On Easter Sunday, 1905, the company transferred the headquarters of
the principal Delaware division official from Port Jervis to
Susquehanna. This involved the removal of thirty officials and
assistants, including the superintendent, train master, division
engineer, division plumber, and division carpenter.
GOOD ROADS.
This section will benefit by the good roads movement lately adopted
by the State, and Port Jervis may naturally expect considerable
increase of trade and perhaps of population from the three State
roads now in process of construction which converge in this city. One
of these begins in Middletown, passes through Wawayanda and
Greenville and comes out upon the road leading from Tappentown to
Tri-States. Another starts from Middletown and passes through
Otisville and Cuddebackville, taking at the last named place the old
road pronounced by the State inspector to be one of the finest in the
State. A third leads from the Sullivan County line at Rio on the west
to Port Jervis.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
The year just passed has witnessed the organization of a City
Improvement Association composed of ladies, the object of which is
sufficiently indicated by its name. It has an active corps of
officers and members animated by a praiseworthy spirit of civic
pride. Mrs. Maria B. Van Etten is the president.
PLACES OF SPECIAL NOTE.
Tri-States Rock, situated at the confluence of the Delaware and
Neversink Rivers, at which the boundary lines of three States--New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey--intersect, is one of the show
places of the town. The rock is at the extreme point of the narrow
tongue of land lying between the two rivers and at the mouth of the
Neversink. The geological formation is rocky and will stand the wear
of the floods for centuries to come as it has for centuries past. A
small monument now marks the spot.
The site of the old Dutch church on the Van Inwegen land directly
opposite the old Machackemech cemetery on Main street is suggestive
of historic memories. Here assembled for worship in the old log
"meeting house" of 1743 the pioneer families of this section. The
house was burned by Brandt and his savages in the historic raid of
July, 1779.
The Van Etten schoolhouse, from which the teacher, Jeremiah Van
Auken, was taken out and cruelly murdered in the same raid, was
located on the old Levi Van Etten farm, afterwards owned by Mark
Van Etten, on the east side of the Neversink River about one-fourth
of a mile north of Black Rock cut on the Erie.
The forts mentioned in the early annals gather about themselves most
of the traditions of Indian attack. In the upper neighborhood there
was one at the house of Jacob Rutsen De Witt. This was near
Cuddebackville, on the west side of the Neversink. Another fort was
at the Gumaer place, now the Godeffroy estate. The old stone
building is still standing and in excellent preservation.
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