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Port Jervis, New York  12771   

"Where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Come Together"
Latitude: 41.375093° N   Longitude: -74.692663° W
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  The Hawks' Nest 

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A Rare Upstream View Aerial Photo  of Port Jervis courtesy of  James DeGroat 
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Port Jervis Maghogomock Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 take 1st Prize for best decorated emergency vehicle in the 40th annual Rick Drew Holiday Parade.  
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Alternate Orange County Department Locations Due to Storm Related Closure of County Government Center

01/21/12 Graffiti cases on the rise in Port Jervis
01/10/12 Pre-Storm Train Service Resumes on the Port Jervis Line!
New timetable goes into effect on the Port Jervis Line Sunday 01/15/12
01/09/12 Port Jervis residents protest closing hospital maternity ward
01/08/12 More than 18,000 comment on fracking  
Anti-fracking responses running at 10 to one against pro-fracking
12/23/11 NJ Transit to Offer Extra Trains During Holiday Week
Family discounts will also be available Dec. 23 through Jan. 3.
11/28/11 Metro-North Port Jervis Line is restored
11/18/11 Supermarket baker rolls in the dough with big lottery win

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Renowned author, Stephen Crane, lived and wrote in Port Jervis. Crane's  most famous work, The Red Badge of Courage, is said to have been influenced by Civil War veterans of the 124th NYS "Orange Blossoms" Brigade

D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and other silent movie notables pioneered 
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Fascinating, highly detailed 1958 study  by the National Research Council analyzing the effects a 1955 Hurricane Diane flood rumor had on Port Jervis

 


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America's Most Endangered River

The Upper Delaware
Gas drilling cited as major threat
Pennsylvanians choose Delaware as  2011 River of the Year

Gas drilling makes the Susquehanna River #1 on 2011 most endangered rivers list

01/21/12 Pa. protesters fault regulatory plans for gas drilling - Lack of local zoning controls cited
01/19/12 Corbett will sign gas drilling emergency-response bill
01/15/12 Anti-fracking residents applaud Hector Town Board's response to DEC
01/13/12 Pa. families asking EPA chief to send water
01/12/12 DA: Dimock session on water offer 'arguably' improper
Township's 3 supervisors at unannounced meeting
01/03/12
Confirmed: Fracking caused Ohio earthquakes
01/03/12
Fracking’s toll: Serious questions over technique for drilling for natural gas
01/03/12 Oil and gas 'fracking' wastewater caused 11 earthquakes in Ohio: seismologist 
Wastewater wells have also been suspected in quakes in Arkansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma
12/09/11 No gas-drilling water permits in Delaware River
Gas company's plan to draw 250,000 gallons of water per day from pristine trout stream put on hold. 
12/08/11 EPA implicates fracking in pollution
12/06/11 EPA slams Pa.’s new Marcellus air pollution rules
12/06/11 Anti-fracking advocates send NY water to Pa. town
12/06/11 Revenue from drilling income taxes is lower
12/05/11 Dimock leaders questioned on discussion of water offer  Pa. open meetings law at issue
12/05/11 Seminar for police focuses on potential gas-drilling issues 
Most drilled county in PA sees DWI arrests almost double in one year.
12/02/11
UPDATE: Man charged in spill near Pa. gas-drilling site Sludge-like substance found on hunting land
11/30/11 Fracking foes rally before NYC hearing
11/30/11 Driller to stop water to families in Dimock, Pa.
12/05/11 Burning Love  Some 1,600 new wells drilled in Pennsylvania in past 10 months. 
Total number projected could eventually grow to more than 100,000.
11/28/11
At ground zero for fracking, residents say water has gone bad  West Virginia
11/19/11 Fracking offers profit to some, risk to others

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Port Jervis, NY, 12771

Introduction

Port Jervis, New York, is located on the scenic upper Delaware river where the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet (see maps here).

Claiming a population shown by the 2010 U.S. Census as slightly less than 9,000, this small city is further situated on the western border of Orange County, one of New York's original counties and whose founding dates back to 1683. 

The current city of Port Jervis was once part of the still surrounding Town of Deerpark which was itself established in 1798.   After incorporating as a village in 1853, and later being legally divided from the Town of Deerpark, in 1907 Port Jervis became a city.

On its New Jersey side, Port Jervis abuts Montague Township while its Pennsylvania neighbor across the Delaware River is Westfall Township.

 

 

 

 

 

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It is said that prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Port Jervis was known as "Magagkamack," which is a Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indian) phrase that has been interpreted as "pumpkin field" or "land covered in grass."  It was in the general vicinity of Port Jervis that a sub-group of the Lenape, the Munsee, made their traditional seat of government.

Because of its location and waterways, which also includes the mouth of the Neversink river, Port Jervis has long been a transportation hub.

Begun in 1825, the Delaware and Hudson Canal was the nation's first million dollar private venture and it crossed Port Jervis as did what is sometimes described as the oldest 100 mile commercial road in America.  It is after John B. Jervis, one of the D & H Canal's principal engineers, that the city is named.    

As the transportation and mining of coal was the reason the D & H canal was built, one of the accomplishments achieved by the city's namesake related to that work was designing  the first steam engine locomotive  ever to run in the United States.  

Consistent with its geography and prominence in early 19th century transportation, Port Jervis also became an  important railroad center and still has one of the region's few remaining steam engine turntables.  

Perhaps the most famous of Port Jervis citizens was the acclaimed author of the Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, who started school here at age six.  The inspiration for that novel and other of his works held associations to Port Jervis where he stayed with his brother William, wrote articles in the local newspaper, and would return throughout most of his adult life. 

 

 

 

 

 

        

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Today, commuter rail service to points east and south, - including New York City - is provided by New Jersey Transit.  Additional connections can be made by Amtrak in Manhattan's Penn Station and through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, of which Metro-North Railroad is part.   The following link provides the location of and directions to the Port Jervis train station.    

Transportation by CoachUSA|Shortline Bus  service is available with connections at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.   

Interstate Route 84 and New Jersey's Route 23 are found at the city's southeastern border.  

Likewise, both Stewart International Airport and the New York State Thruway (I-87) can be reached by a convenient 45 minute drive via Interstate Route 84.   

New York Route 17 (future I-86) also connects with the Interstate and lies approximately 30 minutes from Port Jervis.      

 

 

 

 

 

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About a 90 minute drive from New York City,  and within a day's ride of Philadephia, PA, Atlantic City, NJWashington, D.C., Boston, MA,  and Montreal, Canada, Port Jervis retains its rural quality.  

Attracted by the area's natural beauty, including the scenic "Hawk's Nest" section of New York Route 97, every year hundreds of thousands of visitors canoe and raft down the Delaware river.  This same region is a popular fishing spot and is graced with American Bald Eagles that can be observed from public viewing areas, particularly during the winter months.   

A map giving short descriptions and locations of some of the area's attractions can be found here.

Additional Information

The following additional Wikipedia.org information about Port Jervis and related areas is made available  under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons.

Port Jervis is a city in Orange County, New York. The population was 8,860 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

The communities of Deerpark, Huguenot, Sparrowbush, and Greenville are adjacent to Port Jervis. The towns of Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvania face the city across the respective state borders. Port Jervis is the home of the last stop on the 95-mile-long (151 km) Port Jervis Line, which is a commuter railroad line from Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City that is contracted to NJ Transit by the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company—the line itself continues on to Binghamton and Buffalo, but passenger service beyond Port Jervis was discontinued in 1966.

On June 2, 1892, Robert Lewis, an African American, was lynched on Main Street in Port Jervis after being accused of participation in an assault on a white woman. A grand jury indicated nine people in connection with the lynching.  This event would serve as inspiration for one-time Port Jervis resident and author Stephen Crane's 1898 novella The Monster.

Port Jervis grew steadily into the 1900s. On July 26, 1907, it became a city.

In the mid 1920's the Ku Klux Klan was active in the area, burning crosses on Point Peter, the mountain peak that overlooks Port Jervis.

As of the 2010 census information available in March 2011 there were 8,828 people reported living in Port Jervis which represented a decrease of 32 individuals or -.04% compared to a decade earlier.  The 2010 data showed the ethnic composition of the community was 6,735 White, non-Hispanic, 1,054 Hispanic, 654 Black, 117 Asian, and 800 categorized as other with 6,596 of those individual listed as adults and 2,232 as children.   2010 census figures noted 3,957 housing units and 387 vacant housing.

South of the Laurel Grove Cemetery, under the viaduct for Interstate 84, are two monuments that symbolically mark the boundaries between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 

The Tri-State Monument is a replacement for the original monument erected in 1774 that was important in resolving the New York - New Jersey Line War.

 

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