SULLIVAN COUNTY 

 Sullivan County is located in the southeastern part of the state, 

 the Delaware River forming its western boundary and separating 

 it from Pennsylvania. The total area is 641,280 acres. From 

 north to south i-t extends approximately 40 miles, and from oast 

 to west 30 miles. The population is shown in the following table: 



Population - by Towns 



(Census of 10 lo) 



.Bethel 2 . 308 Lumberland 806 



Callicooo 2,0GG Mamakating 3,104 



Coehecton 1.141 Xeversink 1,861 



Delaware 1,915 Rockland 3,S03 



Fallsburgh 5,760 Thompson " 4, 942 



Porestburgh 429 Tusten 901 



Fremont 1,771 ■ 



Highland 1,043 Total 38,189 



Liberty 6,339 = 



* Montieello, in the town of Thompson, is the county seat. 

 HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



This coumy was erected from Ulster, March 27, 1809, and 

 named in honor of General John Sullivan. The aborigines of the 

 county were principally Esopus Indians, who were of the Wolf 

 tribe of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware nation. The early settlers 

 found a road extending southwest from Esopus on the Hudson 

 along the valley north of the Shawangunk Mountains. It was 

 known as the " mine road," and according to tradition was built 

 by a company of miners from Holland before the English eon- 

 quest of 16'64. Two mines are said to have been wrought — one 

 where the mountain approaches the Delaware and the other north 

 of the mountain about half way between the Delaware River and 

 Esopus Creek. With the exception of these traditions the first 

 location of -a permanent white inhabitant is said to have been 

 made at about 17<>0 by Don Manuel Gonzales, a Spaniard, who, 

 having married into a Dutch family, settled in .Mamakating Hol- 

 low, where he erected ;i house ;ind raised grain. He opened a 

 trade with rh'' Indian-, and other settlers soon followed his 

 example. 



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