The heavy late September rains that are still falling as this column is being written are a stark reminder of the destruction floods have caused along the Delaware River over the years.
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John Conway
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9/29/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
Mr. Wales of Pike Pond, County Republican Chairman, attended a convention in Saratoga where he met an old associate, George William Curtis, chairman of the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/26/23
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It was late September in 1965, and the Sullivan County Democratic Committee was in complete disarray.
As the party prepared for its reorganizational meeting at the Hotel Lenape in Liberty on …
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John Conway
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9/22/23
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140 Years Ago - 1883
Wish to buy apples for cider and will pay fifteen cents per bushel for good cider apples delivered at my mill. A Grouten.
A special meeting of Frasier Post 361, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/19/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Fremont Union Schuetzen Verein will meet at Fremont Center on Wednesday, September 10. This society already musters 60 members and is now very popular in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/12/23
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For many years, September meant primary day in political circles, and often the campaigns waged in anticipation of those elections were more heated— and sometimes more consequential— than …
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John Conway
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9/8/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Hankins nitroglycerin factory has suspended operations.
More than 800 people were in town on Fair Day in Jeffersonville.
The Hortonville Paper Factory …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/5/23
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It was late August of 1968, and the people of Sullivan County were all abuzz about the latest development in a long list of attempts to save the sagging economy here.
The county’s Golden …
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John Conway
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9/1/23
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130 Years Ago - 1893
Frederick Warde, the noted actor, is stopping at the West shore House in White Lake.
Ex-mayor W.R. Grace of New York is visiting E.N. Knox at the latter’s summer …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/29/23
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According to records, only four men were hanged for treason in the state of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. Robert Land was very nearly the fifth.
Land, the Justice of the Peace in …
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John Conway
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8/25/23
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140 Years Ago - 1883
W.D. Haley of Mongaup Valley was the successful competitor in the recent contest for the Cornell Scholarship.
Stephen Euker of Callicoon has purchased from Fabian Reel, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/22/23
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Shortly after emigrating from Russia in 1908, Abraham and Molly Brickman fled the overcrowded tenements of New York City and purchased land just outside South Fallsburg in Sullivan County. Like many …
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John Conway
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8/18/23
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130 Years Ago - 1893
Policeman Philip Schmidt of New York is visiting with his family in this vicinity. He came up with a horse and wagon by way of Newburgh.
VonBergen and Yager are kept on …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/15/23
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The story of Charles E. Becker, one of the most notorious natives of Sullivan County ever, continues to fascinate people to this day.
Born on July 26, 1870 in Callicoon Center, Becker lived and …
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John Conway
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8/11/23
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140 Years Ago - 1883
A new method of raising money is currently used by some church societies known as break the jug. Just what “break the jug” means we have no way of knowing but …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/8/23
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The author Larry Kidder describes his book, “The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis: 1754-1836” as “a story of grit and determination combined with kindness and …
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John Conway
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8/4/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Clements House of Liberty, purchased last week by Mr. Crispell, has been sold by him to Elias Champlin of that village. The Clements brothers will conduct the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/1/23
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140 Years Ago - 1883
The 8th annual picnic of Sullivan County Lodge No. 421, I.O.O.F. will be held in Inderlied’s Grove near Youngsville on Monday, August 21, 1883. Music will be furnished …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/25/23
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130 Years Ago - 1893
Roscoe was the only place in Sullivan County which had a real celebration on the Fourth this year.
At the Callicoon Center Schuetzen Verein match on July 4, the prizes …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/18/23
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On July 15, 1869, Noah Bigelow of North Branch became the third man to be hanged for murder in Sullivan County’s history.
Just three days earlier, New York Governor John T. Hoffman had …
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John Conway
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7/14/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
William Hardenburgh, well known in this part of the county, died in San Francisco, Calif., last Wednesday and was buried there.
Mr. Arthur Bird has retired from the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/11/23
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Cushetunk, the first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley was established around 1755 by a group of Connecticut farmers calling themselves the Delaware Company. The settlement …
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John Conway
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7/7/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
Sheriff Winner was in town the other day armed with papers with which those two worthies, Ludington and Waller, are bound to compel the Board of Supervisors to give Waller a …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/7/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
Mrs. Christina Weintz of Beechwoods has by far the finest orchard in the Town of Delaware, containing about 700 fruit trees, all of choice and selected varieties.
John …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/27/23
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110 Years Ago - 1913
On Saturday the Callicoon Fire Department sold to the newly organized Lake Huntington Fire Department, the hand engine which was used here before the hydrants were put in, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/20/23
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