Care must be taken in the review of 18th century Pelham records that reference Philip Pell. There were three successive Philip Pells, each prominent in the history of the Manor of Pelham and, later, the Town of Pelham.
Happy Evacuation Day dear Pelham. Today is the 233rd anniversary of the original Evacuation Day on November 25, 1783 when British troops departed Manhattan at the close of the Revolutionary War and George Washington, his staff, and troops made a triumphal entry into New York City before cheering throngs of ecstatic Americans.
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.