1. Site of the First Town Hall of the Town of Pelham - Shore Road and City Island
Avenue near today's New York City stables (Small brick meeting hall was
built in 1858 and was razed in 1955)
2. Site of James Francis Secor Residence - West side of Wolf's Lane
between Post Road and Secor Lane (Part of the 113-acre Secor family farm
between the Hutchinson River and the Esplanade)
3. Site of Taft School for Boys Before Relocation to Watertown, CT -
964 Pelhamdale Avenue (School for boys founded in Pelham Manor in
mid-1880's by the brother of President William Howard Taft, Horace D.
Taft, which relocated to Watertown, CT in the 1890's)
4. Mrs. Hazen's School - Along the Esplanade on land on the Boston
Post Road between the Esplanade and Edgewood Avenue (Well-known girls'
preparatory school started by Mrs. Emily Hazen from The Masters School
in Dobbs Ferry; popularly known as Pelham Hall)
5. William H. Blymyer Residence - Southern end of Roosevelt Avenue
overlooking the Sound and Shore (Blymyer was an attorney).
6. Site of the Lyon Homestead - Colonial Avenue and Wolf's Lane (Now
the site of the Town of Pelham Library which previously was the First
Church of Christ)
7. Site of the
Pell Treaty Oak - Grounds of the Bartow-Pell Mansion near
the Shore Road (Where tradition has it that small group of Englishmen
including Thomas Pell met Siwanoy Indian representatives on November 11,
1654 and signed a treaty acquiring title to 50,000 acres including
today's Pelham)
8. Site of the "Shrubbery" - Split Rock Road and Boston Post Road
(Built by Joshua Pell, Grandson of Thomas Pell, in 1740 and purchased by
Aaron Burr for his wife, Theodosia, in 1782; destroyed by fire in 1890s)
9. Old Split Rock Road, Site of the Battle of Pelham
- Much of the old Split Rock Road is now on the grounds of the Pelham
and Split Rock Golf Course operated by the City of New York in
present-day Pelham Bay Park. The heaviest fighting of the Battle of
Pelham on October 18, 1776 occurred along this road.
10. Site Where British Cannonball Fired During Battle of Pelham Was
Discovered in Backyard in 1976 - 931 Washington Avenue
11. Joshua Pell Home (aka
the Kemble House) - This is the home where Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
spent some childhood
summers. It is also is believed to be the earliest or one of the
earliest Pell homes still standing in Pelham. It is located at 145
Shore Road, next to the Texaco gas station at the corner of Pelhamdale Avenue
and Shore Road. The home was built about 1760 by Sir John Pell's grandson,
Joshua Pell, and was intended to be the home of Joshua Pell II; it is one of
two pre-Revolutionary War homes still standing in Pelham Manor, the
other being Pelhamdale.
12. City Island, Also Known as Minnefords Island, New City Island,
Island City, Great Island and the Isle of Man (Part of original land
grant to Thomas Pell and part of the Town of Pelham until it was annexed
by New York City in 1895-96)
13. Hart Island, Also Known as Little Minnefords Island and Spectacle
Island - East of City Island
14. Bartow-Pell Mansion (Between Shore Road and the Long Island
Sound in Pelham Bay Park) - The Bartow-Pell Mansion is a Greek Revival mansion built
between 1836 and 1842. The home originally was in the Town of
Pelham but passed into possession of New York City in 1888. It is
the only remaining example of a large number of grand mansion homes that
were built in the area by wealthy merchants. The International
Garden Club leased property in 1914 and restored the mansion for use as
its headquarters.
15. Bartow-Pell Mansion
Carriage House (Near the Bartow-Pell Mansion Between Shore Road and
the Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park) - The Bartow-Pell Mansion
Carriage House is said by the City of New York Parks & Recreation
Department to be the "only unaltered masonry structure of its type and
age still standing in New York City. The building dates to the
original construction of the mansion around 1842. It housed the
hayloft; storage for coaches, sleighs and other vehicles used on the
estate; and a small tack room that doubled as a home for the stableboy.
Three stories tall, the Carriage House was built into an artificially
created hillside giving the appearance of a smaller one-and-a-half-story
building when viewed from the front. It remains the only extant
outbuilding of the once large Bartow estate, and complements the nearby
Bartow-Pell Mansion in architectural scale and composition.
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977, the building was
restored in 1993 and is open to the public from April through October."
16. Site of the Thomas Pell Treaty Oak -
(See Note Above - This link takes you to an article about the Pell
Treaty Oak). Located just inside the
driveway entrance to the Bartow-Pell Mansion, to the right about thirty
yards into the woods as you enter the estate from the Shore Road. The
site is now marked only by a high circular iron fence that stood around
the tree in the last years of its life. The fence is in disrepair.
Legend has it that Thomas Pell signed a treaty on this spot with the Siwanoys in November 1654 and purchased 9,166 acres of land that
included what we now know as the Bronx, the Pelhams and everything
between Long Island Sound and the Hutchinson River north to Mamaroneck.
17. The Pell Family Graveyard -
The graveyard is located down a footpath southeast of the Bartow-Pell mansion.
18. Hunter Island, Also Known as Appleby's Island, and the Twins -
Now the parking lot of Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park and the property
east of the parking lot (Hunter Mansion, built on the Island about 1812,
was a great showplace and was visited in 1839 by Martin Van Buren; along
with City Island and the land that now forms Pelham Bay Park, the Island
was annexed by New York City in June 1895; in 1937, water between
Hunter's Island and land opposite City Island Bridge was filled, so the
Island became a peninsula that was subsequently developed into Orchard
Beach and its picnic grounds and parking areas; the Hunter Mansion was
dismantled the same year).
19. Four Corners Shopping Center - Pelhamdale Ave. at Colonial
(Opened in late 1920s with Daniel Reeves grocery store, A&P, Grand
Union, Belmont Cleaners, Manor Pharmacy and The Amy Ackerman School of
Dancing)
20. Site of four-story apartment building - Post Road where Getty
Station now located (Was razed in late 1930s and was almost a tenement;
barber shop on second floor and Doc's Candy Store in basement)
21. Site of Pelhamdale Service Center, also known as Hopkins' Garage
- East side of Pelhamdale Next to Railroad Tracks where park is now
located (Razed in 1952, was popular with the area's earliest motorists)
22. Parish of Christ the Redeemer - Pelhamdale Avenue and Shore Road
(Cornerstone for Christ Church laid April 28, 1843 by Rev. Robert Bolton
at the corner of his estate and Church was consecrated September 23,
1843; Rev. Bolton's daughters, Nanette and Adele Bolton, later
established missionary services in Pelhamville -- which essentially
became North Pelham -- and these became the Church of Christ the
Redeemer; the two churches combined as the Parish of Christ the Redeemer
in 1974)
23. First Stained Glass Window Made in America: "The Adoration of the
Magi" - In Bolton Chapel of the Parish of Christ the Redeemer, Pelhamdale Avenue at Shore Road (Created by William Jay Bolton and John
Bolton, sons of Rev. Robert Bolton)
24. Site of Building Where William Jay Bolton and John Bolton
Pioneered the Creation of Stained Glass Windows in America - On Shore
Road just east of New Rochelle City Line
25. Bolton Priory (Priory Lane)
- Bolton Priory is Gothic-style home of Rev. Robert Bolton built in 1838
and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is
located at 7 Priory Lane. Yellow bricks above the doorway form the
date 1838 and were cemented into place by noted author Washington
Irving; The Armory, a large room in center of home, served as The Priory
School for Girls which was operated from 1854 until 1881 by Nanette
Bolton and, some say, was the first "fashionable boarding school for
girls in New York State."
26. Bolton Priory Stables - 10 Priory Lane (Built in 1985 to serve as
stables for the Bolton Priory; remodelled and turned into a private
residence in 1957 and 1958).
27. Pelhamdale (The Old Stone House by the Bridge) - 45 Iden Avenue,
west of Carol Place (Home of Colonel David Pell built about 1752 as a
colonial farmhouse and now listed on the National Register of Historic
Places; heavily remodeled in the 1820s and redesigned as a Greek-Revival
style mansion by the Hay family, then renovated again by the Coudert
family in 1950s; Hay family coat of arms incorporated in north wall of
building; one of two Pre-Revolutionary War homes remaining in Pelham
Manor.
28. The Manor Club - Esplanade (Original Manor Club house was built
in 1887-88 on site of present clubhouse; the Manor Club combined the old
Manor Club which was a family recreational club and the Tuesday
Afternoon Club which was a study club for women; present clubhouse built
in 1922)
29. Boston Post Road - Roadway began about 1672 from the Battery at
the tip of Manhattan to Boston, Massachusetts. On July 9 1772, the first
stage coach from New York City to Boston traveled this road. For many
years the so-called Post Rider carried mail in saddlebags on horseback
between New York and Boston. Riders took one month to make the
roundtrip.
30. Hutchinson's River - This river was known by the Indians as "Aqueouncke".
It runs between New Rochelle and Eastchester, Pelham and Mount Vernon.
It is named after Anne Hutchinson who was massacred along with most of
her family by the Siwanoys in 1643.
31. St. Paul's Church - On South Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, the
Boston Post Road originally passed by the Church. The building was
commenced in 1760 near the site of a previous wooden church built in
1700. This building was completed after the Revolutionary War. It served
as a field hospital for the British after the Battle of Pell's Point.
There is a mass grave for Hessians killed in the battle at the rear of
the Churchyard cemetery.
32. "Glover's Camp" - There is an athletic field north of Sandford
Boulevard East, Mount Vernon, reads, "On the adjacent hillside Glover's
Brigade encamped Oct. 17, 1776, engaging in the Battle of Pelham Manor
the following day."
