Plane Crash in Pelham in 1931

Pelham was enjoying the first day of summer in 1931. Indeed, it was a lovely day and a fine start to the summer. Pelham Manor police officer Bryan Smith was on duty and was near Red Church Corner (today's Four Corners). A large group of golfers ...

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Gray, Joan Blanchard

... in Mystic, CT at the Avalon Health Center. Joan was born in Englewood, NJ, on October 18, 1927, and grew up in Pelham Manor, NY. Her parents were George Kinson Blanchard and Beatrice Blanchard. She married William H. Gray on June 23, 1950, who ...

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The Nineteenth Century Stage Coach Presented to Local Boy Scouts by...

The event seems, at first blush, quite uneventful. In October, 1925, a local Boy Scout official approached a Pelham Manor resident whose husband recently had died and bought for the Boy Scouts an old stage coach that had belonged to the deceased.

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The Laying of the Foundation Stone at Prospect Hill School on Sunday, June 9, 1929

... and Washington avenues and Hudson street. It will accommodate the children living south of the Boston road in Pelham Manor. In dedicating the foundation stone, the Parent-Teacher Association, which is composed mainly of mothers of pupils in the ...

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Angelina Granucci, 87, Of New Rochelle, Worked For J.A. Naro Dress Co.

... Rochelle. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Pelham Manor. Interment will follow at St. Raymond's Cemetery.

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Important Report of the Opening of the Branch Line Through the Manor of Pelham in November 1873

An important development in the transportation history of the Town of Pelham was the opening in 1873 of the so-called Branch Line that included two new train stations in the Town of Pelham: Bartow Station near City Island along today's Shore Road and Pelham Manor Station that once stood at the end of the Esplanade near today's Manor Circle.

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Obituary and Photograph of R. Clifford Black, a Prominent Pelham...

R. Clifford Black, a son of Robert C. Black who was a founder of the Village of Pelham Manor, was a prominent resident of the Village of Pelham Manor in the early 20th century.

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