The
Sullivan County Museum
Home of the
Sullivan County Historical Society
Located on Main Street in Hurleyville, NY,
the museum building was formerly the Hurleyville School.
The original structure was built in 1912.
The Gymnasium was added to the back of the building in 1929-30
and the elevator was added to the front of the building in 1990-91.
The last class graduated from the Hurleyville High School in 1945
when county schools were centralized, eliminating the need for small community schools.
In 1971 the building was acquired for use as a county museum.
The Sullivan County Museum houses
The Sullivan County Historical Society
The Catskill Art Society
The Frederick A. Cook Society
The Dramatic Workshop
The Judge Lawrence Cook Room
The displays, library, archives and historical rooms are designed, constructed, decorated and maintained
by volunteer members of the Sullivan County Historical Society.
Museum Hours are:
Tues.- Sat. ----- 10 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday -------- 1 PM to 4:30 PM
Some Exhibits and Events at the Museum:
On Sunday, June 4 the Sullivan County Museum hosted a special exhibit on the history of the Ten Mile River Scout Camps (TMR), the largest council-owned Boy Scout Camp in the United States. In 1927, a group of citizens led by Franklin D Roosevelt raised $1 million to purchase and develop 9,010 acres of woodlands in Sullivan County near Narrowsburg, NY as a summer camp for the New York City Boy Scouts. Over the past 79 years, more than 1 million Scouts have camped at TMR.
The exhibit covers the entire history of the Ten Mile River Scout Camps, and includes photos, movies, documents and camp memorabilia. There will even be coins and artifacts from the lumbering industry that took place on the property during the 1800s
John Dowd, TMR Trustee, June Koester, SCHS Exhibit Curator, Bernie Susman, TMR Curator, David Malatzky, TMR Associate Curator
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This Scout Exhibit will be on display in the Museum Auditorium until June 22
Opened on Sunday, May 14, 2:00 p.m.
Apron Exhibit
Come see history unfold in the worn cloth of an apron.
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June Koester, Curator
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On Monday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. Author/Historian Marc B. Fried told the fascinating story about the Minisink Patent.
Before there was a Sullivan County, before settlers came to build their log cabins, the region was subject to bitter litigation over the eastern boundaries of the Minisink Patent - a struggle that lasted for decades.
Historic Preservation for the 21st Century
April 10, 2006
Loomis Sanitarium Swan Lake Hotel Bloomingburg Railroad Station
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Nursing Exhibit Opening
March 19, 2006
1940's Nurse and Wheelchair Rosemary Wilmarth and June Koester, Curator of the Exhibit
Rosemary Wilmarth, Vice-President of Patient Care, CRMC Opening Crowd
Stephen Crane Exhibit Turn of the century ( 1899/1900) SCHS Timeline Room
clothing display
Acid Factory Diorama General Store
Located in the SCHS Timeline Room The way it was long before supermarkets
What a Post Office looked like in the past.
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