MonticelloArcadia Publishing, 1 de nov. de 2010 - 128 páginas Latin for heavenly mountain, Monticellos founders supported Thomas Jeffersons populist ideals, naming their village for his Virginia home. Center of the Town of Thompson and seat of Sullivan County since 1809, Monticello was founded in 1804 and incorporated in 1830 by John and Samuel Jones. Tanning, lumbering, farming, and manufacturing gave way to tourism. The railroad came in 1871. A fire in 1909 decimated the downtown, but automobiles and an artery nicknamed the Quickway connected New York City to the mountains and made Monticello a recreation center. The years 1920 to 1930 saw a population increase of 48 percent. Sidewalks brimmed with shoppers as Broadway, lined with stately and beautiful shade trees, clattered with traffic at all hours. Slightly over an hour from Manhattan, Monticello had two identities: a community built and sustained by workers, residents, and businesses and a busy borscht belt vacation center of boardinghouses, hotels, bungalows, and recreation. |
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Two TRANSPORTATION | |
Three BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY | |
Four CELEBRATIONS AND PUBLIC EVENTS | |
Six GOVERNMENT AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES | |
Seven COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS CHURCHES | |
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Bank Street board of trustees boardinghouse built burned Capt Church of Monticello Cochecton County Historical Society Courtesy of Daniel Courtesy of Monticello Courtesy of Richard Courtesy of Sullivan Courtesy of Susan Courtesy of William courthouse Daniel K East Broadway Etten Oil Company Forestburgh Frank Fred front George George Rockwell Guimond Hammond and Cooke’s Jennie John Conway Jones Kenneth Landfield Avenue later left to right located Main Street Masonic building Monticello and Port Monticello Fire Department Monticello Lodge Monticello Presbyterian Monticello Raceway Muller National Union Bank Old Monticello Osborn owner Palatine Hotel parade Park photograph was taken Pleasant Street Port Jervis post office presentday president Republican Watchman Richard Benjamin Richard Benjamin Sr Saint John Street Scriber second row stands Sullivan County Courthouse Sullivan County Historical Susan Benton Schock Thompson photograph Thompson Ridge town of Thompson Turnpike unidentified village board village manager Village of Monticello village’s wagon William Horton York