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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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    • Oct 10, 2019
    • 5 min

    October 10 1919

    Forest City – George Bell, who is staying with his son, Dr. H.R. Bell, is in receipt of a letter from a brother of whom he had heard abso...
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    webmaster045
    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 4 min

    March 07 1919

    Bridgewater Twp. – Pvt. Joseph M. Rafferty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Rafferty, was lately honorably discharged from the students’ army...
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    webmaster045
    • Jul 5, 2018
    • 5 min

    July 05 1918

    Brooklyn – Mrs. Louisa Lee has passed her 90th birthday, yet is active and energetic and anxious to do her all in aiding our soldier boys...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 8, 2018
    • 5 min

    February 08 1918

    Jessup Twp. – To live 85 years in the same community and on the same farm owned by father and grandfather is a record of which few energe...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 19, 2017
    • 5 min

    October 19 1917

    Herrick Twp. – Joseph Tonkin, one of the most highly respected residents of Herrick township, met death by being struck by the engine of ...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 7, 2017
    • 4 min

    September 07 1917

    Jessup Twp. – The schools in this place opened on Monday, Sept. 3, with the following teachers: Griffis Hill, Agnes Brotzman; Bolles, Ber...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 3, 2017
    • 5 min

    August 03 1917

    East Rush – When T.S. James and son went to work in their hay field on Wednesday morning, they were treated to the sight of a fine doe de...
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    webmaster045
    • 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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    webmaster045
    • 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
    • May 5, 2016
    • 5 min

    May 05 1916

    Hallstead – In an effort to prevent the Lackawanna railroad from going through his land, Wm. Florance, a prosperous farmer here has put u...
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    webmaster045
    • Apr 7, 2016
    • 5 min

    April 07 1916

    Jackson – On Thursday, March 30, as Mrs. Lulu Penington, of this place, was walking along the Erie tracks, about two miles north of Herri...
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    webmaster045
    • Nov 19, 2015
    • 6 min

    November 19 1915

    Susquehanna/Oakland – Thomas Kane, aged 91 years, died at his home in Oakland, on Friday, Nov. 12, 1915, after a brief illness. The funer...
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    • Jul 2, 2015
    • 5 min

    July 02 1915

    Brooklyn – Miss Alice Lee has just published another book entitled “Ross Grant, Tenderfoot,” the sequel of which is now in press. [Alice ...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 25, 2015
    • 5 min

    June 25 1915

    Herrick Twp. – James W. Lyon, of Guelph, Canada is endowing the Lyon Street cemetery with $1000 to be used in keeping this burial ground ...
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    • Mar 19, 2015
    • 4 min

    March 19 1915

    Rush – C.H. Davis has for over 50 years been engaged in shoemaking and repairing in Rush, where he has a reputation for good work that is...
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    webmaster045
    • Mar 12, 2015
    • 5 min

    March 12 1915

    Hallstead – The second time we have been visited by a disastrous fire on Main Street, in a little over a month, occurred on Monday evenin...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 26, 2015
    • 5 min

    February 26 1915

    Lynn, Springville Twp. – We are enjoying a whole week of good old fashioned spring weather. Not far away, in Ainey, the bluebirds have ma...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 16, 2014
    • 5 min

    October 16 1914

    Brooklyn – Mrs. Sarah S. Weston, widow of E.L. Weston, died Sunday, three days after the death of her husband. While Mrs. Weston was up 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
    • 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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