Town Petition to Move the Pelhamville Depot in 1887

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Recently I wrote about the early efforts of citizens of Pelham to petition seeking a move of the New Haven Line train station in Pelhamville.  See Monday, April 19, 2010:  Early Talk of Moving the Pelhamville Train Station from its Original Location.  Today's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog provides more information about the efforts of the Town's citizen and transcribes their petition.

"It is also proposed to change the name of the station and post office to the euphonious one of 'Winyah Park.'  There are now in the town of Pelham, the following post offices:  Pelham, Pelham Manor and Pelhamville, and many letters are delayed in getting to their proper destination, and strangers get confused, in finding which Pelham they all desire to reach.

The following who signed this petition to the railroad company also signed the one forwarded to the Postmaster-General at Washington.

To the President and Board of Directors of the N.Y., N.H. & H.R.R. Co.:

GENTLEMEN:  We, the undersigned, residents of Pelhamville, N.Y., do humbly petition your honorable Board, to locate the new depot to be erected at this place, cast of and as near Fifth avenue as the grade will permit, on grounds given by Mr. Richard Lathers, as a park, and to change the name of the station from Pelhamville to Winyah Park.  Depotnot to be more than 100 feet from Fifth avenue:

E.H. Gurney, George McGalliard, Vincent Barker, Loftus Brotherton, Augustus Godfrey, C. W. Bolton, I.C. Hill, John T. Logan, James Shoebottom, John Bos, E. A. Paterson, J. P., Jacob Heisser, Stephen J. Stilwell, Wm. H. Penfield, Geo. Wright, Wm. Barry, Wm. H. Sparks, Chas. Barker, Henry Montgomery, F. W. Case, John Case, S. E. Case, David Lyon, E. Lyon, H. Gurney, Chas. B. Oakley, C. H. Merritt, G. W. Jager, E.C. Merritt, P.H. Acras, Alfred P. Delcambre, F. C. Buxton, Geo. Pearson, Alex Anderson, John Britten, Bridget Flanagan, Delia Flanagan, H. T. Stone, L. A. Stone, L. McGalliard, C. V. R. Bolton, D. J. Meade, Mrs. C. Barker, Miss Caroline Barker, Mrs. George Wright, Mrs. Fred. Case, Mrs. J. Bos, Mrs. S. Johnson, Mrs. M. Clark, Mrs. I.C. Hill, J. P. Marquand, T. Jackson Lambert, Wm. T. Standen, N. B. McGalliard. -- Mt. Vernon Record."

Source:  [Untitled], New Rochelle Pioneer, Jun. 26, 1887, p. ?, col. 5 (no page number printed on the newspaper page).

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