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Did you know...?

* Three United States Representatives of Congress are buried in Port Jervis?

* Major League Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Bucky Harris, was born in Port Jervis?

* 1934 night and day pictures of electric lights installed in Port Jervis are featured on the Smithsonian Institution web site?

* The Library of Congress web site includes an interesting 1920 aero map of Port Jervis?

* In addition to his landscapes, Port Jervis resident, John Newton Howitt, created advertisements, covers for pulp novels and leading magazines, and a WWII poster?
(See entry #34 for the poster.  This link is also to the Library of Congress web site)

 * Former Port Jervis High School wrestlers, Ed and Lou Banach, won Gold Medals in the 1984 Olympics (Ed was light heavyweight and Lou was heavyweight).

* An Urban Legend about alligators living in the New York City sewers has a connection to Port Jervis as documented by a July 3, 1929 reference in the New York Times?

* The "Kalin Twins", a singing duo made famous by their 1958 pop song, "When," were raised in Port Jervis?

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