Pelham, New York
Westchester County
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Pelham is a city at the southern tip of the Westchester County in the U.S. state of New York. It is immediately adjacent to the Bronx, New York, is 2.2 square miles ( 5.7 km ²) in size and had in 2000 a population of 11,866, of which 87.33 % White. In the urban area there are two villages, Pelham Pelham Manor in the center and the south. It is named after a certain Pelham Burton.
History
Pelham is the oldest city in Westchester County. Its foundation dates back to a contract of 1654, after which the physician Thomas Pell a resident Indian tribe has bought the land between the Bronx River and the present territory of Rye and called his teacher Pelham Pelham Burton honor. Until the American War of Independence the place alone the Pell family served as the residence.
On October 18, 1776 battle between British and Americans took place in the church today the area after William Howe in mid-October was landed there with British- Hessian units. The battle is to be classified in the context of taking New York by the British in October 1776.
On March 7, 1788 was officially founded on Pell's land the city Pelham. In 1895 she was reduced to the current urban area, and the area south-west of its borders New York City slammed. On the remaining area remaining three towns, North Pelham, Pelham and Pelham Manor. 1975 North Pelham was incorporated into Pelham.
The name Pelham is still preserved on the New York side in the name of some neighborhoods and a metro line.
Transport links
Pelham is touched by two highways. Interstate 95 runs south and east by the municipality around, runs to the west of the Hutchinson River Parkway north.
Parallel to Interstate 95 run the tracks of the North -East corridor. The New Haven Line of Metro-North Railroad runs from west to east through the middle of the municipality and directly through the town of Pelham, before it joins the north in the North - East corridor. The station Pelham is located in the same town on the New Haven Line. It is served by local trains towards New Haven and Grand Central Station. Both routes were once part of the network of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
About 500 meters north of the New Haven Line ran 1912-1937 the tracks of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway. The rapid transit operated on Pelham area two stations, Fifth Avenue and Pelhamwood. After the bankruptcy of the railway tracks and stations were dismantled. The embankment was built over time with houses; the bridge over the High Brook Avenue is still preserved.
- Town in New York
- Place in North America
- Westchester County