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.
... did little to hamper our major transportation arteries. . . . One such accident occurred on Boston Post Road in Pelham Manor on the evening of Wednesday, June 20, 1906. The accident occurred on the roadway roughly where today's Our Lady of Perpetual ...
... 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 ...
Today there is a very short stretch of roadway at the end of Pelhamdale Avenue parallel to Long Island Sound that runs a few hundred yards within Pelham Manor known as Shore Road. Shore Road continues into Pelham Bay Park, once part of the Town of Pelham, to Pelham Bridge and beyond.
In the early years after the founding of the New York Athletic Club facility on Travers Island in 1888, whenever a major event was held on the island all of Pelham buzzed with activity. Trains rolled into and out of the Pelhamville station on the New Haven Main Line and the Pelham Manor depot on the Branch Line.
... tried to be first to reach the designated suburban destination. It was time for a change. It turns out that the Pelham Manor area and Pelham Bay Park played a role in that change. In October, 1901, the chairman of the Runs and Tours Committee, Mr. ...
... Haven Branch Line railroad overpass where a few homes stood on Manor Circle adjacent to the railroad tracks and Pelham Manor Depot. Old growth woods lined both sides of the roadway. With no streetlights, the towering trees made the roadway ...
... City region. Among the areas considered, of course, was a portion of today's Pelham Bay Park adjacent to the Pelham Manor border and even extending into a portion of Pelham Manor. See Mon., Sep. 28, 2015: Pelham Manor Narrowly Avoided Becoming Part ...
... of the proposal in the late 1920s to construct the world's largest airport across the Hutchinson River from Pelham Manor and to build an associated dirigibles landing field on sixty acres of Pelham Manor land to be annexed by New York City. See ...
... Court on the Same Site Overlooking Pelham Country Club . In 1925, more construction occurred on the Village of Pelham Manor than ever before in its history. Planned construction of the Hutchinson River Parkway was well underway. Developments along ...
When most think of the inventor of the telephone and the phono graph, most think of Thomas Alva Edison. Pelhamites, however, think of Pelham Manor resident Ezra Torrence Gilliland who actually assisted Edison in the creation and improvement of both inventions.
... in school buildings. Its four rooms were ample to accommodate the students of Pelham Heights and a portion of Pelham Manor. With the construction of the Siwanoy School the Colonial school shared the educational work, and as the school children grew ...
... occasions. For a few examples, see : Thu., Apr. 21, 2016: St. Louis Newspaper Described the "Exclusivity" of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Fri., Nov. 27, 2015: Detailed and Fascinating Description of the Village of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Tue., Apr. 28, ...
... that such a system would not suffice. Moreover, other nearby communities including the settlements known as Pelham Manor and Pelhamville were also beginning to look for a larger, more-reliable water source. To make matters worse, in 1886 the area ...
... all of Pelham grew increasingly concerned with the quality of the water sourced from Pelham Reservoir. As Pelham Manor, Pelham, and North Pelham worked on finding alternative water sources, construction began on the new Hutchinson River Parkway that ...
... Turnpike and Post Road, otherwise known as the section of today's Boston Post Road that passes through Pelham Manor, was a toll road. Other bridges and highways in the county required tolls as well. The people of Westchester were not happy about it. ...
Recently I wrote about a pair of lawsuits brought by George H. Reynolds, President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pelham Manor Protective Club, in 1883 against Town of Pelham Supervisor James Hyatt and the Westchester County Board of Supervisors to stop a tax levy against Town of Pelham residents to fund construction of a new City Island Bridge. See Mon., Jun. 05, 2017: For Once, Pelham Manor Mainlanders Told City Islanders "No" in 1883 .
Ogden Philip Pell was a son of Stephen Sneden Pell and a grandson of Revolutionary War hero David Jones Pell who once owned the Pell farmhouse now incorporated into the home known today as Pelhamdale at 45 Iden Avenue and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He spent his youth in Pelham, but left and became a very successful man.
... the side of the roadway away from Long Island Sound. The hill is just past the low spot on Shore Road near the Pelham Manor boundary at the small cove often referenced as "Plum Cove" where a small creek sometimes called "Roosevelt Creek" still ...
The intersection of Boston Post Road and Pelhamdale Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor is a historic place. Long known as "Red Church Corner" because of the little wooden red church that once stood there and as "Four Corners," the intersection long has been the busiest in the Village of Pelham Manor.