Historical Map, Sullivan County
Published by L. E. Wilt, Towanda, PA, 1944
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Pennsylvania Between 1790-1794
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Sullivan County Message Board --Ask Questions and Post Information Sullivan County Mailing Lists DAR Message Board Search USGENWEB Search The Sullivan County, PA Genealogy Website Searches Sullivan County only. (Note: For advanced search, consult Free Find's (Search tips) The Colley Township House Turrell Street, Lopez, Colley Township, PA 1990 Courtesy of David R. Maher Note: In 2009, the Colley Township House was formally recorded as a Historic Resource of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The building takes us back to the era of James McFarlane and the vast tanning industry in Sullivan County at the end of the 19th century. You can see a more recent photo at the head of the Streby History of Colley. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View The Sonestown Covered Bridge Sonestown, PA Built Over Muncy Creek 1850 Courtesy of Sullivan Review, March 2, 2006 Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Dale and Carol (Hoose) Brotzman Beaver Meadows, PA December 2010 Note: Carol is a Family Historian and Major Contributor to our Web Site. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View A Mystery Gathering Likely Held at Eagles Mere, PA About 1895 Note: You can read all about this mysterious photograph and the collective efforts of our contributors to solve it at Gathering. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Dushore in Winter View Southeast from the Snyder Homestead Winter of 1942-43 Note: You can learn more about the Snyder family at Snyder and Harrington. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Frank Snyder Collection Phillip Peter Sweeney Songwriter and Poet December 2013 with Alexis Cacyuk You can listen to the music and poetry of Phil Sweeney at his Home Page. The Sweeney Family History can be accessed at The Sweeneys of Ringer Hill Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Photo Source: Phil Sweeney Sonestown Grade Shool 1928 Third Row, Fifth from Right is Walter Richard King Others Unidentifed at this Time Note: You can find attendance lists and more photos on the Davidson Attendees Page Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Connie (King) McMichael, daughter of Walter Richard King Dutch Mountain 2015 Near Border of Wyoming and Sullivan Couunties Original Junk Family Property Now Owned by the Hoffman Family Note: You can learn more about the families that settled here at Kronmiller's History of Bellasylva. The Junk family is interred at the Junk Cemetery. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Mary Ellen Hoffman Eagles Mere Lake Park 1913 Entrance Way Card Issued by The Forest Inn and Postmarked October 1916 Note: You can learn more about The Forest Inn at Endless Mountains. This history discusses several of the hotels built around the lake. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Photo by Scott W. Tilden Original Auctioned on eBay in January 2017 A Mystery Graduation Army Corps of Engineers Fort Humphreys VA 1932 Found in Attic of Genevieve Marshall Note: You can learn more about this mystery at Engineers Photo Courtesy of Roger Hatch NEW!! Cole's Hardware Store Proprietor Samuel Cole Water Street, Dushore, PA About 1905 Courtesy of John C. Lieberman Source: Kaier Collection, Mahanoy City, PA Editor's Note: The building to the right was the fire station, which is now the offices of the Sullivan Review. In this old photo, the name "J. E. Collins" is posted on the lintel of the fire station. Collins was a prominent businessman and perhaps the fire station was named for him, or the sign is some sort of advertisement. Cole's Hardware is now called the Tubach Building. We thank the Sullivan County Historical Society and Museum for this information. February 2010. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View The Griffiths Elizabeth (Kinsley) and Joseph Griffiths With Daughter Catherine ("Katie") Lopez, PA 1914 Courtesy of Sue (McGuire) Schultz Source: Betty McGuire Collection Editor's Note: Sue is the great granddaughter of John Kinsley and Margaret McGraw, and grand daughter of Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Kinsley. Lizzie married Joseph Griffiths, a mine foreman from Scranton. Their children were Catherine ("Katie"), John Joseph, Mary Marguerite and Elizabeth ("Betty"), Sue's mother. The child in the photo is Sue's aunt. The Griffiths lived in Lopez during the coal mining era of the early twentieth century. You can learn more about the Irish Kinsley line at Settlers XXVI: The Irish Settlement History. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Reaumur Thermometer The thermometer was not invented until a mere 250 years ago. The first usable thermometers were developed by a German,Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, in 1714; a Frenchman, Ren� Antoine Ferchault de R�aumur, in 1731; and a Swede, Anders Celsius, in 1742. This device allowed beer brewers to control mash temperatures without having to mix fixed volumes of grain and water at either well water temperature or at a boil. As a consequence of their European origins, the Kaier family made the Reaumur thermometer a critical technology in the brewing business they established in northeastern Pennsylvania, including Sullivan County, beginning late in the nineteenth century. You can learn more at the Kaier's Brewery page. Note: Image courtesy of John C. Lieberman. Dushore "Trolleys" 1907 East Main Street Railroad Trestle in Background Courtesy of Scott Tilden Source: Portion of an Old C. W. Williams Postcard Original auctioned on eBay in July 2011 Editor's Note: The Back Side of the postcard indicates the recipient was Madeline Miller in Scranton. The sender penned a note on the front asking her to "see our trolleys hitched to a post"--referring to the horses in the photo. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View National Air Mail Day May 15, 1938 Sullivan County, PA Courtesy of Scott Tilden Source: An Envelope Auctioned on eBay in May 2013 Editor's Note: National air mail service commenced on this date in 1918 and by 1921 had come to Pennsylvania. The route from Long Island to Bellefonte and then points west crossed into Pennsylvania at Lehighton, then ran over Mauch Chunk and Sunbury. The original of this letter was addressed from Bernetta Deegan to Leonard Heverly in New York State, postmarked from Dushore. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Susan Jane (Keeler) Masteller 1831-1926 Wife of Thomas Masteller (1827-1887) Daughter of John Keeler, Jr. and Sarah Bartleson Courtesy of Milly Gowdy Who Owns the Original Charcoal Pencil Drawing Editor's Note: The marriage of these two individuals linked one of the foremost families in southeastern Sullivan County, the Keelers, to a prominent family with origins in Columbia County, the Mastellers. Thomas and Susan are buried at Cherry Grove Cemetery in Nordmont. Many of the Masteller family are buried at St. Gabriel's Cemetery in Sugarloaf Township, PA. You can read about the Keeler and Mosteller connections at Helen Smith Gammon and the Peterman Heritage. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Red Cross Kitchen Stove Two Sided-AdvertisementPage Early Twentieth Century Double Heater Stove Sold by D. E. Carroll Hardware Dushore, PA Stove photos Courtesy of Gail James Undated photo of Hotel Carroll linked below is courtesy of the Sullivan County Historical Society. Editor's Note: Dennis E. Carroll (1845-1921) operated the Hotel Carroll at the corner of Main and Center Streets in Dushore in the 1890s and into the 20th century. In the winter offseason, he ran this hardware store out of the hotel. Dennis is shown in the 1900 Federal Census for Dushore (pages 8-9) with his wife Elizabeth and several children. The stove shown here was manufactured, as shown by the image on the reverse side, by the Cooperative Foundry Company of Rochester, NY. This firm sold a line of stoves and other hardware from 1857 until 1930. The stove brand name comes from the red Gothic cross that appeared on advertising for this line of stoves. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Meet Bob Sweeney Sullivan County Historian Photo by Lynn Franklin Reverend Xavier Kaier As A Young Priest About 1870 While Visiting Family Mahanoy City, PA Eventually, Father Kaier Became the Most Prominent Catholic Cleric in the History of Sullivan County, serving 58 years from 1863-1921 as Pastor of St. Basil's Church in Dushore. You can learn more at The Kaiers Come to Pennsylvania. Photo Courtesy of John Curtin Lieberman Click on photo for full size view. Mary R. Mulnix (1879-1944) Daughter of John and Hester Mulnix of Elkland Wife of John Louis Rosbach Both interred at Estella Cemetery. Learn more at Vickie Rosbach's Tribute. Photo Courtesy of Vickie Rosbach, Granddaughter Click on photo for full size view. Emily Matilda Yonkin (1857-1943) Daughter of Peter and Catherine (Suber) Yonkin Birth and Baptism Certificate Learn more about this family at The Suber Family. Photo Courtesy of Craig Stevens Original Donated to the Sullivan County Historical Society Click on image for expanded photo. Jacob Myers (1804-1875) Father of Ellen (Myers) Crawford Grandfather of Preston Lafayette Crawford Learn more about this family at The Crawford Descendants. Photo Courtesy of Carol Brotzman Source: The Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler Collection Note: Ellen was a daughter of Preston L. Crawford. Levi Andrew Crawford (1887-1971) Son of Preston and Mary (Thrasher) Crawford In Patriotic Order of the Sons of America Uniform Washington Chapter, Dushore PA 1903 Learn more about this family at The Crawford Descendants. Photo Courtesy of Carol Brotzman Source: The Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler Collection. There is a Group Photo of the Order shown on The Descendants of Johannes Jakob Messershmidt. Click on image above for expanded photo. Baby Gown Made by Jane Sadler Rogers For Her Daughter Zilpha Ann in 1829 Zilpha later married John R. Fleming The dress was passed down in the Fleming family to Zilpha's great granddaughter, Cheryl Franklin Who Contributed the Dress in 2014 to the Sullivan County Historical Society. See more photos and learn more about this family at The Warren and Rogers Family Photo Collection and The Scrapbook of Aunt Eliza Rogers. Photo Courtesy of Cheryl Franklin Click on image above for expanded photo. The Phillips Family North Mountain Area 1909 Courtesy of Rick Swartz Note: You can learn more about the Phillips Family and the identifications of the participants in this old photo at Descendants of Robert Pierce Phillips. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Satirical Postcard 1918 Mailed to Lloyd W. Fahler by a Nephew Courtesy of John C. Lieberman Note: You can learn more about the Kaier, Lieberman and Fahler Family at The Kaiers Come to Pennsylvania. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Hiram and Martha Jane (Mase) White Eldredsville Before 1895 Courtesy of Sullivan County Historical Society Note: Their children married into the Shadduck and Frawley families of Sullivan County. Read more about the Whites at The Frawley Collection. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Christian Baumunk (1843-1924) Son of Michael and Maragret (Storms) Baumunk Born in Sullivan County, PA Moved to Indiana as a Young Man Courtesy of Beth Jenkins Roberts His Great Great Granddaughter Note: Read more about the Baumunks and see photos in the Baumunk Day History and Descendants of Christian Baumunk Sidebar at Faces and Families, Group Seven. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. The Hillsgrove Band About 1900 Hillsgrove, PA Courtesy of Paul Galough Whose Relatives Played in the Band Note: Read more about the band at the Hillsgrove Souvenir Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. The Old Stone House Nordmont PA Built for John Boston Structure Stood from 1850-2000 Courtesy of Nancy Spencer Note: Read more about the Boston family at The History of Cherry Grove Chapel Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Sarah "Sadie" and Patrick John Boland Brother and Sister Mildred PA 1952 At Patrick's Home in the Year He Died He is barely visible in shadows to right of porch. Courtesy of Denise Weber The photo was fouund in the Hampson family collection passed down to Denise. Neither Boland was ever married. Patrick can be found in the 1900 Federal Census for Cherry Township with his widowed mother Mary and other family members. Sadie was a servant by then in the home of Benjamin Hall in Towanda, PA. Children of John and Mary Boland, Patrick lived from 1873-1952, while Sadie lived from 1877-1958. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Richard Leroy "Dick" Holcombe 1915-2014 Author of Dick's Legends Obituary Photo Courtesy of P. Dean Homer FUneral Home Sullivan County Settlers Menu Sweeneys of Ringer Hill Ghosts of Sullivan County Patrick Devanney John Sims Green James & Catherine Farrell Postcards from Lopez Edward Eldred & the Genessee Road George McDonald & Ethel Travis Andrew McDonald & Mary Hayden Cecilia McDonald & the Laughlins First Settlers of Dushore The Suber Family in Local History Cavanaughs of Irish Ridge Lewis and Huckell Families of Hillsgrove Patrick McDonald & Martha Daly George Whitefield Potter Frank Farrell Sones, Simmons & Stevenson Joseph & Ursula Baumgartner The Sick Families of Cherry Mills William Sick & Catherine Kelly Joseph Fulmer and Descendants Julius & Mary Barth Long Joseph Hoagland: Dutch Pioneer The Little Family: An American Odyssey John Kinsley's Irish Settlement: 1830-1986 The Thrasher Heritage Henry Myers and the Myers Legacy Henry Yonkin and Barbara Hartzig Pealer and Related Families Descendants of Jacob Hoffa Descendants of Jacob Kester and Katherine Knubaharin Family of Johannes Jakob Messerschmidt The Frawley Collection The Italian Heritage of Bernice and Mildred The Dohm Tradition Heritage of John Bahr Descendants of William Wilson Potter The Sherman Family The Kohensparger Clan The Descendants of John T. 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