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PORT JERVIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 118 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORT JERVIS , a See also:city of See also:Orange See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the See also:Delaware See also:river, at its junction with the Neversink, 88 m. N.W. of New York city by See also:rail, and at the intersection of the boundary lines of the states of New York, New See also:Jersey and See also:Pennsylvania. Pop. (1900), 9385, of whom 895 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (19'o See also:census), 9564. It is served by the See also:Erie and the New York, See also:Ontario & Western See also:railways. The beauty of the scenery in its vicinity has made the city a summer resort. At Port Jervis are situated the extensive shops of the Erie railway. Among the manufactures are wearing See also:apparel, See also:silk, See also:glass, and See also:silver See also:ware. The value of the factory products increased from $1,009,081 in 1900 to $1,635,215 in 1905, or 62 %. Port Jervis was laid out in '826, soon after See also:work began on the Delaware & See also:Hudson See also:Canal; it owes its origin to that waterway (now abandoned), and was named in See also:honour of See also:John See also:Bloomfield Jervis (1795-1885), the engineer who constructed the canal, who, in 1836, was in See also:charge of the construction of the Croton See also:Aqueduct, and wrote Railway See also:Property (1859) and The Construction and Management of Railways (186'). Port Jervis was incorporated as a See also:village in 1853, and was chartered as a city in 1907.

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