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Zane Grey ' s former home is now a museum .
Roebling Bridge , a one-lane oddity that resembles some kind of ancient wooden bobsled run before they invented curves . The truth of it is even stranger than that fiction . The Roebling Bridge was built between 1847 and 1851 to carry water across water . It allowed the old Delaware & Hudson Canal to cross the Delaware River without the sort of disruptions to commerce and occasional gunplay that could result if logs floated down the river by timber companies blocked the canal boats . John A . Roebling designed the structure before going on , more famously , to design the Brooklyn Bridge with his son , Washington .
Near the west end of the Roebling Bridge is another unlikely landmark , the Zane Grey Museum . Grey , one of the most popular and wealthy authors of his era , wrote millions of words in the form of novels of the Old West , other books and magazine articles while living here . The stately house in these eastern woodlands seems an odd setting for writing westerns , but its spacious porch certainly is a fine spot to write something . And Grey enjoyed walking down his front lawn to some fine fishing .