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August 20, 2009

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Trolley tracks once criss-crossed the Town of Pelham and connected the Town with the entire New York metropolitan area.  A report published in 1918 detailed, among other things, trolley lines in the Public Service Commission First District owned by The Westchester Electric Railroad Company.  Among those lines were those located in the three Villages within the Town of Pelham:  the Village of North Pelham, the Village of Pelham and the Village of Pelham Manor.

The information below appeared in a set of five columns entitled as follows:

"ROAD OR BRANCH, PRINCIPAL STREETS TRAVERSED AND TERMINI
Road
Second track
Sidings and turnouts
All running track

IN VILLAGE OF PELHAM:

Wolf's lane, N. Pelham line to Colonial avenue.... .567 .... ---- .... ---- .... .567 .... ----


E. Third street, Mt. Vernon line to Wolf's lane.... .122 .... ---- .... ---- .... .122 .... ----


Colonial avenue, Pelham line to Pelhamdale avenue.... .266 .... .266 .... .012 .... .544 .... ----

IN VILLAGE OF NORTH PELHAM

Fifth avenue, Pelham line to Mayflower avenue.... .851 .... ---- .... .037 .... .888 .... ----

Fifth avenue, Mayflower avenue to Hutchinson river.... .181 .... ---- .... ---- .... .181 .... ----

Fourth street, Mt. Vernon line to Eighth avenue 14 .... .340 .... ---- .... ---- .... .340 .... ----
[Footnote 14 reads:  "14 Unused by respondent."]

Fourth street, Eighth avenue to New Rochelle line 14 .... .138 .... ---- .... ---- .... .138 .... ----
[Footnote 14 reads:  "14 Unused by respondent."]

IN VILLAGE OF PELHAM MANOR

Pelhamdale avenue, Colonial avenue to Shore road .... 1.462 .... .471 .... .062 ..... 1.995 .... ----

Boston turnpike, Pelhamdale avenue to Pelham town line .... .376 .... .376 .... ---- .... .752 .... ----

Boston turnpike (formerly town of Pelham) .... .023 .... .023 .... ---- .... .046 .... ----"

Source:  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York One Hundred and Forty-First Session 1918, Vol. V. No. 9, Part 2, p. 1000 (Albany, NY:  J. B. Lyon Company, Printers 1918).

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