<P> On June 2, 1892, Robert Lewis, an African American, was lynched, hanged on Main Street in Port Jervis by a mob after being accused of participation in an assault on a white woman . A grand jury indicted nine people in connection with the lynching . Some literary critics think this even may have inspired Stephen Crane's 1898 novella The Monster; Crane lived in Port Jervis for a time . </P> <P> In the mid-1920s some residents in the area formed a Ku Klux Klan chapter, in the period of the KKK's early 20th - century revival . They burned crosses on Point Peter, the mountain peak that overlooks the city . </P> <P> The city's location at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink rivers has made it subject to occasional flooding . There was flooding during the 1955 Hurricane Diane, and a flood - related rumor started a panic in the population . This incident was studied and a 1958 report issued by the National Research Council: "The Effects of a Threatening Rumor on a Disaster - Stricken Community". </P> <P> In addition to the rivers having flooded during periods of heavy rainfall, at times ice jams have effectively dammed the Delaware, also causing flooding . In 1875 ice floes destroyed the bridge to Matamoras, Pennsylvania . In 1981 a large ice floe resulted in the highest water crest measured to date at the National Weather Service's Matamoras river gauge 26.6 feet (8.1 m). </P>

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