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The Minisink Patent, granted in 1704, was a somewhat smaller area, but still far larger than the present town, which was given its present boundaries in 1800. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the New York - New Jersey border was previously seven or eight miles north of its present location: Minisink was once in New Jersey.
The fort is named for Lt. Martinus Decker, [1] great grandson of Jan Gerritsen Decker, the first Decker to live in the Minisink Valley. [ 2 ] On July 19, 1779, during the Revolutionary War , when the settlement was known as "Peenpack", the fort was burned during a raid by pro-British Native American leader Joseph Brant .
Fog surrounds cliffs looming over the Delaware River whose valley is the core of the historic Minisink region, July 2007. The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania (Pike and Monroe counties) and New York (Orange and Sullivan counties).
Thomas "Maas" Swartwout (c. 1660 – c. 1723) was one of the earliest settlers of the Neversink and Delaware River Valley, early landowner in colonial America, one of seven holders of the Wagheckemeck (Minisink Region) Peenpack land patent then in Ulster County October 14, 1697 and one of seven founders with Pierre Guimard, Jacques Caudebec, Anthony & Bernardus Swartwout, David Jamison and Jan ...
In 1800, the Town of Minisink was given its present boundaries, thirty miles southwest of Minisink Ford. During the American Revolution in 1779, Minisink Ford was the site of the Battle of Minisink , in which 40–50 settlers were killed in an engagement with a band of Iroquois and Loyalists under Mohawk chief and Colonel Joseph Brant .
Congratulations to the student-athletes of Minisink Valley High School who qualified for scholar-athlete status for the 2023-24 school year
New York-style pizza is coming to Columbia with Endwell Taverna, a venture from chef Ted Cianciosi and Ozark Mountain Biscuit Company's Bryan Maness.
A tourist has toppled a 113-year-old tramway tower in Death Valley, sparking fury on social media.. The National Parks Service said on Tuesday that the historic tower in the Saline Valley area in ...