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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Towns of Pelham and Eastchester Decide to Build a Drawbridge Across the Hutchinson River in 1873

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Just beyond the new Pelham Manor Shopping Plaza on the Pelham Parkway is a drawbridge.  The first effort to build a drawbridge on that site began in 1873 when the Towns of Pelham and Eastchester approved the expenditure of funds to build such a drawbridge.  A