Our community has so much to offer and is only a 28 minute train ride to Grand Central Station.

• Pelham is the oldest town in Westchester County. The Town celebrated it’s 350th anniversary year in 2004, commemorating Thomas Pell’s signing of a treaty in 1654 with the Siwanoy Indians. The purchase included not only what now is the Town pf Pelham but also all of today’s Borough of the Bronx, the land along Long Island Sound north to the Rye border and inland to the Bronx River. It is named “Pelham” in honor of Pell’s tutor, Pelham Burton.

 

• Thomas Pell’s nephew, Sir john Pell, was the first of the Pells to live at Pelham manor. He inherited the land in 1670.

 

• During the American Revolution, the Battle of Pelham was fought along Split Rock Road and Wolfs Lane on October 18, 1776. Col. (later General) John GLover led a small force of Americans who fought a delaying action against a large force of British and German tropps. Col. Glover and his men delayed the enemy long enough to permit George Washington and his troops to escape from Manhattan to White Plains to fight another day. The Joshua Pell House, built about 1760, is still standing today at 145 Shore Road. Another Pell house, which has been remodelled byt he Hay family in 1820 and renamed Pelhamdale, still stands at 45 Iden Avenue.

 

• The Town of Pelham was incorporated by the State Legislature on March 7, 1788, and at that time included all of City Island and what is now Pelham BayPark east of the Hutchinson RIver. In 1895, the Town of Pelham was reduced to its current area. Three Villages were incorporated within the town–the Village of Pelham Manor in 1891 and two others, the village of North Pelham and the Village of Pelham, in 1896. In 1975, the Villages of North Pelham and Pelham (also known as Pelham Heights) merged to form the present Village of Pelham.