Rerouting Fifth Avenue in Pelham Beneath the New Haven Line Railroad Tracks in 1887

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A very brief item appeared in a July 1887 issue of The Chronicle of Mount Vernon, New York noting that work to reroute Fifth Avenue in Pelham to run beneath the New Haven Line Railroad Tracks was underway and likely would be completed by mid-August of that year.

Brief Report of August 29, 1904 Trolley Accident on Wolfs Lane

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On August 29, 1904, a trolley derailed at the corner of Wolfs Lane and East Third Street in Pelham.  One passenger suffered injuries.  A brief report of the accident appeared in the "Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the

A Little More Information About the Closure of the White Hotel

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Recently I provided a little information on the closure of the White Hotel in the late 19th century. See Thursday, March 12, 2009: The Reason the White Hotel Was Shut Down and Split from One Building Into Two Cottages. Today's posting to the Historic Pelham Blog

The Reason the White Hotel was Shut Down and Split from One Building Into Two Cottages

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.Two similar-looking buildings sit side-by-side at 303 Wolfs Lane and 307 Wolfs Lane. Their similarities are no coincidence. They once were part of the same building, the White Hotel.The White Hotel was a "hostelry" built in about 1870. By the late 1890s, New York