It's beginning to look like Christmas......

The Holiday weekends have ushered in the Christmas season and the winding down of Montague's 250th anniversary year.

Come visit the Brick House Village, as well as the Rock View Hotel. Costumed volunteers tour with visitors and tell about the displays.

On Dec. 5th the Rec. Committee, Fire Dept and PTA are sponsoring a Holiday Festival and Montague will have a special float entered in the Tri-State Chamber of Commerce Holiday Parade on Sunday Dec. 6th.

Great news!! Montague's Float took 1st place as a Christmas theme display, and the Minisink Church's Kings Kids got 1st Place for their musical offering.

The 1st Thanksgiving!

Some believe that by the time the first settlers began to establish this village there were no Native Americans living in Montague. However, it is well documented that many of the earliest residents were known Indian traders and that the local ministers of the early Minisink Dutch Reformed Church had at one time preached both in Dutch and varied Indian dialects.

It is therefore presumed that a remnant portion of the Lenape were able to live peaceably alongside one another until warriors were instigated by the French and Indian War to try to force the colonists to leave their ancestral lands.
November is set aside and dedicated toward acknowledging NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.

Honoring our Veteran's

Montague's citizens, throughout our town's history, have helped to protect our liberty & freedom - first, on their own homefront in the French and Indian War, and later during the Revolutionary War period and throughout the many times our armed forces were sent out - including the current missions overseas.

During World War 2, the Montague Grange acknowledged our local men and women who had enlisted, up to the time they created this banner. A cloth version hangs at the Foster-Armstrong House, but this wooden one remained with the Grange.

The names with the small Gold Stars next to them are those who paid the ultimate price: Earl Irwin & Irvine DeRemer.

Something new on Highway 206?

There has been some recent activity observed across from Scotty's Automotive
/Lukoil where a former restaurant & bar location - last known as The Blackthorn Inn, and formerly as The Rendezvous - has sat vacant for some time.
The building currently sports white siding with a red metal roof.. and many are hopeful that a family restaurant may once again reopen there.

In the mid 1900's, the location had started out as The Idlebrae on State Route 31, as seen in this postcard image.