Brief History of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Established in Pelham in 1852

... of course, is a good thing. At about the same time, members of the Bolton Family who lived in the Priory at Pelham Manor and who had built Christ Church there were vying for the souls of City Islanders as well. Beginning in about 1849, Adele Bolton, ...
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More on the History of the Police Booth at Four Corners in Pelham Manor

This summer, Eagle Scout candidate Matthew Spana conducted an Eagle Scout Project to revitalize Pelham Manor's Park on Boston Post Road between the Esplanade and Pelhamdale Avenue, including the historical Police Booth that stands at Boston Post Road and Pelhamdale Avenue. Donations from The Pelham Preservation & Garden Society, DETCO, and others helped fund the project.
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Rye, Rye Brook, Port Chester Asked To Reduce Watering Due To Drought

... ystem, are not directly impacted by the request. That includes residents in Bronxville, Tuckahoe, North Pelham, Pelham Manor, Ardsley, Hastings-on-Hudson and Dobbs Ferry.
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Pelham Manor Residents Complained of Awful Service on the Toonerville Trolley Line as Early as 1899

On August 8, 1909, Fontaine Fox made a now-famous trip on the little trolley line that once ran from Pelham Station down Wolfs Lane, onto Colonial Avenue and then Pelhamdale Avenue to a stop near the railroad bridge of the New Haven Branch Line. As he later affirmed in letters, newspaper and magazine interviews, and conversations, Fontaine Fox was inspired by his ride on the Pelham Manor trolley line to create the "Toonerville Trolley" and its bearded "Skipper," a central tenet of his wildly-successful comic strip "Toonerville Folks" that he syndicated and that ran in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States for fifty years.
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Notable 1903 and 1904 Cross-Country Championships Were Run on a...

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. The area was virtually undeveloped with heavy woods.
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Origins of the Country Club at Pelham and the Move to its New Clubhouse in 1890

In late 1883, a group of Pelham Manor residents and New York City "club men" organized a new "Country Club" in Pelham Manor dedicated to the enjoyment of all "legitimate sports." By 1884, the Club commenced operations on a 34-acre tract between Shore Road and the Long Island Sound with a club headquarters in the Italian Villa-style mansion known as "Oakshade" built some forty years earlier by well-known Hudson River School artist David Lydig Suydam.
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The Pelham Industrial School Established in 1884 by a Daughter of...

... a property on Pelham Road in the area once known as DeVeau Town. DeVeau Town was the area along Pelham Road at Pelham Manor's border with New Rochelle. Mrs. Hoyt fitted out the property to serve as a small "industrial school" for boys and girls. ...
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