The tunnel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2005.

[3] The tunnel was built in 1871 by the New Jersey Midland Railway in order to cross the Wallkill Valley.

A flood in 2000 which caused two nearby dams to burst damaged the tunnel.

[4] The tunnel is a double stone arch design and is a 180 feet long.

The other arch which the Wallkill River flows through measures 20 wide and 16 feet tall.