An odd advertisement appeared in New York City's The Evening Telegraph on September 25, 1876. It advertised an upcoming auction sale of land and houses in Pelham Manor by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.
In late 1892 and early 1893, before the incorporation of the Village of North Pelham and the adjacent Village of Pelham , residents of the area north of the newly-incorporated Village of Pelham Manor agitated to form a modern volunteer fire fighting unit to fight fires in Pelhamville and the area we know today as Pelham Heights. Under recently enacted New York State laws, the taxpayers of Pelhamville and Pelham Heights prepared a petition signed by more than half the resident taxpayers in that part of the town asking for the " authority to organize a fire department in that portion of said town lying north of the old Boston Post Road, and to be known as the Pelhamville fire department."
... a site for the club's second home. The committee settled on an idyllic and beautiful island off the shore of Pelham Manor that was, at the time, attached to the mainland only by a simple, narrow causeway. At the time, the island was most frequently ...
... January 1, 2010 through February 28, 2015, the defendant, who was the Controller of the Pelham Country Club in Pelham Manor, New York, systematically embezzled funds for over five years. She drew and negotiated checks from the bank account of Pelham ...
A large home known as "The Shrubbery" once stood along Split Rock Road in Pelham Manor. The home once was owned briefly by Aaron Burr, Revolutionary War hero and third Vice President of the United States before he infamously shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804.
The origins of the Village of Pelham Manor can be traced back to March 2, 1866, when a newspaper notice announced an intent to incorporate the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad. The railroad was intended to run parallel to Long Island Sound to open up to development a vast section including the Pelham shoreline from Pelham Bridge to New Rochelle.
... little trolley shuttled back and forth, at that time, between the Pelham Station on the New Haven Line and the Pelham Manor Station on the New Haven Branch Line. In 1909, the rattletrap trolley click-clacked along tracks laid on Wolfs Lane to ...