Matamoras

MATAMORAS, 0.5 m. (868 alt., 1,784 pop.), a shaded resort town, roosts on a tableland above the river; stone cliffs, skimpily bearded with scrub pine, rise on the right. Permanent residents, mainly railroad men employed in Port Jervis, live in detached, white clapboard houses. The OLD STONE FORT (private), P and First Sts., a story-and-a-half structure, was built about 1740 by Simon Westfael, one of the earliest Dutch settlers.

Between Matamoras and Milford, the straight three-lane highway is flanked (L) by the placid Delaware River, greenish and wide, except where it narrows between hills, and (R) by mountains that occasionally extend rocky elbows over the road. Large estates and hunting lodges are hidden in the hills.