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Tuckahoe is a disused train station located on Railroad Avenue in the Tuckahoe section of Upper Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.The station was built in 1894 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984, for its significance in architecture and transportation.
It offers two excursion services: a 30-mile (48 km) round trip between Richland and Tuckahoe along the Beesley's Point Secondary railroad line and a 14-mile (23 km) round trip between Rio Grande, Cold Spring Village, and Cape May City along the Cape May Branch (service between Rio Grande and Cape May is suspended due to theft of track material ...
The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Tuckahoe during the mid-1840s, and evidence of a station in Tuckahoe can be found at least as far back as the 1850s. [3] [4] The current Tuckahoe station building was originally built in 1901, by the New York Central Railroad, and was given an additional baggage elevator approximately in 1912. [5]
Tuckahoe / t ʌ k ə ˈ h oʊ / is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. One-and-a-half miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, with the Bronx River serving as its western boundary, the Village of Tuckahoe is approximately sixteen miles north of midtown Manhattan in Southern Westchester County. [ 2 ]
Crestwood station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the communities of Tuckahoe, Yonkers, and Eastchester, New York.Because of its location at the northern end of the triple-track segment of the Harlem Line, Crestwood is often the first/last stop outside New York City on Harlem Line express trains, and its center island platform is frequently used to ...
Since the tuckahoe was found in great abundance in this area, members of various Lenape tribes would visit this location to collect them. A bridge, constructed in 1926 and renovated in 1961, connects Tuckahoe to Corbin City, its neighbor to the north. [7] It is also the headquarters for the Cape May Seashore Lines Railroad.
Tidewater and Western Railroad: 1905 1917 N/A Tuckahoe and James River Railroad: 1837 Valley Railroad: B&O: 1866 Valley Street Railway: 1890 1892 Big Stone Gap and Powell's Valley Railway: Virginia Air Line Railway: C&O: 1906 1912 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Virginia Anthracite Coal and Railway Company: N&W: 1902 1911 Norfolk and Western Railway
Eastchester's rural makeup began to change with the coming of the railroad in the 1840s. An area of 370 acres (1,500,000 m 2) of land was incorporated as the village of Mount Vernon in 1853 by a group of New York businessmen; [citation needed] the village of Bronxville was incorporated in 1898; [citation needed] and the village of Tuckahoe in 1903.