Port Jervis, New York and Related Area Photographs
“STEPHEN CRANE’S POND – Here at the home of his brother Edmund the author of The Red Badge of Courage lived and wrote in the early 1890s.” Text from historical marker.
Located in Sullivan County’s Town of Forestburgh, the pond’s water still spilling over today’s dam once powered a sawmill and served as a source for harvesting ice. Both of those income producing uses were employed by Stephen’s favorite brother, Edmund, who was also an agent of the Port Jervis, Monticello and New York Railroad here at its Hartwood Station. Their brother, Port Jervis attorney, William Crane, and a partner purchased a large tract of property of which this is part and what continues to be the exclusive Hartwood Club. Stephen’s first notable series of newspaper stories took inspiration from this area and are collectively called “Sullivan County Tales and Sketches.”
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