Скачать или смотреть LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY, Port Jervis NY: Whispers Under Stone: A Slow Drive To the Delaware River

The car moves slowly through the iron gates of Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port Jervis — a place born in 1855 / 1856 under the vision of Dr. John Conkling, charted by Howard Daniels and B. F. Hathaway.

The rolling grounds were meant not just for mourning, but for walking, reflecting, pausing amid the tombs and evergreens. Above each path, trees murmur with age. Many of the original forest evergreens remain. Even in historical notices, the cemetery was praised for preserving the forest’s mood—only two deciduous trees once stood among “handsome monuments.”

As wheels roll past stone markers and mausoleums, it dawns that this place holds more than names. Charles St. John, a U.S. Representative, rests here.

William E. McCormick, a local leader and legislator, lies here as well.

Francis Marvin, another U.S. Congress member tied to Port Jervis, is among the prominent interments.

And Julia Dean, a 19th‑century stage actress, found her final rest here.

The drive slows near the Tri‑State Monument at the cemetery’s edge — that narrow tongue of land where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania converge between the Delaware and Neversink Rivers. One foot on a copper bolt, the curious may stand in three states at once.

From there the road descends toward the Delaware River. The river glimmers under late light. The hush grows deeper. One hears echoes of carriage rides, of Victorian visitors strolling in these quiet lanes generations ago.

This drive is not about speed, but about letting stone and water speak. About noticing the slope of a tomb, the tilt of a crypt, the way a headstone’s inscription catches the dying sun. About stepping into that space between life and memory, and riding through it gently.

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