Halfway Brook

There was still no good way to travel on land in 1828. Whether you walked or rode a horse, the roads were rough and through the wilderness.
Whether by foot, horseback, canal or all three, Doctor Perkins left Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1829, and managed to arrive in Lumberland, where he would be the only physician [...]

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In 1798 when it was created, the Town of Lumberland was a rugged wilderness with 300,000 acres of continuous forests, interspersed with ponds, lakes and streams. The brooks and streams flowed into the Delaware River, which was the southwest border between New York and Pennsylvania.
A number of sawmills were built on the streams which flowed [...]

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