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Charles E. Becker circa 1912
Against the Evidence
On July 30, 1915, Charles E. Becker was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, the first police officer ever executed for murder in this country. Becker was born on July 26, 1870 in … more
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Joseph Brant as painted by William Berczy circa 1807.
Death and Destruction on the Frontier 
On October 14, 1778, Dr. Benjamin Tusten, a Goshen physician who served as a Lt. Colonel in the Orange County militia’s 3rd Regiment, wrote letters to George Washington and Governor George … more
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Dr. Benjamin Tusten was killed while attending to the wounded at what has become known as Hospital Rock.
The Battle of Minisink  
On July 20, 1779, Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief fighting for the British, led a raiding party of Native Americans and Tories against the settlement at Pienpack, near present-day Port … more
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The John Land House. His story is one of many that will be told at “Patriots and Loyalists” at Fort Delaware tomorrow.
Patriots and Loyalists
During the Revolutionary War, the region between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was home to two of the most notorious Tories of the era, Claudius Smith of Orange County and Robert Land of Cushetunk. … more
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The Declaration of Independence and a Tory response will be read aloud at Fort Delaware on Saturday, July 10.
Tories 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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Former Sullivan County Historian James W. Burbank founded Fort Delaware in 1957. He is pictured here at the Fort with his daughter Peggy. The Fort has entered a new era, as going forward, the non-profit history education group, The Delaware Company will be operating it in partnership with Sullivan County.
A New Era Begins for Fort Delaware
The first time the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to the public was in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776, making the residents of that city the first outside of the government to learn of … more
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Director D.W. Griffith and cameraman Billy Bitzer on location in Cuddebackville where they discovered “the light
“The Light Mr. Griffith Waited For” 
A few people sitting on the front porch of a Barryville home on the Delaware River last weekend learned firsthand what moviemakers in the region discovered more than 100 years ago. There is a light … more
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The Upper Delaware's First Suspension Bridge
John A. Roebling was born in Prussia on June 12, 1806. Educated as an engineer, but finding the political unrest in his home country stifling, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1831 with a small group … more
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Apples Rise Again
Only a handful of those present at the Seminary Hill Orchard and Cidery in Callicoon last week for a discussion about the role of apples and apple cider in Sullivan County history seemed surprised to … more
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A Solemn Day of Remembrance
On September 4, 1919, young Charles Henry Murran died of typhoid fever at St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was perhaps the last Sullivan County soldier whose life was claimed in “the … more
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The House by the Side of the Road
It was May 21, 1964, and 500 prominent Liberty residents gathered in the new high school auditorium on Buckley Street in the village to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of one of the area's most … more
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Doctors Say, “Go to the Mountains!”
Long before the O&W Railway began touting Sullivan County's healing environment in the 1880s, the Erie Railroad had been established along the county's western edge. By 1849, the Erie had been … more
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