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    Delaware Valley Railway: 1901-1937
    Delaware Valley Railway: 1901-1937
    Delaware Valley Railway: 1901-1937
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    Delaware Valley Railway: 1901-1937

    By Michelle Jacques with John Beljean and Kim Williams

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    From 1901 to 1937, the lone engine of the Delaware Valley Railway chugged up and down its solitary track, from the Stroudsburgs to Bushkill. It was a time of heady prospects as the resorts of the Delaware Water Gap pushed north up the valley. Modest farmhouses became vacation boardinghouses, and some then blossomed into grand hotels. The railway brought in vacationers by the carload, but it was not just about tourism. The dinkey hauled in coal for winter heat and hauled out lumber, dairy, and farm produce that kept the farmers in cash. Farm children commuted to town to earn their high school degrees. For more than a generation, the dinkey's whistle blowing over the valley linked its people and places.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateJun 12, 2017
    ISBN9781439660881
    Delaware Valley Railway: 1901-1937
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    Michelle Jacques with John Beljean

    Michelle Jacques and John Beljean have worked a total of 20 years as interpretive rangers at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, a national park containing the upper two miles of the railway's route. Starting with hikes that searched for the right-of-way, the authors have combined the archives of historical societies, railroad museums, and local government with the scrapbooks of valley residents to recreate a corner of rural America and its encounter with the age of rail.

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      Delaware Valley Railway - Michelle Jacques with John Beljean

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      THE RAILWAY ERA

      In Monroe County, the valley of the Delaware River runs northeast to southwest and is linked firmly to Bushkill, just across the Pike County line to the northeast, and Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg to the southwest. Through the valley on the Pennsylvania side runs Milford Road, descendant of a centuries-old Indian path from the Hudson River and New England to Philadelphia.

      Clustered along the road in the railway era were small communities, surrounded by farms and dotted by natural and artificial lakes—Craigs Meadows, Marshalls Creek, Frutcheys, Coolbaugh, Shoemakers, and Bushkill (in both Monroe and Pike Counties). By 1900, many farmhouses had turned to the resort industry by taking in summer guests. With names like villa, cottage, inn, and retreat, they usually served fewer than 40 people. Some were merely enlarged farmhouses, with cash-paying summer boarders adding to the farmer’s income and his wife and children doing the cooking and

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