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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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    • 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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    • 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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    webmaster045
    • Sep 8, 2016
    • 6 min

    September 08 1916

    New Milford – John Nelson is seriously ill at the Carpenter Hotel. Mr. Nelson has been a resident of this place for 22 years. His sister ...
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    webmaster045
    • Jun 4, 2015
    • 4 min

    June 04 1915

    Lawton, Rush Twp. - Frances E. Pickett was graduated with high honors from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. ...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 5, 2015
    • 4 min

    February 05 1915

    Hallstead – Fire, which broke out about 3:30 Thursday morning in the postoffice building, destroyed that structure, the grocery store bui...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 18, 2014
    • 5 min

    September 18 1914

    Alford, Brooklyn Twp. – Alford was the scene of a possibly fatal accident when Glenn Richardson, son of A. W. Richardson, of Heart Lake, ...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 4, 2014
    • 5 min

    September 04 1914

    The first Agricultural Fair held in Susquehanna County was at Montrose in 1846. Sixty-eight years ago. It was a day of small things as co...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 7, 2014
    • 5 min

    August 07 1914

    Gibson – Stephen Carpenter, the stage driver, has purchased an auto truck to use between South Gibson and Susquehanna. Heart Lake – Boyd ...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 26, 2013
    • 4 min

    December 26 1913

    Snow commenced falling Christmas night and this morning there is eight or ten inches of snow on the level. Sleigh bells are jingling, and...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 5, 2013
    • 4 min

    December 05 1913

    Hallstead/Binghamton - The art exhibit of artist Douglas Arthur Teed, in the public library galleries in Binghamton, which began last Fri...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 31, 2013
    • 4 min

    October 31 1913

    Clifford - Some of our good patrons of our school being convinced, apparently, that our school directors are not doing their duty, have h...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 29, 2013
    • 4 min

    August 29 1913

    Uniondale - Rumors have been in circulation that the Tri-County Fair would not hold an exhibition this year. This may have had origin fro...
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    webmaster045
    • Aug 1, 2013
    • 4 min

    August 01 1913

    Jackson - Lightning struck the general store of H.M. Benson during a fierce storm Thursday night and started a fire that destroyed severa...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 21, 2013
    • 4 min

    February 21 1913

    East Kingsley - There was a Francis E. Willard [organizer of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union] memorial service held in the Univers...
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    • Aug 25, 2011
    • 4 min

    August 25 1911

    Brandt - After an interval of about four years the manufacture of brick is about to be resumed here. The work of preparation is now going...
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    webmaster045
    • Mar 4, 2010
    • 5 min

    March 04 1910

    Flooding - The rise of water in the Susquehanna river was largely checked when a lowering temperature stopped the thaw of snow and ice in...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 4, 2010
    • 4 min

    February 04 1910

    Hopbottom - The Foster basket ball team, composed of W. Hoppe, A. Hoppe, Brown, Coil and Bertholf, hopped all around the Montrose team at...
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    webmaster045
    • Nov 26, 2009
    • 4 min

    November 26 1909

    The snow of Wednesday and Thursday was very timely to give the regulation Thanksgiving atmosphere and spirit. Many sleighs were out, and w...
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    • Nov 5, 2009
    • 4 min

    November 05 1909

    Forest City - The Hallowe'en spirit was epidemic this year and the young people held high carnival. Garbed in all sorts of outlandish cos...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 29, 2009
    • 4 min

    October 29 1909

    New Milford - The bake contest held at F.T. Austin's was an entire success. Prizes were awarded as follows: first prize, three sacks of f...
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