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Showing posts with label Prospect Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prospect Hill. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Eight Illustrations Showing Views Of Pelham During the 1880s

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In 1887, John Mullaly published a book on the new parks being developed beyond the Harlem including the park known as Pelham Bay Park.  The lands in that area were, at the time, still within the Town of Pelham.  Mullaly's book included eight illustrations showing

Monday, February 4, 2008

Hurt Due to Bad Road on Prospect Hill in Pelham, Wagon Driver Sued Town of Pelham in 1883

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.During the 19th century, by nearly all accounts, the "roads" in Pelham were constantly in a state of disrepair. Typically they were little more than muddy, rutted and eroding pathways. One wagon driver who was badly hurt in an accident on Prospect Hill due to the