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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