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Showing posts with label Stage Coach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stage Coach. Show all posts

Monday, April 12, 2010

New York Athletic Club Stage Coach Accident Leads to Death of Pelham Manor Man

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In 1901, John R. Beecroft died following an accident involving the New York Athletic Club stage coach that ran between Pelham Manor Depot on the branch line and the club's facility on Travers Island.  I have written before about other members of the Beecroft

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

1879 Advertisement for Robert J. Vickery's City Island Stage Line, A Predecessor to the City Island Horse Railroad

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Those who follow the Historic Pelham Blog know that I have been trying to document the City Island horse railroad that once ran between Bartow Station and City Island.  See, e.g., Tue., March 2, 2010, 1901 Report Indicated that the Flynn Syndicate Planned to Buy

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A Stage Coach Line Established to Run Through Pelham Bridge in 1874

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I have written before about the stage coaches that once rumbled through Pelham.  See:

Monday, October 26, 2009:  Pelham Was a Principal Station on the Stage Coach Route of Dorance, Recide & Co. Which Carried Mail Between New York and Boston.

At least one

Monday, October 26, 2009

Pelham Was a Principal Station on the Stage Coach Route of Dorance, Recide & Co. Which Carried Mail Between New York and Boston

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It seems hard to grasp in this Internet age of instant communication, but mail between New York City and Boston once traveled by stage coach.  In the 1830s, stage coaches of Dorance, Recide & Co. ran the line which included a station stop in Pelham.  A long

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Brief Newspaper Account of the January 1, 1883 Annual Meeting of the Pelham Manor Protective Club

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Occasionally I have published to the Historic Pelham Blog information about the work of the Pelham Manor Protective Club first established in 1881 as a "Vigilance Committee" to oversee the health and welfare of Pelham Manor residents a decade before the