This Day in Pelham History
August 20

08/20/1643 - Anne Hutchinson and most of her family are massacred during an Indian uprising.  John Throckmorton and others who settled with him on what came to be known as Throg's Neck flee the area.

08/20/1891 - A development map for a restricted residential neighborhood to be known as Chester Park in the northern tip of today's Village of Pelham is filed and recorded in the Index of Maps, in the Office of the Register, Westchester County, White Plains.  

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