Attractions
About
a 90 minute drive from New
York City, and within a day's ride of Philadephia,
PA, Atlantic
City, NJ, Washington,
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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