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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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    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    January 02 1920

    Montrose – Seven prisoners escaped from County Jail early Christmas night. They managed to affect their escape and all but one, the young...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    December 19 1919

    Herrick Twp. – Gardner Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel G. Lee, near Tirzah, accidentally shot himself and passed away almost instantly...
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    webmaster045
    • Jul 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    July 11 1919

    Lackawanna Trail – R.C. Ruthven, of Scranton, was the low bidder on the section of road construction on the Lackawanna Trail. Mathias Sti...
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    webmaster045
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 5 min

    April 4 1919

    200 Years Ago from the Montrose Gazette, April 3, 1819. *TAILORING BUSINESS. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced the...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 5 min

    February 21 1919

    Montrose – The Ellen E. Mitchell Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans, was informed of the movement to “re-chicken” France. The very old men...
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    webmaster045
    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 5 min

    January 24 1919

    Lawsville – The strike is over! The farmers and the milk dealers have at last come to a satisfactory settlement and the farmers began draw...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 30, 2018
    • 5 min

    August 30 1918

    Bridgewater Twp. – The tractor demonstration on the W.C. Cruser farm, near Lake Mont Rose, drew hundreds of people, it being estimated 1,...
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    • Jun 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    June 21 1918

    Fairdale – A heartrending catastrophe occurred on Friday afternoon when Claude Snell, a popular and highly regarded young farmer, was str...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 28, 2017
    • 5 min

    December 28 1917

    Forest City - Many homes were gladdened in Forest City and vicinity by the arrival of the soldier boys to spend the joyous yuletide at ho...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 21, 2017
    • 5 min

    December 21 1917

    Silver Lake – The box social and dance that was held recently in the Brackney Hall by the ladies of Silver Lake and vicinity, for the ben...
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    webmaster045
    • May 25, 2017
    • 5 min

    May 25 1917

    Hopbottom – After the regular afternoon drill of the Home Guards last week, they formed in double column and marched to Mr. Chesley’s new...
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    • May 11, 2017
    • 5 min

    May 11 1917

    Fairdale – On Thursday of last week, May 3, friends to the number of about 90 gathered at the Lecture room of the Church and formed in li...
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    • Mar 23, 2017
    • 5 min

    March 23 1917

    Fairdale – Friends of the militant pastor of the Fairdale Methodist church of a few years since, Rev. James Lawson, will note with pleasu...
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    • Mar 16, 2017
    • 5 min

    March 16 1917

    Franklin Township – W.H. Sisson passed his 92nd milestone last October and is about the youngest old man we ever met. He was the oldest m...
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    • Feb 9, 2017
    • 5 min

    February 09 1917

    Forest City – The hotelmen of Forest City are opening their bars now at seven o’clock in the morning instead of six o’clock, the hour rec...
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    • Nov 17, 2016
    • 5 min

    November 17 1916

    Montrose – Miss Mabel Shaw witnessed the great motion picture drama, “The Birth of a Nation,” in Binghamton. In the evening she attended ...
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    • Sep 29, 2016
    • 5 min

    September 29 1916

    Gibson – A conundrum social will be held at the home of R. H. Estabrook, Friday night. North Harford – Miss Lillian Gumaer will teach the...
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    • Sep 22, 2016
    • 5 min

    September 22 1916

    Kingsley – The following was read at the marking of the grave of Rufus Kingsley by the D.A.R: “Rufus Kingsley was a drummer boy in the Ba...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 16, 2016
    • 4 min

    June 16 1916

    Montrose – John M. Anderson was born in Kentucky, in 1832, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. B.F. McKeage, June 13, 1916. Mr. An...
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    • Jun 9, 2016
    • 4 min

    June 09 1916

    Fairdale – The social for the boys’ baseball team on Friday night was a success, socially and financially. The drama—“Not a man in the ho...
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