History, Natural History & the Arts
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The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced Mysterious Stone Sites in the Hudson Valley, a virtual presentation set for Sunday, January 24th at 2 pm. [Read more…] about Mysterious Stone Sites in the Hudson Valley
The Time and the Valleys Museum has released an informative self driving tour around the four reservoirs of the Delaware Water Supply System. [Read more…] about A New Delaware Water System History Driving Tour
The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced Catskill Stream Geology Sunday, an online virtual program set for October 4th. [Read more…] about Catskills Stream Geology Virtual Presentation Oct 4th
The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced a Drive Through Chicken Barbeque, set for Saturday, September 26th, from 4 to 6:30 pm, in the Museum parking lot. [Read more…] about Support A Catskills Museum By Eating Chicken
The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced a virtual program, Tri-Valley Area One Room Schools, set for Sunday, September 13th at 2 pm. [Read more…] about Tri-Valley Area One Room Schools Programs
The 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
The 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
The Time and the Valleys Museum has announced a virtual program: The Great Covered Bridges of the Mid-Hudson Region, with Ron Knapp, co-author of American Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings – Nostalgic Icons, set for Sunday, June 7, at 2 pm. [Read more…] about Mid-Hudson Covered Bridges Virtual Program
The 6 ½-mile-long Rondout Reservoir was built in from the late 1930s to early 1950s, to collect clean Catskills drinking water as part of New York City‘s supply network.
Three towns, Eureka, Montela and Lackawack, were removed (including all the buildings, trees and vegetation and cemeteries) and the residents displaced for the building of the reservoir.
[Read more…] about Rondout Reservoir’s Lost Towns, Flooded For NYC Water
In the 1930s and 40s, New York City came to the Catskills and took land they needed to build reservoirs for their expanding water supply system. Thousands of people’s lives changed forever, as they were forced to move away from family and friends and the homes they loved. [Read more…] about 1930s Historic Catskill Farm Expansion Planned