But some visitors are spending the night — and discovering underappreciated ruins, a growing range of outdoor activities, newly opened cafes and a destination hotel that are turning the sleepy village into more than a one-track town.
Each end-of-track town in its turn became the terminus for many of the cart trains.
In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the group, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, said the county had neither tracked towns' efforts to bring in housing for lower-income people nor penalized those that did nothing.
A less frantic method of tracking the town's history is to take the brief, undemanding tours of several of its exemplary dwellings and public buildings.
Then there was the ballot proposal to hire an administrator, who would have been responsible for personnel decisions and tracking the town's finances, duties now entrusted to the supervisor.
A bike trail on old railroad tracks, running through town and for miles along the Delaware, brings cyclists who line up outside the local hangout, the Frenchtown Cafe, for breakfast.
"What we have here is a horse race, and in this contest Comcast owns the racetrack, in fact, the only track in town.
The record makes its first dive into darkness on the fourth track, "Lonely Town," a slow, hymnlike ballad for trio.
Nowhere are they treated with such reverence and panache as at the Indianapolis Speedrome, a small track across town from the far larger, more famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Twenty minutes later, on a dirt track outside town, I point to a large dog that's watching us from a bluff.
