Sullivan County: A Bicentennial History in Images

by John Conway

Book Overview

First inhabited by the Lenape Indians and settled by European colonists in the seventeenth century, New York's Sullivan County has experienced several ages of prosperity and growth over the last two hundred years. Locals conceived of timber rafting in the eighteenth century to support the shipbuilding industry, followed by a prosperous tanning boom in the nineteenth century that supplied leather to the Union army. Finally, two periods of tourism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596296461
• ISBN13: 9781596296466
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"