Bushkill, Pennsylvania
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Bushkill is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Pike County,
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, United States. Portions of Bushkill were seized by the
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during the controversial Tocks Island Dam project and are now part of the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is a national recreation area administered by the National Park Service in northwest New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. It is centered around a stretch of the Delaware River designated the ...
. Bushkill's transportation options are somewhat limited. It is served by Monroe County Transit Authority's Yellow Line, and the Port Jervis Station just above the border of the
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and
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, where U.S. Route 209 enters New York. The station is the terminal station of
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's Port Jervis Line, and it is operated by
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. NJ Transit plans to reopen the East Stroudsburg Station in nearby East Stroudsburg.


Notable person

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Frank Schoonover Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 – September 1, 1972) was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware. A member of the Brandywine School, he was a contributing illustrator to magazines and did more than 5,000 paintin ...
- American artist who maintained a summer studio on Little Bushkill Creek


See also

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Camp Tamiment Tamiment, first known as Camp Tamiment, was an American resort located in the Pocono Mountains of Pike County, Pennsylvania, which existed from 1921 through 2005. Originally established by the Rand School of Social Science in New York City as ...
* Mont Lawn Camp


References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Pennsylvania