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Sullivan County

The Borscht Belt in Winter: Catskills Winter Resorts

February 6, 2021 by John Conway Leave a Comment

toboggan run was at the Laurels in Sackett Lake.Although the number of Sullivan County hotels open during the winter months increased significantly beginning in the 1940s, there were attempts to market the county as a winter resort long before that. [Read more…] about The Borscht Belt in Winter: Catskills Winter Resorts

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: skiing, Sullivan County, weather, winter, winter sports

One Not-So-Benign Influence Of The D&H Canal

January 26, 2021 by John Conway 3 Comments

canal boats unloading their coal at RondoutThe positive impacts of the Delaware & Hudson Canal on Sullivan County were indisputable. With its opening in 1828, the 108-mile-long waterway made it possible for the first time to easily transport goods in and out of the area, and directly led to the growth of the tanning and bluestone industries. Entire communities, such as Barryville, Wurtsboro and Phillipsport, owe their very existence to the D & H, and while the canal was in operation, each was among the largest communities in the county in terms of commerce and population. [Read more…] about One Not-So-Benign Influence Of The D&H Canal

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Western NY Tagged With: Delaware & Hudson Canal, Medical History, Public Health, Sullivan County, Transportation History

Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

December 23, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

OntheTowpathDuring the month of December in 1824, brothers William and Maurice Wurts were diligently planning a presentation to potential investors in their ambitious project to build a canal connecting their coal fields in northeastern Pennsylvania to the Hudson River. [Read more…] about Sullivan County D&H Canal History Highlighted With ‘Kate Project’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: D&H Canal, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Hudson River, Industrial History, New York City, Sullivan County, Transportation History

1868: Lynch Law Averted; Due Process Death Prevails

November 24, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

Judge Charles R. IngallsOn September 8th, 1868, upon returning from work to his North Branch home in the Catskills for his noontime meal, Alanson Seager discovered that his ten-year old daughter was missing. [Read more…] about 1868: Lynch Law Averted; Due Process Death Prevails

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Sullivan County

Teddy Roosevelt In The Catskills

November 22, 2020 by John Conway Leave a Comment

Former president Teddy Roosevelt spoke from the first-floor balcony of the Liberty House on October 23, 1914On October 23rd, 1914, several thousand people heard former president Teddy Roosevelt address separate gatherings in Liberty and Monticello, in Sullivan County, in the Catskills.

Just two years removed from his near assassination while campaigning for president in Milwaukee, and a scant few months after his ill-fated trip down the River of Doubt which had left him severely weakened, Roosevelt was touring on behalf of the Progressive Party candidate for governor of New York, Frederick M. Davenport. [Read more…] about Teddy Roosevelt In The Catskills

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Political History, Sullivan County, Theodore Roosevelt, TR

Suffragists in Sullivan County Virtual Program

August 19, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Votes wagonThe Time and the Valleys Museum is set to host a virtual program by Sullivan County Historian (and periodic contributor to New York Almanack) John Conway entitled The Suffragists: Fight for the Vote in Sullivan County, on Sunday, August 23rd. [Read more…] about Suffragists in Sullivan County Virtual Program

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Political History, Suffrage Movement, Sullivan County, Time and the Valleys Museum, womens history

Story of New Netherland Virtual Talk

July 10, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

New Netherlands Early Street_InPixioThe Time and the Valleys Museum in the Catskills, has announced a virtual program The Story of New Netherland: Dutch Colony 1624 – 1664, set to be held on ZOOM on Sunday, July 12th, with historian and former teacher Thomas Riley of New Jersey. [Read more…] about Story of New Netherland Virtual Talk

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Dutch History, New Netherland, Sullivan County, Time and the Valleys Museum, Ulster County

Nathaniel Sackett: Godfather of American Intelligence

June 4, 2020 by John Conway 2 Comments

Sackett Letter from WashingtonOn May 23, 1789, Nathaniel Sackett sent a long, rambling letter to newly inaugurated president George Washington. The letter informed Washington that Congress had denied Sackett’s proposal that he be granted federal lands in order to create a new state bounded by the Ohio, Scioto, and Muskingum Rivers and Lake Erie. [Read more…] about Nathaniel Sackett: Godfather of American Intelligence

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: AmRev, Culper Spy Ring, Military History, Sullivan County

Monticello Steamship Company

May 17, 2020 by John Conway 2 Comments

Monticello Steamship DockOnline auction sites regularly offer a number of collectibles — postcards, brochures, tickets, even china — bearing the name and logo of the Monticello Steamship Company of San Francisco.

Most of these items offer little information about the company, and the average collector would have little reason to believe that one of the most well-known enterprises on the West Coast around the turn of the 20th Century had any connection at all to Sullivan County, NY.

But it did. [Read more…] about Monticello Steamship Company

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Maritime History, Steamboating, Sullivan County, Transportation, Transportation History

Elnathan Sears: Thirteen Months in Hell

May 12, 2020 by John Conway 4 Comments

HMS Jersey InteriorLate in the month of January in 1840, Elnathan Sears returned home to the town of Mamakating, then part of Ulster County, NY, after an exhausting trip to Washington, D.C.  There he had presented an impassioned argument to Congress in hopes of procuring the military pension he had earned as an officer in the Revolutionary War.

A few days later, on February 2, he was dead. [Read more…] about Elnathan Sears: Thirteen Months in Hell

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, Maritime History, Military History, Orange County, Sullivan County, Ulster County

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