About The Author

Peter Osborne has been the full-time executive director of the Minisink Valley Historical Society for twenty-five years and was the historian for the City of Port Jervis for the fourteen. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey having majored in American history. He has long been interested in preserving the Upper Delaware River's heritage, is a community activist and has written extensively about the region's history. He has received the Tri-State Chamber of Commerce's Citizen of the Year Award and the Upper Delaware Heritage Alliance's Merit and Repeat Offender awards.

Osborne was involved with the restoration of the Port Jervis Erie Depot an 1892 building listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Port Jervis Erie Turntable and Fort Decker, a 1793 stone house museum. In addition to his work at the society he has served on the board of directors of the Orange County Historical Society and the Pinchot Institute for Conservation. He is married to Janis Osborne who is the editor of the weekly newspaper, TheGazette in Port Jervis, New York.

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Date Last Revised: 06/17/2004