1876 Newspaper AdvertisementTouting Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Real Estate

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Today's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog presents an image, and transcribes the text, of an advertisement published in a New York City newspaper in 1876 touting real estate in the new development in lower Westchester County being constructed by the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association. At the end of this posting is a listing of recent postings about the Association. 

Here is an image of the advertisement, followed by a transcription of its text.



"BUYERS, RENTERS OR AGENTS PLEASE NOTICE.
AT PELHAM MANOR ON THE SOUND,
between two railroads (two depots on the premises), both for one commutation ($70 yearly); 40 trains; half hour to Grand Central; hour to Fulton slip; all desirable privileges; healthfulness assured; neighborhood first class; restrictions against nuisances; scenery attractive; fine drives, boating, fishing, &c.  New (Boston suburb style) Houses, with every convenience, furnace, bath, gas, sidewalks, handsome shade trees, &c. to be sold or let on favorable terms.  Price $4,000 to $10,000; or rent ten per cent thereon.  Come and see this favored suburb.  Views, excursions, &c. from STEPHENS BROTHERS, 187 Broadway."

Source:  [Untitled Advertisement], NY Herald, Apr. 23, 1876, p. 18, col. 2. 

What follows are examples of previous Blog postings that deal with the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010: Obituary of Charles J. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010: 1874 Newspaper Advertisement Touting Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Real Estate.

Monday, May 17, 2010: Jessup Family Members Tried in 1909 to Take Back Some of the Lands Conveyed to Form the Lands Developed by the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Friday, May 14, 2010: 1885 Article on Alleged Failure to Develop Pelham Manor Said the Development "At Best Resembles the Collapse of a Wild Cat Land Scheme."

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 1874 Evening Telegram Advertisement for Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Development.

Monday, March 2, 2009: 1884 Advertisement Placed by Charles J. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Offering Home for Rent.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006: Mystery: A Lawsuit Filed Against the Dissolved Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1915.

Monday, June 12, 2006: Early Deed of Land to the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006: Prospectus Issued by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1874.

Thursday, December 22, 2005: Area Planned for Development by The Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1873.

Monday, March 20, 2006: Charles J. Stephens and Henry C. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Monday, March 27, 2006: 1057 Esplanade: One of the Original Homes Built by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Monday, May 8, 2006: Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury Who Served as Engineer for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006: Horace Crosby, the Civil Engineer Who Laid Out the Chestnut Grove Division for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in the 1870s.

Friday, May 26, 2006: The 27th Conference on New York State History Will Include Presentation of Paper on Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

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City Island Horse Railroad Temporarily Shut Down in 1892 Over Cruelty Concerns

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I have been working on a history of the "horse railroad" that once ran in the Town of Pelham from Bartow Station to the end of City Island. Today's post adds additional research to the collection I have assembled so far. At the end of this post is a list of links to earlier postings on the topic.


Today's posting transcribes a newspaper article about the horse railroad that appeared in July 16, 1892 issue of The World. The article is transcribed in its entirety below.

"SO THE FISHERMEN SWORE.
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The Twelve Horses of the Pelham Park Railroad Tied Up.
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PASSENGERS FROM BARTOW TO BELDEN POINT WALKED.
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The Bergh Society Says the Animals Work Too Hard and, Like Them, the Road is Tied Up, Too -- The President of the Road Is Also Head of the Local Brnach of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Twenty fishermen sat on the platform at Bartow Station yesterday morning and whistled.  They had come out on the Harford and New Haven Railroad from New York for a day's sport on the Sound.  At Bartow Station the trains connect with a horse-car line running to City Island and Belden Point, the places nearest to the best fishing grounds on the Sound. 

The fishermen expected to find a car waiting as usual, but it was not there.  Half an hour passed and the whistle changed to a ragged chorus of profanity.  A bare-footed country boy came down the road, patting the dust with his feet.

He wore a torn straw hat, and had a stone bruise on his heel.  He looked about as if searching for something.  Seeing the crowd on the platform, he eyed them silently for a few moments and then yelled:

'I say, if you fellers is waiting for the cars yer might as well go back.  There won't be any cars.  The cops stopped them.'

He then went on his way, not replying to the questions hurled at him by the now thoroughly disgusted group. 

No car meant either to return to the city or to walk three miles under a broiling sun over a road on which the dust lay six inches deep.  Some concluded to have the fishing at all costs, and so trudged away to Belden Point.  The majority, however, concluded to return to town, and so, packing up their outfits, they took the next train to the city.

Inquiry at the offices of the company showed that the road was virtually tied up, the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, this city, having suspended most of the company's horses from work. 

The car line is known as the Pelham Park Railroad.  It has about six miles of track and is operated by twelve horses, one horse to a car.  Twenty-three round trips are made daily from Bartow Station to Belden Point.  It is the line over which all the Sound fishermen who go to Belden Point or City Island must travel.  It does a large business and often, particularly on Sunday, the cars are crowded. 

The Superintendent, F. Underhill, is a very young man, and bears his youth with all the dignity of old age.  He wears a flowing red mustache on his upper lip and a pair of darkened glass spectacles on his eyes.

'Yes,' he said, heaving a sigh, 'the society has just about tied us up.  We cannot carry out our contract with the railroad and make regular trips.' 

Supt. Hankinson, of the society, was not at all pleased to learn that his operations in Westchester County had become public, for he did not intend to make it so for several days.

'We have been receiving complaints against this road for some time past,' he said, 'and after investigating found that the horses were greatly overworked.  One horse was supposed to make two continuous trips hauling a heavy car after him.  The road runs over several hills, and the traffic being heavy, we concluded to stop abuse.

'Mr. Underhill was in my office to-day and I thold him that he must put on more horses.  A number have been suspended and I do not see how he can run his road with those he has left.  He can not do it." 

A large squad of the officers will make a descent on the road to-morrow, and it they find that the company is using the horses agaisnt orders, every man, from driver to president, will be arrested. 

A curious fact in connection with the affair is that W. R. Lambertson, the President of the Pelham Park road, is also President of the branch of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals located at Bartow, which society has no official connection with Mr. Hankinson's society.  Thus the chief officer of a society formed for the one purpose of protecting animals may be prosecuted for cruelty to the very animals which he should protect under the laws of the State.  As to-morrow is the great day for Sound fishermen there will be hundreds going to Bartow Station expecting to be carried over to the Sound."

Source:  So the Fishermen Swore, The World, July 16, 1892, p. 9, col. 8.

Thu., May 13, 2010: More on the Early History of the Pelham and City Island Railroad.

Tue., May 4, 2010: Questions Regarding the Trolley Franchise from Bartow Station to the Tip of City Island Arose in 1915.

Mon., May 3, 2010: Efforts To Reorganize the Operators of the City Island Horse Railroad and Monorail in 1914.

Fri., April 30, 2010: "Truly, An Illuminating Little Passage in the History of New-York!" - Efforts to Develop Shore Road Trolley Line in 1897.

Thu., April 29, 2010: City Islanders Complain and Force the Operators of Their Horse Railroad to Agree to Replace Antiquated Cars in 1908.

Wed., April 28, 2010: Efforts by the Pelham Park Horse Railroad to Expand and Develop a Trolley Car Line on Shore Road in 1897.

Tue., April 27, 2010: New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit Company Sued to Foreclose a Mortgage on the Horse Railroad in 1911.

Mon., April 26, 2010: Public Service Commission Couldn't Find Marshall's Corners in 1909.

Fri., March 5, 2010: Construction of the City Island Horse Railroad in 1887.

Thu., March 4, 2010: Beginnings of Horse Railroad - News from Pelham and City Island Published in 1884.

Wed., March 3, 2010: 1879 Advertisement for Robert J. Vickery's City Island Stage Line, A Predecessor to the City Island Horse Railroad.

Tue., March 2, 2010: 1901 Report Indicated that The Flynn Syndicate Planned to Buy the Pelham Bay Park & City Island Horse Car Line.

Mon., March 1, 2010: Flynn Syndicate Buys the City Island Horse Car Line in 1907 to Incorporate It Into Electric Trolley Line.

Fri., February 26, 2010: 1913 Decision of Public Service Commission to Allow Reorganization of City Island Horse Railroad for Electrification.

Thu., February 25, 2010: Photograph of Patrick Byrnes and Article About His Retirement of the City Island Horse Car in 1914.

Wed., February 24, 2010: Attempted Suicide of City Island's Long-Time Horse Car Driver

Wed., February 3, 2010: Early Information Published in 1885 About the Organization of the "City Island Railroad", a Horse Railroad from Bartow Station to City Island

Tue., February 2, 2010: Information About the Pelham Park Railroad at its Outset

Fri., January 22, 2010: 1884 Account of Early Origins of Horse Railroad Between Bartow Station and City Island

Tue., September 1, 2009: Pelham News on February 29, 1884 Including Talk of Constructing a New Horse Railroad from Bartow to City Island

Wed., December 2, 2009: Accident on Horse-Car of the Pelham Park Railroad Line in 1889

Thu., December 31, 2009: 1887 Election of the Board of Directors of The City Island and Pelham Park Horse Railroad Company

Mon., January 4, 2010: 1888 Local News Account Describes Altercation on the Horse Railroad Running from Bartow Station to City Island.
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Another Newspaper Account of The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

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I have written previously much about the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885.  For a few examples, see:

Monday, September 24, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Tuesday, September 25, 2007: More About the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Wednesday, September 26, 2007: The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885 Continued . . .

Thursday, September 27, 2007: Findings of the Coroner's Inquest That Followed the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Friday, December 21, 2007: 1886 Poem Representing Fictionalized Account of the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Wednesday, January 9, 2008: The Aftermath of the Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885

Bell, Blake A., The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885: "One of the Most Novel in the Records of Railroad Disasters, 80(1) The Westchester Historian, pp. 36-43 (2004).
Today's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog transcribes the text of a newspaper account of train wreck published in the December 28, 1885 issue of the Newark [Ohio] Daily Advocate.  The transcribed text is followed by a full citation to its source.

"DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.

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A Train Derailed by a Depot Platform.
Dead and Injured.

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., December 28. -- The train leaving New Haven bound west, known as the 'Big Owl,' met with a most singular accident at Pelhamville station, which resulted in the death of one of the train hands, the serious injury of another and  the general shaken up of all the people aboard the train. 

The train was speeding rapidly over the down grade between New Rochelle and Mount Vernon, and when opposite Pelhamville station the engine struck an obstruction on the track and went over an embankment, nearly sixty feet high.  The tender and mail car followed.  The other cars, composing the train did not leave the track, although two sleepers were thrown on their sides.  The mail car fell nearly on an end at the bottom of the bank.  The ball broke the coupling of the air brakes to be applied and the six passenger cars behind the mail car were stopped almost instantly. 

The obstruction on the track which caused the accident was the platform of the railway station, which had been torn from its foundation, and thrown across the track by the heavy wind which prevailed during the night.  The total loss to the railway com [sic] is about $10,000.  The following are the casualties.

Eugene Blake, fireman of this city, married a few months ago, killed.  C. P. Turner of Boston, mail clerk, severely hurt about the breast and back.  He was taken to the Grand Union hotel, New York.  The three other mail clerks on the train were all more or less bruised.  Engineer Ralph Phillips was badly hurt in the back.  Wm. Gamble, of Springfield, Mass., baggagemaster, was injured about the back, and had his shoulders strained.  The passengers, of whom there were comparatively few on the train, beyond a shaking up, were uninjured."


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After Annexation of Part of Pelham by New York City, Mount Vernon Barbers Avoided Sunday Blue Laws by Operating in the Remainder of Pelham

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When New York City annexed large portions of the Town of Pelham in the mid-1890s, it annexed City Island.  At the time of the annexation, most Town officials -- including law enforcement officials -- lived on City Island or in other areas annexed by New York City.

Good entrepreneurs that they were, Mount Vernon barbers sensed a business opportunity.  The so-called "Sunday law" of that time operated to prevent barbers from doing business on Sunday.  Pelham, however, was essentially without an enforcement mechanism.  Thus, Mount Vernon barbers and others took to calling the Town of Pelham "No Man's Land" and began setting up shop in saloons, back rooms, restaurants and hotels on Sundays and encouraged their regular customers to ride the trolleys to No Man's Land for a shave and a haircut. 

The newspaper "The World" learned of the arrangement and wrote a tongue-in-cheek story about the little backwoods Town of Pelham with its remaining "Pooh-Bah Constable" who did not have the time to enforce the Sunday law.  The text of that article appears in its entirety below.

"SHAVE AND TROLLEY RIDE.

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Go Together in Pelham, Which Has a Pooh-Bah Constable.

When the recent annexation act went into effect, that part of the town of Pelham wherein lived the town officials was gathered in by New York City.  The remainder is now know as No Man's Land.  Mount Vernon barbers against whom the Sunday law operates resolved to do busioness in No Man's Land.  Word was passed around among their customers that by taking a trip to No Man's Land on Sunday, a shave, shampoo, mustache curl and trolley ride from and to Mount Vernon could be had for 25 cents.  The barbers established themselves in saloon backrooms, restaurants and hotels last Sunday and did a rousing business.

James Burnett, who is town constable of the territory, said he was too busy to look after the law violators.  Burnett, as well as being Chief Constable, is County Game Constable, janitor of the Presbyterian Church, Street Commissioner of the Village of Pelham Manor, village policeman, janitor of the public school, street lamplighter for Pelham Manor and Pelham Heights, janitor of the Manor Club and Deputy Sheriff.  He expects shortly to run an express between New York and No Man's Land.  In the interval between his labors, he is studying law.  He says he will find time next Sunday to watch the Mount Vernon barbers."

Source:  Shave and Trolley Ride, The World, Feb 10, 1896. 

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New York Governor Thomas Dongan Addresses Licenses to Henry Cuyler and John Pell to Purchase Land from Indians in 1686

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In 1686, Governor of the Province of New York Thomas Dongan licensed John Pell to purchase from local Native Americans "all that tract or tracts" of land lying within the bounds of his Patent that were "not yet purchased of the said Indyan natives."  Below is the entry from the Provincial Secretary's records documenting the pronouncement of that license.

"[LICENSES TO HENRY CUYLER AND JOHN PELL TO PURCHASE LAND FROM INDIANS]

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By his Excellency the Governour

Whereas Mr. John Pell hath desired my liberty and lycence to purchase of the Indian natives all that tract or tracts of land lyeing and being within the bounds and Limits of his Patent that are not yet purchased of the said Indyan natives These may certifye that the said John Pell hath liberty and lycence granted him to purchase the said land beforemencioned Provided the said purchase be made before me and Councill at Newyorke and returne thereof made into the Secretaryes office before the first day of May next after the date hereof in order for the obtaining a Patent which is to be taken out the last day of June after the date hereof or otherwise this Lycence to be void and of none effect for which this shall be his warrant Given under may hand and seale at Fort James in Newyorke the Eight day of December 1686 and in the second yeare of his Majestyes Reigne."

Source:  Christoph, Peter R., The Dongan Papers, 1683-1688:  Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York During the Administration of Governor Thomas Dongan, pp. 63-64 (Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press 1996) (Vol. 2 of the Dongan Papers and Volume 35 of New York Historical Manuscripts Series). 

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John Pell Takes Oath of John Clarke of West Chester on May 15, 1676

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During the 1670s, John Pell served as a Justice in Westchester.  Among his duties was the taking of oaths.  Such an occasion occurred on May 15, 1676 when John Clarke "of West Chester" appeared before him to swear an oath regarding something that was said to him by Thomas Seabrook before his death.  The entire oath is quoted below, followed by a citation to its source.

"Testimony of John Clarke, of West Chester, (concerning Thomas Seabrook) aged 29 years:

This deponent saith That when there was an Alarm of Indyans being at Castle Hill, Loaden with Ammunition last summer, this deponent was then a sojourner in the house of Thomas Seabrooke, was commanded (among others) to go to Captain Osborne's housse.  And at his going away, he, the said Thomas Seabrook, took his wife (the now present widow Seabrook) by the hand in the Door as he was going out and said, 'Wife, I am going out, I know not but I may be knockt on the head.  If I never come again I give all that I have to thee' (meaning his wife).  And farther said to this deponent, 'Pray, take notice what I say,' and further saith not.

May 15, 1776.  Sworn before me, JOHN PELL."

Salter, Edwin, A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants.  The Indians:  Their Language, Manners and Customs, Important Historical Events.  The Revolutionary War, Battle of Monmouth, The War of the Rebellion.  Names of Officers and Men of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Engaged in It, etc., etc., p. lii (Bayonne, NJ:  F. Gardner & Son, 1890).

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The Announcement of President Abraham Lincoln's Assassination in Pelham, NY on April 15, 1865

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Hart Island, near City Island, once was part of the Town of Pelham.  During the latter part of the Civil War, Hart Island was used to house Confederate Prisoners of War.  There is an interesting published account of the announcement made to the Confederate prisoners on April 15, 1865 of President Abraham Linconln's assassination. 

In about the end of February, a regiment of the 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry, known as the Iron Brigage, was separated and detailed for guard duty at Confederate prisons in the north.  Captain Patrick DeLacy's regiment was ordered to Hart Island, in the Town of Pelham, New York, to guard nearly 4,000 Confederate prisoners of war. 

The account of the announcement of President Lincoln's murder is quoted below, followed by a citation to its source.

"Upon the night of the assassination of President Lincoln, Captain DeLacy was officer of the guard, and remained on duty until nine o'clock of the morning of April 15th, 1865.  Captain DeLacy, soon after sunrise on the forenoon of that sad day, was on his way to the officers' mess, and before he arrived there he heard the rumor that Lincoln had been shot, and after procuring a copy of the 'New York Herald,' he returned to the rebel camp, and with a young Confederate drummer boy, went to the middle of the prison campus and ordered him to beat the assembly, which aroused the camp, and soon he was surrounded by acres of men, and there on a box he announced the death of the nation's great War President, and read an account of the same from the columns of the newspaper, which he still keeps as a sacred memento of one of the most mournful events in American history.  After the Captain got through, there was a profound silence, which was not broken until a hand was raised and a Confederate in a loud voice shouted, 'Officer!  Officer!  We do not endorse assassination,' and at the same time up went the hands of thousands of rebel comrades.  Soon another with raised hand cried out, 'Officer!  Officer!  We have lost our best friend; Old Abe would forgive us,' and still another exclaimed, 'Officer!  Officer!  The North will now persecute us.'  To this the Captain responded, 'You my Confederate friend over their, do not for a single moment entertain the thought that the North will persecute you for the fiendish act of the lunatic, crank or assassin, whose wicked hand has struck down the sincere and humane friend of the South, Abraham Lincoln.'"

Source:  Jordan, John W., DeLACY, Captain Patrick, Distinguished Soldier, Honored Citizen in Encyclopedia of Pennsyvlvania Biography, Vol. III, p. 756 (NY, NY:  Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 1914). 

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Description of Early Baseball Game Played at Pelham Bridge in 1878

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I long have been intrigued by early references to baseball being played in Pelham.  At the end of this posting is a long list of earlier postings on the subject.

I have located yet another very early reference to baseball being played in Pelham.  In fact, it is more than a reference.  It is a nicely-detailed description of a baseball game played near the Arcularius Hotel at Pelham Bridge on June 19, 1878.  I have transcribed below the text of the article about the game that appeared in the Friday, June 28, 1878 issue of The Chronicle published in Mount Vernon, New York.

"Last Wednesday vehicles of all sorts were seen passing through Mt. Vernon, to and from Yonkers and it was impossible not to notice that many of the Yonkerites who filled these vehicles were heavy weights.  It seems that they went to Arcularius's, at Pelham Bridge, for a game of base ball.  Col. Joseph L. Proseus and Col. Matt H. Ellis were chosen captains and they selected eleven men each to assist them.  They began at 10 A.M., and at 4 P.M. had played three innings.  In the first inning, Col. Proseus's side made 32 runs, but Col. Ellis's made 36.  In the second inning, both sides fell off considerably, Col. Proseu's men making only 11 and Col. Ellis's 13.  The game now stood 48 to 49.  Col. P's men now made a grand rally and scored 37 runs.  In vain did Col. E. urge on his men to the scratch.  They scored but 14 and were ignominiously vanquished.  We regret that our limited space prevents a full report, but take pleasure in concluding with the remark that the chivalrous bearing of the victors and the quiet submission of the vanquished were worthy of the grandest days of knight errantry."

Source:  [Untitled], The Chronicle [Mount Vernon, NY], Jun. 28, 1878, p. ?, col. 3 (no page number printed on the newspaper page).

Below are other postings to early baseball references involving games played in and around Pelham.

Tue., March 9, 2010:  Earliest Reference Yet to Organized Baseball Played in Pelham.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010:  Photograph of Only Known 19th Century Women's Baseball Team in Pelham, New York.

Thursday, January 28, 2010:  News About Pelham Manor and Pelhamville in 1895 - Lighting Districts, Gas for the Village, Baseball and More.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009:  Baseball Games Played by the City Island Beldenites and the City Island Rivals in 1884. 

Monday, December 14, 2009:  Baseball Games Played by the City Island Shamrocks in 1889. 

Friday, December 11, 2009:  Earliest Reference Yet to Baseball Played in Pelham. 

Thursday, December 10, 2009:  More 19th Century Baseball and Firefighting References.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009:  City Island Shamrocks Base Ball Club Changed its Name to the Minnefords in 1888.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009:  Even More Early References to Baseball Played in Pelham.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009:  Yet Another Reference to Early Baseball in Pelham.

Monday, November 23, 2009:  Additional Brief Accounts of Baseball Played in Pelham in the 19th Century.

Friday, November 20, 2009:  More Accounts of Early Baseball Played in Pelham.

Friday, November 13, 2009:  1894 Account of Developments in Pelham Including a Reference to a Baseball Game Played that Year.

Thursday, November 12, 2009:  More Early References to Baseball Played in Pelham.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009:  Score of June 1, 1887 Baseball Game Between the Country Club and The Knickerbocker Club.

Friday, March 20, 2009:  Another Reference to 19th Century Baseball in Pelham.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008:  Another Brief Reference to 19th Century Baseball in Pelham.

Monday, November 26, 2007: Box Score of a Baseball Game Played on Travers Island in Pelham Manor in July 1896.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007: Baseball on Travers Island During the Summer of 1897.

Friday, July 20, 2007: Account of Early Baseball in Pelham: Pelham vs. the New York Athletic Club on Travers Island in 1897

Friday, November 10, 2006: The Location of Another Early Baseball Field in Pelham

Monday, October 9, 2006: Reminiscences of Val Miller Shed Light on Late 19th Century Baseball in Pelham and the Early Development of the Village of North Pelham

Thursday, March 23, 2006: Baseball Fields Opened on the Grounds of the Westchester Country Club in Pelham on April 4, 1884

Tuesday, January 31, 2006: Another Account of Baseball Played in Pelham in the 1880s Is Uncovered

Thursday, October 6, 2005: Does This Photograph Show Members of the "Pelham Manor Junior Base Ball Team"?

Thursday, September 15, 2005: Newspaper Item Published in 1942 Sheds Light on Baseball in 19th Century Pelham

Thursday, February 10, 2005: New Discoveries Regarding Baseball in 19th Century Pelham

Bell, Blake A., Baseball in Late 19th Century Pelham, The Pelham Weekly, Vol. XIII, No. 17, Apr. 23, 2004, p. 8, col. 2.

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Obituary of Charles J. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

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Regular readers know that for years I have researched the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association and its involvement in the development that became much of the Village of Pelham Manor.  See the end of this post for a listing of recent postings on the topic.

Two of the most important founders of the Association were brothers:  Charles J. and Henry C. Stephens.  I previously have written about these two brothers.  See Mon., March 20, 2006:  Charles J. Stephens and Henry C. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Today's posting transcribes a very brief obituary of Charles J. Stephens published in 1891.  It reveals a sad end to his life.  He died of dysentery while traveling in Mexico to collect information for a book he was writing.

"Charles J. Stephens died in the city of Mexico on Sunday [August 9, 1891].  He and his brother laid out Pelham Manor.  He had travelled [sic] extensively through South America, Cuba, and Central America, and at the time of his death was collecting material for an illustrated work on Central America.  He died at the Iturbide Hotel of dysentery.  He was born in Port Henry, and was 56 years old.  He resided in Pelham fifteen years.  For the past year or so he lived with his family at 163 West 12th street.  He leaves a wife and four children."

Source:  Obituary, The Sun [New York, NY], Aug. 12, 1891, p. 2, col. 6.

What follows are examples of previous Blog postings that deal with the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Tue., May 18, 2010:  1874 Newspaper Advertisement Touting Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Real Estate.

Mon., May 17, 2010:  Jessup Family Members Tried in 1909 to Take Back Some of the Lands Conveyed to Form the Lands Developed by the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Fri., May 14, 2010:  1885 Article on Alleged Failure to Develop Pelham Manor Said the Development "At Best Resembles the Collapse of a Wild Cat Land Scheme."

Wed., November 11, 2009:  1874 Evening Telegram Advertisement for Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Development.

Monday, March 2, 2009:  1884 Advertisement Placed by Charles J. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Offering Home for Rent.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006:  Mystery:  A Lawsuit Filed Against the Dissolved Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1915.

Monday, June 12, 2006:  Early Deed of Land to the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006: Prospectus Issued by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1874

Thursday, December 22, 2005: Area Planned for Development by The Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1873

Monday, March 20, 2006: Charles J. Stephens and Henry C. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Monday, March 27, 2006: 1057 Esplanade: One of the Original Homes Built by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Monday, May 8, 2006: Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury Who Served as Engineer for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Wednesday, May 10, 2006: Horace Crosby, the Civil Engineer Who Laid Out the Chestnut Grove Division for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in the 1870s

Friday, May 26, 2006: The 27th Conference on New York State History Will Include Presentation of Paper on Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

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1874 Newspaper Advertisement Touting Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association Real Estate

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Today's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog presents an image, and transcribes the text, of an advertisement published in a New York City newspaper in 1874 touting the benefits of purchasing lots from the new development in lower Westchester County being constructed by the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.  At the end of this posting is a listing of recent postings about the Association.

Here is an image of the advertisement, followed by a transcription of its text.

"PELHAM MANOR --AND-- HUGUENOT HEIGHTS, Midway Between Mt. Vernon and New Rochelle.

EIGHT MILES only from the Territorial CENTER OF NEW YORK CITY.

A NEW AND DELIGHTFUL SUBURB!

UNSURPASSED in NEIGHBORHOOD and HEALTHFULNESS.  Noted for its Natural Beauty, Picturesque Water and Inland Views, and offering unusual advantages in accessibility from the

Business Centres of the Great Metropolis.
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RAPID TRANSIT NOW SECURED BY
Two Railroads and Thirty-six Trains Daily, TO BOTH CENTRAL AND LOWER NEW YORK.

THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT, via New Haven Railroad.
ONE HOUR ONLY FROM WALL STREET, via Express Boats on the East River and the Harlem Reiver Branch Railroad.

ONE COMMUTATION TICKET good on BOTH ROUTES.
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THE PROPERTY OF THE Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association Comprises 500 acres, (nearly one mile square), extending from the main line of the New Haven Railroad to Long Island Sound, of which three divisions, viz--
'PLEASANT RIDGE,' GLEN MITCHELL,' and 'CHESTNUT GROVE,'
(in the order named, commencing on the north, aggregating about 170 acres, have been topographically plotted and the grading of the avenues thereon is rapidly going forward.

The ATTENTION of ALL invited to the many CHOICE PLOTS, varying in size from three city lots to as many or more acres, now for sale by us at LOW PRICES and on LIBERAL TERMS.

EXCURSIONS from New York office to Manor and Heights every pleasant afternoon.  Apply for maps, &c., to

STEPHENS BROTHERS & CO.,
Managers, No. 187 Broadway, N.Y."

Source:  Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights [Advertisement], Evening Telegram [New York], Nov. 3, 1874, p. 3, col. 2.

What follows are examples of previous Blog postings that deal with the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Mon., May 17, 2010:  Jessup Family Members Tried in 1909 to Take Back Some of the Lands Conveyed to Form the Lands Developed by the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association.

Fri., May 14, 2010:  1885 Article on Alleged Failure to Develop Pelham Manor Said the Development "At Best Resembles the Collapse of a Wild Cat Land Scheme."

Wed., November 11, 2009:  1874 Evening Telegram Advertisement for Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Development.

Monday, March 2, 2009:  1884 Advertisement Placed by Charles J. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association Offering Home for Rent.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006:  Mystery:  A Lawsuit Filed Against the Dissolved Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1915.

Monday, June 12, 2006:  Early Deed of Land to the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006: Prospectus Issued by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1874

Thursday, December 22, 2005: Area Planned for Development by The Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1873

Monday, March 20, 2006: Charles J. Stephens and Henry C. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Monday, March 27, 2006: 1057 Esplanade: One of the Original Homes Built by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Monday, May 8, 2006: Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury Who Served as Engineer for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Wednesday, May 10, 2006: Horace Crosby, the Civil Engineer Who Laid Out the Chestnut Grove Division for the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in the 1870s

Friday, May 26, 2006: The 27th Conference on New York State History Will Include Presentation of Paper on Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site
Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/.
Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings