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    HOURS

    Summer Hours (May-Sept.)

    Monday-Thursday: 9:00AM-5:00PM

     

    Winter Hours (Oct.-April)

    Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 9:00AM-5:00PM

    Wednesday: 12:00PM-5:00PM

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    *Year Round* -- 2nd Saturday of each month

    10AM - 2PM

     **COVID-19 UPDATE**

    NEW HOURS

     

    Monday - Thursday

    9AM-4PM

     

     

    *Starting July 1st 2020 the Museum will be open by appointment during the above hours*

    OUR  HOURS

    Summer Hours (May-Sept.)

    Monday-Thursday: 9:00AM-5:00PM

     

    Winter Hours (Oct.-April)

    Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 9:00AM-5:00PM

    Wednesday: 12:00PM-5:00PM

     

    *All Year: 2nd Saturday of each month

    10:00AM-2:00PM

     

    **COVID-19 UPDATE**

    NEW HOURS

     

    Monday - Thursday

    9AM - 4PM

     

    *Starting July 1st the Museum will be open by appointment during the above hours*

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    ADDRESS

    18 Monument Street

    Montrose, PA 18801

     

    E-mail: info@susqcohistsoc.org

     

    Tel: 570-278-1622

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    webmaster045
    • Nov 7, 2019
    • 5 min

    November 07 1919

    Kingsley – W.H. Wilmarth was in Montrose to bring the election returns. Although 78 years of age, he is as straight as an arrow, and says...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 9, 2018
    • 5 min

    August 09 1918

    Friendsville – Cornelius McMahon, otherwise known as “Connie Mack,” died at his home Aug. 6, 1918. For fully forty years he drove the sta...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 28, 2017
    • 5 min

    September 28 1917

    Forest City – William Gliha has lost his naturalization papers. Anyone finding same will confer a favor by returning them. ALSO Edward Co...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 15, 2017
    • 5 min

    June 15 1917

    Forest City – The graduating class this year is composed of Elizabeth Jannicelli, Helen Kehren, Henry Curtis, Donald Maxey and William Sr...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 27, 2016
    • 5 min

    October 27 1916

    Choconut – Susquehanna county, which has been free from infantile paralysis cases throughout the epidemic, cannot now boast of freedom fr...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 4, 2016
    • 5 min

    August 04 1916

    Auburn/Montrose – James P. Gay, aged 79, a native of Auburn Twp., now living in Montrose, died July 31, 1916. The deceased was one of sev...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 23, 2016
    • 5 min

    June 23 1916

    Montrose – Flag Day, June 14, was chosen by the Daughters of the American Revolution as being most fitting for the unveiling of their mem...
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    webmaster045
    • May 12, 2016
    • 5 min

    May 12 1916

    Montrose – The first car over the Scranton & Binghamton Railroad Company extension to Montrose left the temporary station near Harington’...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 13, 2015
    • 5 min

    August 13 1915

    Brooklyn – Announcement was made yesterday by the Scranton and Binghamton Railroad Co. that its three-mile extension from Hop Bottom to B...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 25, 2014
    • 5 min

    December 25 1914

    Forest City – The First National and the Farmers and Miners National banks will hereafter be open on pay nights of the Hillside Coal and ...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 11, 2014
    • 5 min

    September 11 1914

    South Gibson – The Lewis House, a licensed hotel conducted by John E. Thomas, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. A grist mill nearby and...
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    webmaster045
    • Jul 10, 2014
    • 5 min

    July 10 1914

    Heart Lake – Heart Lake has been the scene of many a big Fourth of July celebrations, but never a more successful observance of this patr...
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    webmaster045
    • May 22, 2014
    • 4 min

    May 22 1914

    Hallstead – The case of Kenneth Johnson vs. the Lackawanna Railroad [as reported previously] has been affirmed by the Supreme Court in a ...
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    webmaster045
    • May 8, 2014
    • 5 min

    May 08 1914

    Forest City – You have heard the story of Finnigan, the conductor, who having sent in a long account of a wreck was told by the superinte...
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    webmaster045
    • Apr 10, 2014
    • 4 min

    April 10 1914

    Shannon Hill (Auburn Twp.) – Elmer Dunlap, one of our popular young men, was married on Tuesday to Miss Martha LaRue, of Rush, at the hom...
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    webmaster045
    • Jan 23, 2014
    • 5 min

    January 23 1914

    Liquor Licenses - Considerable interest was shown in the session of license court which opened before Judge Little. Many witnesses were h...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 22, 2013
    • 4 min

    August 22 1913

    Herrick Center - A party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Springstein, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Tennant, R.M. Tingley and the Misses Beatrice...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 15, 2013
    • 4 min

    August 15 1913

    Montrose - Many are joining the kitchen Cabinet Club which is being promoted by James C. VanCampen. Many ladies consider this club superi...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 27, 2013
    • 3 min

    June 27 1913

    Thompson - Tuesday afternoon the body of Glen F. Crosier, who died at Tientsin, China, March 16, arrived and was taken to the home of his...
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    webmaster045
    • Apr 11, 2013
    • 4 min

    April 11 1913

    Rush - The stage, operated by Light Bros., between Rushville and Montrose, has the distinction of being the first stage in the county—and...
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