Port Jervis, New York, USA
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Where is Port Jervis, New York, USA? Port Jervis is a city on the Delaware River in western Orange County, New York. The communities of Deerpark, Huguenot, Sparrowbush, and Greenville are adjacent to Port Jervis, and the towns of Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvania face the city across the respective state borders.Wikipedia
Port Jervis, New York, USA
Port Jervis and Vicinity
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
Port Jervis, New York, USA
The Erie Limited Speeding Through The Mountains Near Port Jervis, N.Y.
Port Jervis, New York, USA
Opera House, Port Jervis, N.Y.
Port Jervis, New York, USA
Delaware River Bridge, Port Jervis, N.Y.
Port Jervis, New York, USA
St. Francis Hospital, Port Jervis, N.Y.
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1868 - The boiler of a locomotive exploded at Port Jervis, N. Y., on the 17th, instantly killing the engineer, Fred Hardenburg.The fireman was in front of the engine and escaped unharmed. Hardenburg was carried over the top of ...Read MORE...
1869 - The employes of the Erie Railroad work shops in Buffalo and Port Jervis were on a strike on the 18th.St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 23, 1869
1869 - Locomotive ExplosionsJuly 18. Explosion of locomotive No. 294, on the Erie Railway, at Port Jervis, New York. The engine ...Read MORE...
1875 - Neversink House FireThe Neversink House, a Summer hotel at Port Jervis Depot, N. Y., owned by F. Mertz caught fire from ...Read MORE...
1876 - ChristmasTHE POST OFFICE ON CHRISTMAS.
The postoffice will be opened on Christmas day from 9 to 10 a.m. and ...Read MORE...
1885 - A Port Jervis man has concluded that if there can be a scarecrow there can also be a scarebug.So he stuck a little stake in the middle of his cucumber hills on which he has attached a small...Read MORE...
1902 - FIRE AT PORT JERVIS, N.Y. DELAWARE HOUSE BURNED AND SEVENTEEN HORSES PERISH - LOSS ESTIMATED AT $75,000, WITH $20,000 INSURANCE.Port Jervis, N.Y., Aug. 30. - A fire started from spontaneous combustion in the hayloft of...Read MORE...
1906
Port Jervis, a post-village and summer-resort of Orange co., N.Y., on the Delaware River, J mile...Read MORE...
Port Jervis, a post-village and summer-resort of Orange co., N.Y., on the Delaware River, J mile...Read MORE...
1955 - Hurricane Diane - NINE DEATHS REPORTED IN EASTERN PA. 650 YOUNGSTERS MAROONED; RAIN REACHES 9 INCHES.
...While Pennsylvania was hardest hit by what was left by Hurricane DIANE, there were floods...Read MORE...
...While Pennsylvania was hardest hit by what was left by Hurricane DIANE, there were floods...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Jacob Gumaer CUDDEBACK
(13 March 1799, Port Jervis, New York, USA - 8 April 1863, Milford, Pike, Pennsylvania, USA)
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Blandina HORNBECK
(5 May 1800, Port Jervis, New York, USA - 8 May 1832, )
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Ancestors Who Died Here
 
Jan Gerritsen DECKER
(23 April 1640, Husum,, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - 1717, Port Jervis, New York, USA)
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Zara (Sarah) WESTBROOK
(10 June 1694, Kingston, New York, USA - 20 December 1766, Port Jervis, New York, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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Saffrein HORNBECK (1780 - July 1806) &
Hannah DECKER (1784 - )
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Cemeteries in Port Jervis, New York, USA
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