| New York (Sullivan County), Barryville — Brant’s Camp |
| | The Mohawk leader of raid on Minisink (Port Jervis) camped here July 21, 1779. Pursuing Militia camped 3 miles up this same brook. — Map (db m20493) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Bethel — Woodstock Music and Arts Fair |
| | This is the original site of the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair held on Aug 15, 16, 17, 1969.
Peace and Music Wayne C. Saward sculptor
On Stage Performers. Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie; Joan Baez; Joe Cocker; Ravi Shankar; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; Johnny Winter; Creedence Clearwater; Mountain; Santana; John Sebastian; The Who; Canned Heat; Grateful Dead; Paul Butterfield Blues’ Band; Sly & the Family Stone; Jefferson Airplane; The Band; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Blood Sweat . . . — Map (db m18323) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — Hospital Rock — Revolutionary War Heritage Trail |
| | Hospital Rock is the most historically significant place on the battleground. Once Brant’s men broke the Americans’ defensive square late in the afternoon, it was in the shadow of this rock that Lt. Col. Benjamin Tusten, a physician from Goshen, and seventeen wounded militiamen under his care, were trapped and killed by Brant’s Iroquois Native Americans and Tories. After the battle, Brant recrossed the Delaware River and proceeded to Oquaga. The militiamen who escaped the fate of Tusten made . . . — Map (db m20513) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes — Revolutionary War Heritage Trail |
| | Although two attempts to recover the bodies of the fallen at Minisink Ford are recorded as having taken place in the weeks following the battle, it was not until 1822, forty-five years after the event, that the remains still lying here were gathered up and prepared for burial. They were interred beneath a small obelisk in Goshen, N.Y. The Minisink Battle Monument located here was erected on the site of the militia’s “last stand” and dedicated in 1879, the centennial of the battle. — Map (db m20507) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — Indian Rock |
| | Legend has it that the Indians and Tories of Joseph Brant set this stone to honor their dead and wounded who fell before the field of fire from the nearby plateau. — Map (db m20515) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — Last Stand On The Rocky Hill — Revolutionary War Heritage Trail |
| | After the initial contact at the river, Col. Hathorn’s remaining force, about forty men, conducted a fighting retreat until they reached high ground. Here they took up a position about two acres in size. Sentinel Rock, where you are now, marked the approximate southwest corner of the militia “square.” The battlefield monument marks the southeastern part of the American defensive square. Capt. Brant’s men encircled them at a distance of 100 yards or less. Tradition has long held . . . — Map (db m20511) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — Minisink Battle Monument |
| | Erected July 22d, 1879 Dedicated to the memory of the Patriots of the Minisink Region who died here July 22, 1779 in the defence of American Liberty <<<<< * * * >>>>> Erected by the Historical Societies of the Minisink Country and of the State of New York on the sesquicentennial of the battle 1929 Minisink Battle July 22d, 1779 — Map (db m20509) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — Minisink Battleground Park |
| | In July 1779, after raiding the settlement of Minisink, Loyalists and Native Americans under Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant ambushed and pursued Orange County and New Jersey militia. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail — Map (db m20502) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Highland — The Battle at Minisink — Revolutionary War Heritage Trail |
| | On July 20, 1779, a party of eighty seven Tories and Iroquois Native Americans under the command of Capt. Joseph Brant raided the frontier settlement of Minisink (present day Port Jervis). The raid destroyed homes, farms and mills and was designed to bring fear to the inhabitants. Later that day, regional militia units were called out. Two days later, Brant and his forces met the pursuing force of New Jersey and New York militia – numbering three units with about one hundred twenty men . . . — Map (db m20505) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Lumberland — D. and H. Canal |
| | Dry dock and basin 1828 – 1898 — Map (db m20556) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Battle of Minisink |
| | One of the deadliest in frontier warefare, between Militia and Brant’s Tories and Mohawks, on this hill July 22, 1779. — Map (db m20496) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Battle of Minisink |
| | On this hill, July 22, 1779, N. Y. and N. J. Militia were decimated by Mohawks and Tory raiders of Minisink, (Port Jervis) under Brant. — Map (db m20497) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Battle of Minisink |
| | Entrance to Battlefield where July 22, 1779, N. Y. and N. J. Militia attacked Mohawk and Tory raiders of Minisink (Port Jervis). — Map (db m20500) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Bridge |
| | Built by John A. Roebling, builder of Brooklyn Bridge, to support D. & H. Canal aqueduct by which boats crossed Delaware, 1848 – 98 — Map (db m20567) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Delaware & Hudson Canal — Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River |
| | The Delaware & Hudson Canal, one of the nation’s first large-scale private enterprises, transported millions of tons of anthracite (hard coal) from northeastern Pennsylvania to markets in New York. Gravity railroads took the coal over Moosic Mountain from Carbondale to Honesdale, and later from Pittston to Hawley. The 108-mile canal carried the coal through 108 locks along and across the Lackawaxen, Delaware, and Neversink rivers and Rondout Creek to the Hudson River. Competition from railroads . . . — Map (db m20594) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Life Along the Canal — Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River |
| | The building and operation of the 108-mile Delaware & Hudson Canal provided a multitude of jobs not only for Dutch and English settlers but for Irish and German immigrants. The area hummed with activity. Laborers dug the canal with picks and shovels, blasted rock with black powder, and cut and laid stone for locks and walls. Others tended locks, kept canal records, and cared for mules. Boatyards, blacksmith shops, gristmills, taverns, inns, and all kinds of stores soon appeared along the canal. — Map (db m20590) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Roebling’s Cable — Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River |
| | John A. Roebling’s legacy is based on his use of suspension cables to hold up bridges and aqueducts. He devised the techniques of air spinning, which is still used today to build much larger spans. This former aqueduct is the nation’s oldest existing wire cable suspension structure and the earliest of Roebling’s works still standing. Though much of the aqueduct has been reconstructed, the cables and almost all the ironwork in the suspension system are original. Air Spinning – making the . . . — Map (db m20597) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink — Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct — Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River |
| | From canal boats to canoes, the past flows into the present here at the Delaware Aqueduct. Walk across the aqueduct’s reconstructed towpath where mules once pulled Delaware & Hudson Canal boats back to Pennsylvania for another load of coal. Enjoy views of the river valley today as you imagine the transformation of this river crossing from low-water ford to rope ferry to aqueduct, and finally to road bridge. — Map (db m20596) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink Ford — Battle of Minisink |
| | Col. Joseph Brant led 40 Mohawks and Tories up this ravine and ambushed N. Y. and N. J. Militia lying for him on hill to the west. — Map (db m20495) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Minisink Ford — Brant’s Crossing |
| | After Battle of Minisink, Brant’s raiders with their plunder forded river here to camp at the mouth of the Lackawaxen Creek opposite. — Map (db m20494) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Camp Holley |
| | In memory of the 143rd Regiment Infantry, Sullivan County's own, 1004 strong. — Map (db m25664) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Methodist Church — Monticello, N Y |
| | Organized in Districts 1804; present church built 1844. — Map (db m25658) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Monticello Depot |
| | Was the Catskill Mtn. destination for sportsmen and vacationers from 1896 until the O&W Ry. ceased operation on March 29, 1957. — Map (db m25865) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Presbyterian Church — First Church in Monticello |
| | Established 1810. Lot gift by the Jones brothers. — Map (db m25654) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Site of First House in Monticello |
| | Built by John P. Jones, founder of the Village, December 1804. — Map (db m25659) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — Site of Toll House — Monticello-Jeffersonville Turnpike — 1875 |
| | Site of Toll House, Monticello-Jeffersonville Turnpike, 1875. — Map (db m25653) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Monticello — St John's Episcopal Church |
| | Monticello, N.Y.
Parish organized 1816
Present Church built 1880
180th Anniversay 1816-1996 — Map (db m24620) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Narrowsburg — Fort Delaware |
| | Model of the circa 1755 Cushetunk settlement located near Milanville Pa. Opened in 1957. Designed by James W. Burnank. — Map (db m23639) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Narrowsburg — Fort Delaware — 1755 1785 |
| | This fort represents the buck-skinned variety of American frontier fortifications. It tells the story of the Delaware Company a group of Connecticut pioneers who established their settlement in the face of every conceivable hardship. This authentic reproduction portrays a stockaded settlement showing the life on the American frontier as it was lived by our forefathers 200 years ago. — Map (db m23734) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Narrowsburg — Fort Delaware / Narrowsburg’s History — Upper Delaware Scenic Byway |
| | < Fort Delaware Side: >
The present day Fort, a replica of the frontier “lower fort” of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, was originally located six miles up river near Milanville, Pennsylvania. Another fort was situated further up river in the Cushetunk settlement. Fort Delaware is “dedicated to the Connecticut Yankees, who settled in the Delaware Valley.” The first settlers, farmers of English descent who came primarily from eastern Connecticut, . . . — Map (db m23934) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Narrowsburg — Fort Delaware Museum |
| | The reconstructed stockade, blockhouses, log cabins, blacksmith shop, shed, armory, and herb garden are representative of forts constructed by Connecticut settlers in the 1750’s. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail — Map (db m23635) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Roscoe — “They Came to the Mountains by Rail” |
| | On July 9, 1873, a few miles to the west of here, was driven the “Golden Spike” completing the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad—later the New York, Ontario & Western (O & W). This rail link opened up the interior of Sullivan County to millions in the New York Metropolitan area, eager to vacation amidst its natural beauty. Thus, tourism became a new and vital local industry, and remains so one century later.
The Route 17 Quickway here was built on the roadbed of the O & W. — Map (db m22528) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Roscoe — The Catskill Mountains — Historic New York |
| | The Catskill Mountains tower above the Hudson River as it winds its way past one of the most popular resort areas in the United States. These time-worn mountains were called Kaatskill (Cat Creek) by Dutchmen of the seventeenth century, probably because of the wildcats that once roamed the area.
This group of gently sloping peaks, only two of which exceed 4,000 feet, have contributed to the pleasure, economy, and culture of generations of New Yorkers. During the nineteenth century, Catskill . . . — Map (db m22427) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Thompsonville — Town of Thompson |
| | Named for Judge William A. Thompson, first Judge of Sullivan County, appointed 1803. — Map (db m25867) |
| New York (Sullivan County), Tusten — Tusten |
| | Named for Lt. Col. Benjamin Tusten of Goshen militia, surgeon who gave his life to attend the wounded at the Battle of Minisink — Map (db m23686) |
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