Instead of giving up, Minot got into the cab and drove the train himself to Goshen, then all the way to Port Jervis, hours ahead of schedule.
[3] Minot's way of communication was a first for the railroad industry at the time, which prompted a monument to be erected in 1912 along with a large ceremony, with many notable people attending such as the Erie president Frederick Underwood, Mrs. Harriman and more.
In the 1980's, the bronze tablet on the monument was briefly removed by Conrail for "preservation purposes" but placed back after community backlash.
Main Article: Harriman Station (Erie Railroad) In 1838, Peter Turner had constructed a large, extravagant train depot named the Orange Hotel.
[5] It sat along the train tracks for the New York & Erie Railroad and was a fairly popular place for people to stop.
Due to a lack of fire suppression equipment in the surrounding area, it was unable to be extinguished and the building completely collapsed within half an hour.
[7] The village was severely divided on this manner, with one church putting up a banner reading "LONG LIVE TURNER."
Presently, the former railroad from River Road, Harriman to East Main Street, Middletown has been converted into a 19.5 mile long shared-use path named the Heritage Trail.
In the meantime, village services were moved to the back portion of a closed school just a little down North Main Street.
Baptist, LDS, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, other Christian, Eastern, and Islam make up the remainder of the religious percentage.
Harriman is part of the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District,[13] with most of the children in the town attend either Sapphire or Smith Clove which covers kindergarten through first grade.
Once E.H. died, Mary made a proposal to the Governor that she would make a donation of 10,000 acres and $1 million for the establishment of a new state park.
The state must stop the plan to build the prison with $2.5 million to gain more land and construct park facilities.
By 1913, Major William A. Welch began constructing the road from Bear Mountain to Sloatsburg, which is known today as Seven Lakes Drive.
This is a shopping center located in Central Valley, New York, which is only 5 minutes from Harriman when traveling north on route 17.
they have a Dial-A-Ride bus service along with The Main Line, which runs daily and follows the path of the Erie Railroad from Woodbury Commons to Middletown, making a stop in Harriman.
[15] Harriman station on the Metro-North Railroad's commuter rail Port Jervis Line is to the southeast, off Route 17.
An older stop on Grove Street in the village downtown served the Erie Railroad main line until 1983.