After visiting Bushkill Falls, I continued driving northeast, mainly along U.S. Route 209, and found my way to Port Jervis, New York. Within the city is Laurel Grove Cemetery, which occupies a peninsula between the Delaware and Neversink Rivers. Near the end of the peninsula are two monuments. One indicates the boundary between New York and New Jersey. The other marks the tripoint between those two states and Pennsylvania. This is one side of NY-NJ monument, looking eastward with the Neversink River in the background. The bridge above is part of Interstate 84.
Looking westward, this is the other side of the NY-NJ monument, with the Delaware River in the background.
The tripoint monument is vertically short, as seen from its north-facing side.
I was able to get a shot of the top, which includes a diagram showing the relative locations of the three states. You can see the abbreviation "PENN" upside down from this perspective. However, I'm pretty sure that the real tripoint is in the Delaware River.
This is the confluence of the Neversink (left) and Delaware (right) Rivers. The land on the left is in New Jersey. The trees on the right edge of the picture are in Pennsylvania. The ground that I stood on while taking this shot might be in New York.
Looking northward, this is a small section of Laurel Grove Cemetery.
The cemetery includes a few mausolea, such as this one. (My spellchecker has no problem with "mausolea", so it would appear to be an acceptable plural of "mausoleum".)
The cemetery's driveways had a speed limit of just 5 miles per hour, because they are used, not just by cars and their drivers, but also by people in wheelchairs. So if you ever visit this place, please go lightly on the accelerator.
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