Port Jervis travel guide

Port Jervis is an American city in Orange County, New York. The population was 8,860 at the 2000 census.
The city of Port Jervis neighbors the point where the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania adjoin. Port Jervis was a port on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. It is also known as the "River City." The town is named in honor of John B. Jervis, the chief engineer on the canal.
The communities of Germantown (which is now actually Port Jervis' West End) and Huguenot are adjacent to Port Jervis. The towns of Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvania face the city across the respective state borders. The Orange County Town of Deerpark is to the north.
The town 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). (...) more....

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