with their families in Loch Sheldrake, would never forget. Holt … more
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Benjamin Harrison, a Civil War Colonel before he was U.S. President, urged Americans to make Memorial Day a “joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what these men and women did.”
A Triumphant Commemoration
By most accounts, Memorial Day as it is presently celebrated has its roots in the tradition begun on May 30, 1868 of decorating with freshly bloomed flowers the graves of those soldiers who gave … more
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An artist’s depiction of Dr. Benjamin Tusten treating a fellow militia man at the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779.
True to his oath
He was born in Southold, Long Island on December 11, 1743, and moved with his family to the banks of the Otterkill near Goshen just three years later. His father, a Colonel in the New York State … more
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Sullivan County District Attorney William Deckelman (left) and Sheriff Harry Borden (on the ground, right) join State Police and Deputy Sheriff Jay Lass in unloading slot machines that had been confiscated in Bethel earlier in the day.
The Annual Slot Machine Battle
Those familiar with the history of the Sullivan County resort industry are well aware of the process. After a long, dormant winter, the resorts awakened in the spring to prepare for the summer … more
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The Lenape settlement they called Manhatta, which is today part of New York City.
The Lenape Language
Neversink, Minisink, Mamakating, Shawangunk-- most people who have lived in Sullivan County for any length of time, or have visited here regularly, are aware of these rather strange sounding place … more
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Hikers at the 2022 Highland History Hike at the Minisink Battleground Park.
Celebrate the Trails at the Minisink Battleground Park
In his ‘History of Sullivan County,” published in 1873, James Eldridge Quinlan labeled Cushetunk resident Nathaniel Evans a “mischief making fellow and a nuisance” to his … more
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The casino at White Roe opened in 1929.
Livingston Manor’s Golden Age Hotels
The summer of 1929 was a significant one in the history of Sullivan County’s resort industry. In Fallsburg, the Flagler Hotel, perhaps the most prominent of the County’s hotels at … more
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Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct, the oldest wire rope suspension structure in the U.S. (National Park Service Photo).
Celebrating the first crossing
On April 26, 1849, the first boat crossed over the newly built wire rope suspension aqueduct on the Delaware River designed by John A. Roebling for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. … more
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Mother Polycarpa.
Mother Superior
Catherine Staigele was born in Brooklyn in 1870, but spent nearly all of her professional life in Sullivan County. She was as accomplished during her lifetime as perhaps any woman in the area, and … more
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An illustration by Robert Sauber from the book, “A Night Sky Lined with Silver.”
The night sky lined with silver
Back in 2005, author Yvonne David set her first children’s book, “Out of the Apple Orchard” in the hamlet of Mountaindale in 1910. The book told the story of a young boy named Adam … more
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Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa.
Dr. Roosa passes away
On March 8, 1908, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, one of New York City’s most prominent doctors and a native of Sullivan County, suffered a major heart attack and died. Few men from the … more
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Jean Amatucci Fox in 2020. She was the first woman to represent Sullivan County in the New York State Assembly, the first Registered Nurse elected to the NYS Assembly, and the first woman to give birth while in office in the NYS Legislature.
Sullivan County’s first assemblywoman
The fact that since 1987 the month of March has been celebrated as Women’s History Month in this country provides an interesting perspective on the recent announcement by Assemblywoman Aileen … more
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Sunset Acres
In many ways, Sunset Acres in Parksville was typical of a small 1960s Sullivan County resort, offering guests “beautiful lobbies, filtered swimming pool, a comfortable large dining room, tennis … more
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The 26th U.S.C.T. on parade in 1864.
Henry C. Jackson
Henry Clay Jackson of Wurtsboro lived one of the most eventful lives of any resident of Sullivan County ever, and yet few today are familiar with his name. For one thing, Jackson, an African … more
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William and Fannie Harden.
Harden’s Forestview Lodge
For decades, Fannie Harden worked alongside her husband William to build the Forestview Lodge near Swan Lake into a successful business, carrying on alone after his death. When she passed away, the … more
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Author Michael J. Worden will be in Eldred on Saturday, February 10.
Lynched by a mob
On June 2, 1892, an angry mob of several hundred men dragged Robert Lewis nearly half a mile through the streets and hanged him from a tree. Lewis, also known as Robert Jackson, was an African … more
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A charcoal portrait of New Mexico’s John Sullivan, circa 1871.
The saga of Monticello, New Mexico
Those familiar with Sullivan County history likely know the story well: the brothers Samuel Frisbee Jones and John Patterson Jones, born in Connecticut, came here from Columbia County around 1804 and … more
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Longtime Fallsburg Supervisor Mortimer Michaels was a vocal supporter of moving the county highway facility from Barryville to Monticello.
To move or not to move
The great division of eastern and western Sullivan County has reared its head politically several times over the years, perhaps no more so than in the heated controversy over moving the … more
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Main Street, Jeffersonville circa 1914. The Eagle Hotel is visible just to the right of center. 
An impending centennial
Even before New York Governor Kathy Hochul cleared the way last week for a new village to be formed in Sullivan County—a referendum on January 18 will determine the fate of what is proposed to … more
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The Erie Railroad depot in Narrowsburg.
A Christmas miracle
It was December 14, 1917, and a Christmas miracle-- and the diligent work of local firemen-- prevented a good portion of the hamlet of Narrowsburg’s business district from being incinerated. … more
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“The Catskills: Its History and How it Changed America” is one of the most important books ever written about the history of the region and should be on every local history buff’s bookshelf.
Books about local history always make great gifts
With another holiday season nearly here, it is time for this column’s annual reminder that books about Sullivan County’s rich and colorful history always make great gifts, but especially … more
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