Prospect Hill Landowners Face Loss of Their Properties in1900 Due to Allegedly Defective Deeds

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I recently ran across an odd, yet interesting, little item published in 1900.  It indicates that heirs of a landowner who once owned the Prospect Hill area of today's Pelham Manor planned in 1900 to file suit to recover the entire area under a theory that the

19th and Early 20th Century Newspaper Notices Relating to the Prospect Hill Village Association

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Prospect Hill Village was one of the two principal real estate developments from which today's Village of Pelham Manor evolved. The other, of course, was the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association organized on June 3, 1873 by Silas H. Witherbee, Henry C.

Windsor Heights, an Area South and East of Prospect Hill Village, Sold to Developer in 1921

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.In 1921, a brief item appeared in The New York Times announcing that a developer had acquired eighty-four lots in the Windsor Heights section of Pelham Manor, an area south and east of the development once known as Prospect Hill Village. The Windsor Heights area had

A Reference to Voluntary Dissolution Proceedings Involving the Prospect Hill Village Association Instituted in 1906

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Occasionally, I have written about the Prospect Hill Village Association that developed portions of Prospect Hill now located in today's Village of Pelham Manor. See, e.g.:Wednesday, March 30, 2005: Prospect Hill Village -- Yet Another Early Hamlet Within the Town of

1855 Tax Collection Notice for Pelhamville and Prospect Hill Village

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Two small hamlets were developed in Pelham at essentially the same time in the early 1850s: Prospect Hill Village and Pelhamville. New York City land speculators snapped up lots in both the tiny developments. In fact, so many New York City residents owned lots in