Sullivan County, NY

Headnote
SULLIVAN COUNTY, situated on the southwesterly boundary of New York, with Delaware river on the southwest. Area, 919 square miles. Face of the country, broken and mountainous; soil, of middling quality. Seat of justice, Monticello. Pop. in 1810, 6,108; in 1820, 8,900; in 1830, 12,364; in 1840, 15,629; in 1850, 25,083. (Fanning's, 1853)
Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
New York

Sullivan County, New York (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
SULLIVAN COUNTY, situated on the southwesterly boundary of New York, with Delaware river on the southwest. Area, 919 square miles. Face of the country, broken and mountainous; soil, of middling quality. Seat of justice, Monticello. Pop. in 1810, 6,108; in 1820, 8,900; in 1830, 12,364; in 1840, 15,629; in 1850, 25,083.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 347.
Date Type
In Sullivan County, New York, derailment of the Erie Railroad's night express kills a railwayman Crime/Disasters
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