. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . ial,and, after an interesting run of four miles and a half, weenter the far-famed town of Goshen (from New York 59|- miles, from Dunkirk 400^miles). This is the first incorporated town we havereached, and, with Newburgh, is the half-shire of thecounty. It is by fame, if not in point of fact, the greate
. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . ial,and, after an interesting run of four miles and a half, weenter the far-famed town of Goshen (from New York 59|- miles, from Dunkirk 400^miles). This is the first incorporated town we havereached, and, with Newburgh, is the half-shire of thecounty. It is by fame, if not in point of fact, the greatestdepot of milk and butter, its brand being known through-out the world. The town is situated in the very centerof the county, was settled in 1712, and incorporated in1809. The approach from the east is very beautiful, asthe road reveals a glimpse of the public square, neatchurches, and public buildings interspersed with enter the southern suburbs, and pass through the mainbusiness street, at the west end of which is the traveler, stepping back into this spacious street, findshimself at once in the center of a bustling, thriving town— 46 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE large hotels, extensive stores, and crowds of country wag-ons showing the current of business done here. A walk. to the public square will show, too, that the Gosheniteshave great taste and style in the houses of the quieter por-tion of the town. The only dark feature in the aspect ofGoshen is the colony of negroes to be found in its southernand western precincts, and who evidently live in a stateof squalor and idleness not to be surpassed in any South-ern city. They seem as though ruled out of the whitecircles ; the men looking idle and dissipated, and the wom-en filthy and abandoned. Let any one saunter round thatlocality on some warm day, and the swarms of these crea-tures visible will prove the truth of what is here said ofthem. No community along the Erie Rail-road has been morebenefited than Goshen
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