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It was early in 1782, and the Revolutionary War had been raging for seven long years when 21-year-old Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtleff and enlisted in the Fourth …
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John Conway
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8/23/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Henry DeWitt of this village has given his home a coat of paint which added neatly to its appearance.
George R. Trusdell (the dentist) will be as usual at …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/20/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
J.P. Bogardus of this village has a magnificent garden, especially a fine display of that aesthetic plant, the sunflower.
H.W. Wood, our stage driver, has a horse in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/13/24
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When the Cushetunk settlement was established along the upper Delaware River in the mid-1750s by a group of farmers from eastern Connecticut, two brothers, Simon and John Calkin, were among the …
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John Conway
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8/9/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
George Wood brought into the Sullivan County Record office last Monday, an oat head which measured fourteen inches and had one hundred and six well developed kernels on it. …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/6/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
The contract for rebuilding the old red bridge in Jeffersonville was let on Saturday last to the lowest bidder, who was Oliver Hofer. The price is $290.
The Sunday News …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/30/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/26/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Twenty cans of milk are now shipped from Liberty to New York City daily.
The National Union Bank of Monticello has declared a semi-annual dividend of three percent.
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/23/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/19/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Tusten Lodge #467, I.O.O.F., will hold their second annual picnic in the beautiful Delaware Park at Narrowsburg, Sullivan County, on Thursday, July 26.
Eel fishing is …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/16/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/12/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
The Fourth in Jeffersonville — It is fitting and right for the people of Jeffersonville, who live in the village named after the author of the glorious Declaration of …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/9/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
It is reported on good authority that a $50 counterfeit bill is circulating in this vicinity. We therefore duly notify our patrons and subscribers that nothing higher than …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/2/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Your correspondent “C” falls into an error in regard to the name of our village and his error is so common that I will endeavor to set him and the general public …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/25/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
A week ago as Mrs. William Hessinger, near Callicoon, was boiling soft soap, their oldest child, a two-year-old girl, drank some of the strong lye from the basin, unknown to …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/18/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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6/14/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Last Saturday night, somebody took great pains in completely daubing a new lumber wagon with black paint, which stood in the street opposite the barber shop in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/11/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Hank Smith is the funniest looking object we have seen in a long time. A hurricane seems to have blown his mustache clean off.
If anybody wants to see a McDonell …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/4/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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5/31/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Long Eddy — Vegetation in this section had a very hard struggle with the frost on May 28. Leaves and blossoms on chestnut and butternut trees were all killed and those …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/28/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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5/24/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
The school known as the “Brag Hollow” in the Town of Fremont has had three teachers since last fall. The first, a Miss Layton, received an offer that evidently …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/21/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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5/17/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
A gang of men are engaged in repairing the telegraph line of the Western Union Company between Port Jervis and Monticello. The men are under the direction of Supt. Holmes …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/14/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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5/10/24
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