Created By: Visit Port Jervis
This is the site of the lynching of Robert Lewis in 1892. Stephen Crane's The Monster is a novella based on the lynching. He based the fictional town of Whilomville, the setting of a number of short stories, on Port Jervis. There is a memorial for Robert Lewis at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Port Jervis East End Tour
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