... "The Country Club at Westchester," the organization was begun in the Autumn of 1883. At that time a group of Pelham Manor residents led by James M. Waterbury joined with a group of New York City "club men" and organized a new "Country Club" ...
When the Pelham Community Rowing Association held the ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of its beautiful new boathouse on Glen Island on October 27, 2009, Pelhamites were continuing nearly a 120-year tradition of supporting the sport of rowing in the waters off the shores of Pelham. Among the first structures built on Travers Island by the New York Athletic Club when it opened its summer home in Pelham Manor in 1888 was a series of boat houses used to store, among other things, rowing shells used for training, racing, and recreation.
... July of that year was a grandiose and expensive scheme centered on the Orchard Beach Lagoon off the shores of Pelham Manor and Pelham Bay Park. The plan was to create a perfectly calm and well-regulated racing course by building massive causeways at ...