150 Years Ago - 1873
The Birch Ridge Sunday School picnic takes place today. A pretty banner has been made for the occasion.
A shoe peg factory will soon be added to the industries of the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/23/23
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As far back as 2012, Debra Conway, at that time beginning her second year as the Director at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History in Narrowsburg, was advocating for an annual festival in the …
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By John Conway
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5/19/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Town of Callicoon may claim with no small degree of pride that it stands alone as the promoter of agricultural interests in our county. We know of no other section in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/16/23
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Long before the O&W Railway touted the healing environment that was Sullivan County beginning in the 1880s, the Erie Railroad had been established along the county’s western edge.
By …
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John Conway
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5/12/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The “island” in the Delaware River was completely swept away by the late flood.
Mr. Charles Muller of Jeffersonville has recently produced an accurate and …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/9/23
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Few Sullivan County residents have ever attained the success of Arthur C. Butts of Monticello– lawyer, assemblyman, judge, and published author– and yet there are only a handful of locals …
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John Conway
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5/5/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The new charter of the village of Port Jervis passed both houses of the legislature.
Our neighbor, Mr. Scheidell of Jeffersonville, has completed a new fence on the border …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/2/23
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It seems as if a number of those who chose to celebrate April as National Humor Month last week by taking in this columnist’s presentation of “Laughter is the Best Medicine: The Borscht …
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John Conway
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4/28/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
Pigeons are again flocking over the county. Several flocks have been seen at different points.
Owing to considerable opposition, it is doubtful if Monticello’s …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/25/23
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Hurleyville’s Milk Train Trail and Barryville’s Minisink Battleground Park are the venues for two more in a long line of popular History Hikes, this time to again commemorate national …
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John Conway
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4/21/23
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110 Years Ago - 1913
A. Brown and A. Mitchell of the garage firm of Mitchell and Brown have dissolved partnership. Mr. Brown will open and conduct a machine shop and garage on the completion of a …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/18/23
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Like so many other Sullivan County hotel trends, from Mission style architecture to telephones in the rooms, it all started with the Flagler.
In 1929, Asias Fleischer and Philip …
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John Conway
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4/14/23
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