| When Lewis Barton Travis' parents decided to separate for a while circa 1907,
his mother took Lewis and his sister Marian to live at
Lake Nichecronk in Dingmans Ferry, PA where she held a job.
To reach their destination, they took the Train to Port Jervis, NY and stayed the night at the Erie Hotel located at 9 Jersey Ave next to the Erie Railroad Train Station, (both are still there and are in great condition). The next morning, they boarded the Hiawatha Stagecoach for their trip to a Hotel on Lake Nichecronk. They traveled south on Route 6 to Milford and turned left on Route 209 at the Dimmick Inn. Approximately one mile south of the Dimmick Inn they passed the home of the John Jacob Meyerdierks II family, where Margaret, the girl he would one day meet and marry back in Bergen County in 1925, would move into in 1918. When they reached Dingmans Ferry, they left the Hiawatha Stagecoach and had their luggage transferred to a horse-drawn BuckBoard wagon. They rode the BuckBoard on Route 739 up the side of mountain to Nichecronk Road, which led to the lake. It was an all-day trip than can now be traveled in 40 minutes at most. Two years later, his parents reconciled. They returned to Bergen County, NJ in the same manner they had arrived there. Coincidentally, the present owner of the Erie Hotel, Linda Culver Brinks, dated Lewis' grandson Jim Travis at Milford's Delaware Valley High School during the early 1970's. |
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