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At approximately 11:30pm on May 9, 1775, a force of colonial militia under the joint command of Colonels Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold began crossing Lake Champlain in an operation that would …
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5/16/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
While John Wortzell, an Erie track walker and a resident of Shohola, was screwing up a loose joint in the track at a point called “Red Rocks,” between Shohola …
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5/13/25
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It may seem difficult to believe today, but there was a time when Sullivan County apple producers shipped apples to every state in the country except for Washington and Oregon. Local apple orchards …
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5/9/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Clarence, the four-year-old son of Edward Porter of Liberty, found a small bottle of arsenic pills one evening last week and supposing that they were for little boys to eat, …
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5/6/25
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It was early May in 1933, and one of America’s most notorious gangsters was lying low in Sullivan County, passing the time with a couple of bodyguards in a secluded hunting lodge in …
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5/2/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Mrs. Sarah Harris died at her home in Monticello March 26, at the age of 104 years.
The New York O&W Railway announces that on April 9 they will run an excursion to …
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4/29/25
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On April 23, 1823, the D&H Canal Company was incorporated in New York State, and a little more than two years later ground was broken for one of the most transformative projects in American …
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4/25/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Sander farm at Youngsville which was sold at partition sale at Eagle Hotel on Saturday, was struck off to Mrs. Brittom of Jersey City, one of the heirs, for $625. She …
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4/22/25
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It was on a dreary Monday afternoon in April of 1940 that the last of the bodies linked to Murder, Inc. turned up in Sullivan County.
That day, law enforcement officials, piecing together …
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4/18/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
While digging in the cellar of the court house at Monticello a few days ago, one of the workmen found an old Spanish coin, dated 1779, for which he has been offered sixteen …
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4/15/25
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It may be difficult to believe based on life along the Delaware River today, but the area wasn’t always a tourist destination. In fact, in its earliest days, it wasn’t particularly …
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4/11/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Theodore A. Cook, the creamery man near Callicoon Depot, will soon commence the manufacture of condensed milk. He is now bottling a milk preparation, made by a secret …
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4/8/25
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There was quite a commotion in Sullivan County government circles in the spring of 1930, as officials came to grips with a surprising revelation: the village of Monticello had supplanted the village …
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4/4/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
John Edwards of East Hill has sold his farm to William Miller of New York. Consideration $1800. Mr. Edwards will go to Tioga Co., Pa.
Mrs. Anna S. Miller has sold her …
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4/1/25
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Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, the notorious Brooklyn mobster who helped run the enforcement arm of organized crime fashionably dubbed Murder, Inc., sat in the Manhattan jail called the Tombs and …
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3/28/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Last week the snowstorm throughout Sullivan County was so severe that many jurors could not reach Monticello in time to attend court. Some jurors who went by way of Port …
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3/25/25
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The grisly enforcement arm of the organized crime syndicate fashionably dubbed by the media of the day as Murder, Inc., was responsible for no less than eight murders in Sullivan County during the …
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3/21/25
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110 Years Ago - 1915
Some time ago, Supt. Chas. Hick inaugurated a series of spelling matches between the pupils and schools of his district. Recently at a Grahamsville match at which Mr. Hick …
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3/18/25
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As spring approached in March of 1961, a brand new organization was gearing up to increase tourism in the Sullivan County Catskills. And it did not involve a single hotel.
The Catskill …
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3/14/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Twenty-four years ago Richard Wolf of Haverstraw said when the next Democratic President was elected he would walk to Washington to see the inauguration. In accordance with …
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3/11/25
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There are many colorful clergymen who have passed through the pages of Sullivan County’s history over the years, but none more noteworthy than Reverend Benjamin Montanye, who presided over the …
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3/7/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Mr. Porter’s first trip to Jeffersonville this week was a lengthy journey. He says he started from Liberty Wednesday morning and arrived there about 4 p.m. His delay …
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3/4/25
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On March 2, 1785, a group of Baptists in New Vernon in the town of Mamakating organized what is believed to be the first church in the area that would later become Sullivan County. Reverend Eleazer …
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2/28/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The law is now in force forbidding forms of gambling: no more pooling; no more raffles and fish ponds at church fairs; no more “chances” in drawing for …
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2/25/25
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On February 22, 1767, Benedict Arnold, a young, up and coming businessman, married Margaret Mansfield, whose father was the Sheriff of New Haven, Connecticut. Arnold, of course, would go on to become …
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2/21/25
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