Goshen Stories Retold

Local historian and author Salvatore LaBruna has written and compiled a collection of twenty articles on various topics related to the history of Goshen, New York. Author’s Preface The Land of Goshen We know the first white woman in Goshen was Sarah Wells. So let’s talk about Mercy, Goshen’s first black woman. The Native American slaves of Goshen Goshen has an old and nearly forgotten connection to traditional Irish music Dr. Benjamin Tusten: Hero of Minisink and the battle against smallpox American spelling books began in Goshen Goshen’s man at the Continental Congress Perpetual Motion Goshen Evidence suggests Goshen Fire Department may be county’s oldest volunteer company The War of 1812 and the untimely death of Captain Dan Hatheway of Goshen Goshen and The Year Without a Summer Students would sometimes lock out their teacher to get Christmas vacation A child’s headstone in the Case Family Burial Ground conceals a tragic story Dying from drink was unlucky, but not uncommon in early 19th Century Goshen Behold! The earliest depiction of Goshen Mat Tice of Goshen was so respected he even had friends in Hell—literally A Goshen resident dies on the Titanic The Flu Pandemic of 1918 could not keep kids from making mischief on Halloween George Carlin at Goshen’s Salesian School