... Thus, when two teams of eleven women squared off for their big battle on November 14, 1896, on Prospect Hill in Pelham Manor, a tremendous crowd was on hand to enjoy the "spectacle." To the shock and delight of the crowd, however, the women played ...
... "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" ...
... Twenties. Bob Cremins , an exceptional multi-sport local athlete, was a big deal in local baseball. Born in Pelham Manor on February 15, 1906, Cremins batted left and threw as a lefty. He was 5 feet 11 inches tall and reportedly weigh ed 178 pounds ...
... Road l eading from Bartow Station to City Island; and (2) Pelhamdale Avenue that crossed the settlement of Pelham Manor and across a cor ner of what came to be know n as Pelham Heights. Wooden sidewalks were built. While logic dictates the money ra ...
... Hall of Fame on its Roll of Honor in 1946. At the time of his death in 1912, John T. Brush was a resident of Pelham Manor. Pel ham Manor , it turns out, has a long a nd storied history with the New York Giants of Major League Baseball. Ind eed, one ...
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.
On Monday evening, Board of Legislators Vice Chairman Jim Maisano New Rochelle, Pelham, Pelham Manor was joined by 14 of his fellow Legislators in passing a $9.54 million Bond Act to completely rehabilitate the pool at Playland Amusement Park. As a youth, Legislator Maisano competed in the Westchester County swimming championships at Playland and fondly remembered going on the Dragon Coaster and other rides with other swimmers following their competition.
The Beecroft Brothers, sons of John R. Beecroft who died in 1901, were a Pelham Manor institution in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. James, Chester, and Fred Beecroft grew up in Pelham Manor, roaming its rural countryside, swimming and fishing in its local waters, and playing baseball and other sports on its open fields.
... mile farther inland and thus lose the beautiful scenery along the Sound." The reporter must have alerted local Pelham Manor authorities of what he had observed. He reported that " right at this point, within a month, constables and a Justice of the ...
It is hard to imagine for the many, many Pelham Manor residents who live between Shore Road and the Branch Line railroad tracks that cross Pelhamdale Avenue at Trestle Field, but that area once was virtually pristine woods and meadows and was used by the New York Athletic Club to lay out a nationally-famous cross country course on which major cross country championship races were held. Indeed, a s noted before by Historic Pelham, "In 1903 and 1904, the large area of Pelham Manor bounded by Shore Road, the boundary with Pelham Bay Park in New York City, Pelhamdale Avenue and the railroad tracks along which Pelham Manor Station once stood looked very different than it does today.
It is hard to imagine for the many, many Pelham Manor residents who live between Shore Road and the Branch Line railroad tracks that cross Pelhamdale Avenue at Trestle Field, but that area once was virtually pristine woods and meadows and was used by the New York Athletic Club to lay out a nationally-famous cross country course on which major cross country championship races were held. Indeed, a s noted before by Historic Pelham, "In 1903 and 1904, the large area of Pelham Manor bounded by Shore Road, the boundary with Pelham Bay Park in New York City, Pelhamdale Avenue and the railroad tracks along which Pelham Manor Station once stood looked very different than it does today.
As the sport of baseball grew increasingly popular and became our "National Pastime" during the 19th century, Pelhamites played the game with gusto. As early as the 1860s until the end of the century, there were many "base ball clubs" founded on City Island and in Pelhamville and Pelham Manor.
... 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 ...