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16 unusual facts about Sullivan County


Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area

The Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area consists of over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of wetlands and uplands in Orange County and Sullivan County in New York State, U.S.

Joshua Richmond

Richmond resides in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, and attended Troy State University.

Lake DeVenoge

Lake DeVenoge is a private community located in the town of Highland in Sullivan County, NY.

Margolis Brown Adaptors Company

The Margolis Brown Adaptors Company (MBAC) is an internationally touring physical theatre company that also houses the Margolis Method Training Center now located in Highland, New York.

MBAC established an international training center in Sullivan County, New York in 2005 and divide their time between New York and Minneapolis.

New York State Route 17B

New York State Route 17B (NY 17B) is a state highway located entirely within Sullivan County, New York, in the United States.

New York State Route 42

The route intersects with Old Plank Road, where it bends northward once again, becoming a two-lane rural road once again through fields before crossing the county line into Sullivan County.

New York State Route 55

Crossing past the former terminus of County Route 11A (CR 11A; named River Road), NY 55 proceeds north out of Barryville through the town of Highland, maintained by Sullivan County as CR 11.

New York State Route 55A

New York State Route 55A (NY 55A) is a state highway located in Sullivan and Ulster counties.

After a dip to the southeast, NY 55A crosses the county line out of Sullivan County and into Ulster County.

Plunketts Creek

Hillsgrove Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, was known as "Plunketts Creek Township" from its creation in 1847 to 1856

Rondout Reservoir

It is located 75 miles (120 km) northwest of the city in the Catskill Mountains, near the southern end of Catskill Park, split between the towns of Wawarsing in Ulster County and Neversink in Sullivan County.

Russ Hodge

In August 2003, both Hodge and his mother were honoured with the Sullivan County Historical Society "History Maker" award.

Sullivan County, Missouri

Bud Houser - Winner of multiple Olympic medals in track & field events.

By the same act, it was renamed Sullivan County in honor of John Sullivan, a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Ticklish Rock

located in Shrewsbury Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.


Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue

Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue is located on Glen Wild Road, Sullivan County Route 58, in the unincorporated community of Glen Wild, New York, United States.

Bernard Downing

Bernard Downing (August 14, 1869 in New York City – May 25, 1931 in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Haldimand S. Putnam

He was the son of John L. Putnam, who was both a farmer and Judge of Probate for Sullivan County.

John C. Rice

John C. Rice (ca. 1858, Sullivan County, New York – June 5, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American born Broadway stage actor who is credited with performing the first onscreen kiss with May Irwin in 1896 for the Thomas Edison film company film The Kiss.

Lemuel Jenkins

Jenkins was born in Bloomingburgh, then Ulster County, now Sullivan County, New York, the posthumous son of Lemuel Jenkins (1740–1789), originally of Edgartown, Massachusetts, and his third wife Mary (Dunham) Jenkins (1759–1809).

Marion K. Sanders

In 1952, she ran a grassroots campaign as a Democrat-Liberal for the U.S. Congress in what was then the 28th Congressional District of New York, at the time a heavily Republican District encompassing Delaware County, Orange County, Rockland County, and Sullivan County.

New York State Route 32

Officials cited several factors: the heavy traffic on Route 17 that weekend for both the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival in Sullivan County and the observances of the anniversary of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum's death in Kiryas Joel, a few miles to the west.

Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge

The Skinners Falls – Milanville Bridge is a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Milanville, Pennsylvania and Skinners Falls, New York in Wayne County, Pennsylvania and Sullivan County, New York.

Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe

Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe, also known as Yeshiva of South Fallsburg, is a private rabbinical college located in a rural setting in South Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York.