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110 Years Ago - 1911
Edward Gardner and Frank Walker expect to return to Callicoon in the near future as they have nearly completed the house of Milton Armstrong in Long Eddy and are now working …
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Ruth Huggler
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11/2/21
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Absentee ballots have often made the difference in election results in Sullivan County, and the fact that they sometimes account for considerable controversy is nothing new.
Sometimes it is the …
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John Conway
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10/29/21
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110 Years Ago - 1911In the booth of weights and measures at the Madison Square Garden Food Show was a sign stating that Sullivan County was among the three worst counties in the state. Only 47 out of …
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Ruth Huggler
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10/26/21
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The Supervisor’s race in the town of Liberty in 1947 was one of the strangest—and most drawn out-- in Sullivan County history.
The race pitted the popular Democrat, Francis …
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John Conway
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10/22/21
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110 Years Ago - 1911
Acting under the most secretive operations, surveyors have been stopping at Bridgeville and Monticello making surveys of the Neversink Valley below Bridgeville in the …
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Ruth Huggler
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10/19/21
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On October 14, 1899, the imposing Administration Building at the Loomis Sanitarium was reduced to little more than a pile of rubble in less than three hours by a fire the Liberty Register newspaper …
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John Conway
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10/15/21
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130 Years Ago - 1891
The firm in Liberty known as Young and Messiter has been changed to Young, Messiter and Co. Frank Md. Dodge of Rockland and Charles Messiter have been taken in as …
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Ruth Huggler
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10/12/21
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While the Upper Delaware River Valley was still a rugged frontier wilderness in the middle of the 18th century, farmland was becoming scarce in eastern Connecticut, and some of the Connecticut …
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John Conway
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10/8/21
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110 Years Ago - 1911
Miss Bertha A. Rudolph and Floyd L. Brown of Monticello were married there Thursday. The couple were attended by the groom’s sister, Miss Lena E. Brown and …
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Ruth Huggler
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10/5/21
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North America was still mostly an uncivilized place in the early 1750s, and open warfare between the British and the French in their struggle to control the new continent, as well as the unhappiness …
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John Conway
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10/1/21
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110 Years Ago - 1911
Callicoon has had the honor of entertaining “Jimmy” Ward, the famous aviator, who is flying from New York City to San Francisco for the Hearst $50,000 prize, for …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/29/21
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The Remarkable Life of James Beecher, Ed Van Put’s fourth book, was recently published and tells the tale of a historic figure in the Beaverkill Valley.
Van Put’s other books revolved …
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Anthony Morgano
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9/28/21
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