Port Jervis Free Library

Port Jervis Free Library is located at 138 Pike St in Port Jervis and has been in the business of Public Library since 1892.

Library HistoryOne of the most important local legacies of the Gilded Age is the Carnegie Library that still stands at 138 Pike Street. There has been a library in Port Jervis since about 1835, when state legislation allowed for the creation of school district libraries. Efforts to enhance the library began in 1848 along with the creation of the Port Jervis Literary Association in 1865, whose...