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Grand Gorge note recalls railroad history
By Peter Huntoon
Lee Lofthus was surprised and delighted to win this gorgeous note in the 2018 Heritage FUN sale from a small unincorporated hamlet within Roxbury Township on the west edge of the Catskill Mountains in New York state.
Grand Gorge is situated in a wide gentle valley through which Bear Kill flows southward toward its junction with the East Branch of the Delaware River. The town was named for the Grand Gorge Rail Station, which in turn was named for a 40-foot or so deep railroad cut through a nearby hill along what became the Ulster & Delaware Railroad