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It was renamed as Port Jervis in the mid-19th century, after John Bloomfield Jervis, chief engineer of the D&H Canal. Port Jervis grew steadily into the 1900s, and on July 26, 1907, it became a city. The Erie Depot, built in 1892, was the largest station on the Erie Railroad's Delaware Division. The Erie ceased long-distance passenger service ...
The Port Jervis station is a disused train station at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Fowler Street in Port Jervis, New York. It was built in 1892 as a passenger station for the Erie Railroad by Grattan & Jennings in the Queen Anne style .
Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892. His lynching was attended by what the local newspaper reported was a mob of 2,000 people, [1] and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster.
Port Jervis station is a commuter rail stop owned by Metro-North Railroad serving trains on the Port Jervis Line, located in Port Jervis, New York. It is the western terminus of the Port Jervis Line. Located slightly off US 6 and 209 in downtown Port Jervis, it is the
The Port Jervis Line is a predominantly single-track commuter rail line running between Suffern and Port Jervis, in the U.S. state of New York. At Suffern, the line continues south into New Jersey on NJ Transit's Main Line. The line is operated by NJ Transit Rail Operations under a contract with Metro-North Railroad (MNRR).
It is located on West Main Street in Port Jervis, New York, United States, the oldest building in that city, which it predates by several decades. The original Fort Decker was built by a Frederick Haynes, a Dutch settler, sometime before 1760, during the French and Indian War, as an unofficial defense and trading post. It was one and a half ...
U.S. 209 halfway between Huguenot and Port Jervis Deerpark, New York: State Line as claimed by New Jersey, 1686–1769, 7 miles north of present line at Port Jervis, N. Y., caused 50 year border war 6: N. J. LINE WAR: 1936: Neversink Drive, east of Port Jervis Deerpark, New York: Hendrick Decker and his brother, Jan, settled here about 1698.
People from Port Jervis, New York (25 P) Pages in category "Port Jervis, New York" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.