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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Falls Mills (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Falls Mills. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Falls Mills ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Falls Mills: Falls Mls. (or less commonly used: Falls Mlls.)
  • While the name of this community is Falls Mills, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Falls Mills may originally have been Fall's Mills.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Falls Mills might be written as Fall Mills.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Falls Mills is located in Sullivan County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sullivan County: Delaware, Orange, Ulster, Pike (PA) & Wayne (PA).

Below are the counties that are near Falls Mills. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Falls Mills:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Falls Mills, see our County-by-County Page for Falls Mills.

Cemeteries Near Falls Mills ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Falls Mills.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Falls Mills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Falls Mills, with the one closest to Falls Mills listed first.

  • East Cochecton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Cochecton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Cochecton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Fosterdale Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fosterdale Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fosterdale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Long Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Long Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Long Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lake Huntington Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lake Huntington Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lake Huntington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bauernfeind Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Layton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Layton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Layton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Overlook Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Nearing Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nearing Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nearing Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Cross Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Lucys Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Lucys Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Lucys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Laurel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Laurel Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Laurel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Fayerweather Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fayerweather Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fayerweather Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Dorrer Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dorrer Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dorrer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Lyon Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lyon Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lyon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Falls Mills had a population of 50 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Falls Mills, with the one closest to Falls Mills listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Falls Mills. See our List of 1890's Communities around Falls Mills.

Newspapers Published in Falls Mills ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Falls Mills.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Falls Mills, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Falls Mills.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Falls Mills:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Falls Mills. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Sullivan County: www.co.sullivan.ny.us/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Falls Mills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Falls Mills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Falls Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7283, Longitude: -74.9841    









 

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