150 Years Ago - 1874
We notice the Jeffersonville Record this week makes the announcement that they have begun to observe the Sabbath in that place. There is some hope of them yet. A few …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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3/26/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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3/22/24
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150 Years Ago - 1874
Hay pressing has become quite an important feature among our home industries. Quite a number of men are pressing the article in this neighborhood and shipping the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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3/19/24
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130 Years Ago - 1894
John Mootz and the team have been assisting George Weyrauch in drawing logs which are intended for a new house.
Young America is endeavoring to organize a sporting …
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3/12/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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3/8/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
The Wayne County Independent comes to us very much improved and enlarged. It is now a nine column paper and very newsy.
Why use a gritting, muddy disagreeable article …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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3/5/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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3/1/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
A current report that Messrs. E.A. Clark & Company intend to purchase the bark, owned by Wales of Pike Pond. If this could be effected, our tannery will hold out for the …
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2/27/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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2/23/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
Last Thursday the rapidly rising stream created quite some excitement in Jeffersonville. The abutment of John Beck’s footbridge was knocked down by the ice, leaving it …
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2/20/24
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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 …
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John Conway
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2/16/24
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140 Years Ago - 1884
All hands are at Court this week.
C.A. Heinley of Narrowsburg made his usual trip through this village last Thursday.
Joseph Seibert Jr., who has been in New …
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Compiled by Lee Herman, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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2/13/24
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