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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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    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 5 min

    December 05 1919

    Thompson – There will be roller skating at Keystone Hall every Friday evening until further notice is given. Those in charge are desirous...
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    webmaster045
    • Oct 10, 2019
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    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
    • Oct 3, 2019
    • 5 min

    October 03 1919

    Montrose – Marshall H. VanScoten died at his home on Sept. 28. He was a native of Blairstown, NJ, where he was born 78 years ago on Sept....
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 26, 2019
    • 5 min

    September 26 1919

    Fair Hill, Forest Lake Twp. – The Shelp reunion was well attended. Those from a distance were: Mrs. Bennett, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, forme...
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    webmaster045
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 4 min

    February 27 1919

    Thompson – Any person finding a ten dollar bill, which was lost Saturday night between the Jefferson House and Wilmarth’s store, please l...
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    • Jan 10, 2019
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    January 10 1919

    Theodore Roosevelt died suddenly in his sleep. The former President succumbed to rheumatic attack, which had given him trouble for nearly...
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    webmaster045
    • Dec 13, 2018
    • 5 min

    December 13 1918

    With “Our Boys” in the Field. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terboss, of Great Bend, have been notified by the War department of the death of their gr...
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    • Oct 11, 2018
    • 4 min

    October 11 1918

    With Our Boys in the Field. Niles Johnson, of Uniondale, is home on furlough. He is a fireman on board the C.S. Cruiser, Frederick, a tro...
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    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 5 min

    October 04 1918

    With Our Boys in the Field: August Smith, Montrose, was lately promoted to corporal at the veterinary training school at Camp Lee, Virgin...
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    webmaster045
    • Sep 6, 2018
    • 5 min

    September 06 1918

    Susquehanna County – The shortage of teachers in the county is causing patriotically inclined people, who have been engaged in other prof...
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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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    • Jul 19, 2018
    • 5 min

    July 19 1918

    Silver Lake – Jerry Mahanna, of Mud Lake, is the first young man from this county to be reported wounded in the fighting on the French fr...
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    • Jun 28, 2018
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    June 28 1918

    Hallstead – Several Montrose attorneys were over to Hallstead, Monday, to attend the trustee’s sale of personal property in the bankruptc...
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    • May 31, 2018
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    May 31 1918

    Montrose – Roger Spaulding was seriously injured Tuesday evening when an automobile ran him down as he was driving on the outskirts of tow...
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    • Mar 15, 2018
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    March 15 1918

    Rush – Edward Cavanaugh advertises ten cows, five horses and other stock and farming utensils and implements in today’s Republican. Mr. C...
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    • Feb 22, 2018
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    February 22 1918

    Herrick Center – John Opeka was drowned in Lowe Lake, Feb. 14. Mr. Opeka bought the Davis farm, which borders the lake, about 3 years ago...
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    • Feb 1, 2018
    • 4 min

    February 01 1918

    Montrose – The library is to be closed on Mondays and Fridays until further notice in order to conserve fuel. ALSO J.J. Ryan and Co. is i...
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    • Dec 28, 2017
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    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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    • Nov 23, 2017
    • 5 min

    November 23 1917

    The following couples applied for marriages licenses: Harry E. Benson and Margaret Wood, Jackson; Theodore J. Carlin and Anna LaFrance, ...
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    • Nov 16, 2017
    • 5 min

    November 16 1917

    Susquehanna – On Tuesday of this week the Susquehanna Transcript starts in under a new management, having been placed under the control o...
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