This Day in Pelham History

This Day in Pelham History
June 6

06/06/1893 - The Post Office in the Town of Pelham first established in 1849, then discontinued August 1860 and reestablished one month later, is "discontinued" again and mail to former patrons of the office is ordered sent to New Rochelle.

06/06/1896 - An act passed by the New York legislature establishing a new boundary line between Westchester County and today's Bronx County becomes effective, formalizing the annexation of southern portions of the Town of Pelham and the Town of Eastchester, as well as the entire incorporated village of Wakefield into Greater New York. The act reads in part as follows: "All that territory comprised within the limits of the towns of Westchester, Eastchester and Pelham, which has not been annexed to the city and county of New York at the time of the passage of this act, which lies southerly of a straight line drawn from the point where the northerly line of the city of New York meets the center line of the Bronx river, to the middle of the channel between Hunter's and Glen islands, in Long Island Sound, and all that territory lying within the incorporated limits of the village of Wakefield, which lies northerly of said line, with the inhabitants and estates therein, is hereby set off from the county of Westchester and annexed to, merged in and made part of the city and county of New York, and of the twenty-fourth ward of the said city and county, and shall hereafter constitute a part of the city and county of New York and of the twenty-fourth ward of said city and county, etc. etc." Interestingly, as pointed out by Tom Fenlon in his history of Pelham, "The area sometimes called Pelhamville was the only real hamlet remaining after the last 'taking' by New York City. Pelham Manor was incorporated as a Village in 1891, but at the time it had only one commercial building. It contained a general store and a branch post office. It was on one side of the Esplanade and the Huguenot Church manse on the other. There was no other store in the Village, and it could hardly qualify yet as a hamlet. . . ."

This Day in Pelham History June 6

This Day in Pelham History
June 6