Port Jervis, New York Port Jervis Skyline of Port Jervis Location in Orange County and the state of New York.
Location in Orange County and the state of New York.
Port Jervis is positioned in New York Port Jervis - Port Jervis Location in Orange County and the state of New York.
State New York Website City of Port Jervis Website Port Jervis is a town/city located at the confluence of the Neversink and the Delaware rivers in Orange County, New York, north of the Delaware Water Gap.
The communities of Deerpark, Huguenot, Sparrowbush, and Greenville are adjoining to Port Jervis.
In the 21st century, from late spring to early fall, many thousands of travelers and tourists pass through Port Jervis on their way to appreciateing rafting, kayaking, canoeing and other activities in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and the encircling area.
Port Jervis is part of the Poughkeepsie Newburgh Middletown urbane region as well as the larger New York urbane area.
In August 2008, Port Jervis was titled one of "Ten Coolest Small Towns" by Budget Travel magazine. After the Delaware and Hudson Canal was opened in 1828, providing transit of coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York and New England via the Hudson River, trade thriving cash and further evolution to the area. A village was incorporated in 1853.
It was retitled as Port Jervis in the mid-19th century, after John Bloomfield Jervis, chief engineer of the D&H Canal.
Port Jervis interval steadily into the 1900s, and on July 26, 1907, it became a city.
The first rail line to run through Port Jervis was the New York & Erie Railroad, which in 1832 was chartered to run from Piermont, New York, on the Hudson River in Rockland County, to Lake Erie.
A second barns , the Port Jervis and Monticello Railroad, later leased to the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (O&W), opened in 1868, running north out of the city, and eventually connecting to Kingston, New York, Weehawken, New Jersey and connections. Like the D&H Canal, the barns s brought new prosperity to Port Jervis in the form of increased trade and investment in the improve from the outside.
Port Jervis became Erie's division center between Jersey City, New Jersey and Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, and by 1922, twenty passenger trains went through the town/city every day.
One of the first Class I barns s to shut down was the O&W, in 1957, leaving Port Jervis totally reliant on the Erie.
Railroad revamping continued and in 1976, the Erie Lackawana became part of Conrail, along with a number of other struggling barns s, such as the Penn Central. Since the breakup of Conrail, the trackage around Port Jervis has been controlled by Norfolk Southern.
The diminish of the barns s was an economic blow to Port Jervis.
On June 2, 1892, Robert Lewis, an African American, was lynched, hanged on Main Street in Port Jervis by a mob after being accused of participation in an assault on a white woman. A grand jury indicted nine citizens in connection with the lynching. Some literary critics think this even may have inspired Stephen Crane's 1898 novella The Monster; Crane lived in Port Jervis for a time. A view of Port Jervis showing the Mid-Delaware Bridge to Matamoras, Pennsylvania on the far right and New Jersey's High Point on the Kittatinny Ridge on the far left View of Port Jervis from High Point, New Jersey Port Jervis is positioned on the north bank of the Delaware River at the confluence where: 1) the Neversink River the Delaware's biggest tributary empties into the larger river.
Port Jervis is connected by the Mid-Delaware Bridge athwart the Delaware to Matamoras, Pennsylvania.
It heads southeast from there, closing past New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey; and the capital Trenton, New Jersey; to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Delaware Bay.
Port Jervis lies near the points where the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania come together.
On the north side (New York), it references the corner boundary point between New York and Pennsylvania that is positioned in the center of the Delaware River 475 feet (145 m) due west of the Tri-State Rock.
On the north side it references the corner boundary point between New York and Pennsylvania positioned in the center of the Delaware River west of the Tri-State Rock; on the south side it references the Tri-State Rock about 10 yards to the south.
The lesser monument, the Tri-State Rock, marks both the northwest end of the New Jersey and New York boundary and the north end of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania boundary. It is a small granite block with inscribed lines marking the boundaries of the three states and a bronze National Geodetic Survey marker at the triple point, where you can stand in three states at once.
The current Tri-State Monument is a replacement for the initial monument erected in 1774, which was meaningful in resolving the New York - New Jersey Line War.
Route 209, New York State Route 42, and New York State Route 97 (the "Upper Delaware Scenic Byway") pass through Port Jervis.
Port Jervis is the last stop on the 95-mile-long (153 km) Port Jervis Line, which is a commuter barns service from Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City (via a Secaucus Transfer) that is contracted to NJ Transit by the Metro-North Railroad of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The track itself continues on to Binghamton and Buffalo, but passenger service west of Port Jervis was discontinued in November 1966.
Short Line provides bus service between Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Port Jervis, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Notable current and former inhabitants of Port Jervis include: Ed and Lou Banach, 1984 Summer Olympics wrestling gold medalists lived in Port Jervis and graduated from Port Jervis Senior High School. Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, lived in Port Jervis between the ages 6 11 and incessantly visited and wrote there from 1890 to early 1897. William Howe Crane (1854-1926), older brother of Stephen Crane lived and practiced law in Port Jervis for many years.
Stefanie Dolson, basketball player for Washington Mystics and formerly of the Connecticut Huskies Women's Basketball team, was born in Port Jervis.
Arthur Gray (1925 2006) was the longest serving Mayor of Port Jervis and was later a New York State Senator.
The Port Jervis United States Post Office building is dedicated to his name. Lived in Port Jervis for a duration of undertaking school and middle school.
While living in Port Jervis he played Pop Warner Football and excelled at the sport.
Is in Port Jervis a b c "Port Jervis and the Gilded Age", Minisink Valley Historical Society "Lynching at Port Jervis.
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City of Port Jervis historical marker at the church site Trenton, New Jersey: Geological Survey of New Jersey.
"Port Jervis Celebrates Its Conquering Heroes", New York Times, September 3, 1984.
"The Banach boys, as everyone knows them here, came back home this weekend, and as the townspeople jubilated their own Olympic gold medalists with a day of marching bands, waving flags and heartfelt speeches, all the difficult times and disasters Port Jervis had railroadseemed at last forgotten." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Port Jervis, New York.
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