Notice of Auction Sale of Lots at Bartow-on-the-Sound in Pelham in 1874

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I have written extensively about "Bartow-on-the-Sound", a tiny hamlet carved from lands around the Bartow / City Island train station that once stood on the Branch Line not far from today's Pelham Bit Stables on Shore Road. See, e.g., Bell, Blake A., Bartow-on-the-Sound, Once a Hamlet in the Town of Pelham, The Pelham Weekly, Vol. XV, Issue 5, Feb. 3, 2006, p. 13, col.

In 1874, an auction notice announcing sale of lots in Bartow appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle. I have transcribed the text of the notice below, followed by a citation to its source.

"JERE. JOHNSON, JR., AUCTIONEER
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21 PARK ROW and 37 NASSAU STREET, N.Y.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14,
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On the Premises at
BARTOW,
PELHAM TOWNSHIP, WESTCHESTER COUNTY,
A NEW VILLAGE ON LINE OF
HARLEM BRANCH OF THE N. Y. AND N. H. R. R.
GRAND OPENING SALE AND FIRST CHOICE OF
300 SPLENDID LOTS

Around the New Depot. Water fronts on Pelham Bay, high lands overlooking the Sound, 53 minutes from business centres, and 7 miles from New York centre, with commutation less than stage fare. Free excursion, leaving New York at 10:45 A.M. Collation, Grafulia's Bank, Harrison, etc. Sale absolute. Maps, Tickets, etc., of JERE. JOHNSON, Jr., No. 21 Park Row, N. Y."

Source: Jere. Johnson, Jr., Auctioneer, Brooklyn Eagle, Sep. 11, 1874, p. 1.

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