BARRYVILLE, NY — Now, years later, visitors to the Minisink Battleground park can actually learn what those mysterious trail markers stand for.

The Delaware Company is marking its 10th anniversary with a new project, dedicated to recreating that lost information.

For many years, visitors to the Minisink Battleground walked the trails, using numbered markers and brochures that explained what those markers meant. But for more than a decade now, the brochures have been lost.

The project has actually been years in the making, according to Debra Conway, executive director of the Delaware Company. Without the original brochures, which contained the key to the markers, it was slow going, she said.

Enter Ruth Huggler of Youngsville, an avid history buff and member of the Sullivan County Historical Society board of directors, who this fall presented the Delaware Company with copies of the three original brochures that provided the legend for the numbered markers on three different trails at the battleground.

“I was intent on finding copies of the guides ever since I heard over a year ago they were missing,” Huggler said. “I did a thorough search through the historical society’s files, without success.”

But she likes a challenge, she said, and after much searching, finally found the brochures.

The new project, which will begin this winter in collaboration with the county’s office of parks, recreation and beautification, involves the repair, reinstatement and modernizing of the markers and the updating and reprinting of the brochures.

The Minisink Trail Project is made possible by a grant from the Tianaderrah Foundation and by private donations.

For more information about The Delaware Company and its projects, visit its website, thedelawarecompany.org, or find it on Facebook at TheDelCo.