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The Hamlet of East Branch is nested at the confluence of the East Branch of the Delaware River and the Beaver Kill. The hamlet was originally called "Beaverkill," after the river. The first settlers here were Samuel Davis and his family who settled here in 1791. East Branch was reached by a forerunner of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway (the 'O&W') in the early 1870's, which opened up new markets to the hamlet and the southern Catskill Mountains as a whole. Villages and hamlets, like East Branch, became popular with summer vacationists from the big city. Hotels and boarding houses, such as the Hotel Delaware in East Branch, opened up and thrived for a time. Trains of the Delaware & Eastern Railroad (D&E) began operating to East Branch not long after the last spike was driven November 17, 1906. The D&E, and its sucessor the Delaware & Northern Railroad (D&N), interchanged freight here with the O&W and also shared the East Branch Station.
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