Recent Posts Tagged With 'recreation'

• Yet Another Reference to Early Baseball in Pelham

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 04:05 in baseball, yachting, recreation, city island, ships, hell gate pilots, 1884, muffers baseball club, beldonites baseball club

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. For the last several days I have been posting references to early instances of baseball being played in Pelham....

• More Accounts of Early Baseball Played in Pelham

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 04:09 in baseball, recreation, city island, 1884, john brady, rivals baseball club, george boster, muffers baseball club, beldonites baseball club

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. I continue to document every reference I find about baseball played in Pelham during the 19th century.  For so...

• 1894 Account of Developments In Pelham Including a Reference to a Baseball Game Played that Year

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 06:40 in baseball, black family, recreation, arbor day, 1894, christ church, pelhamville, mrs. hazen's school for girls, manor club, william b. lyon, pelham fire department

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. In yesterday's Blog posting, I collected numerous accounts of baseball played in Pelham during the 19th century....

• More Early References to Baseball Played in Pelham

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 06:16 in Fishing, baseball, recreation, city island, clam, pelham bridge, pelhamville, 1884, john elliot, union chapel, bartow association

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. I continue to document every reference I find about baseball played in Pelham during the 19th century.  For...

• Score of June 1, 1887 Baseball Game Between The Country Club and The Knickerbocker Club

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 15:43 in baseball, tennis, recreation, the country club, bartow on the sound, 1887, knickerbockers

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. Regular readers of the Historic Pelham Blog know that I have tried to document every reference I find about base...

• Preparations for Annual Country Club Race Ball Held in Pelham in 1887

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:28 in Horses, recreation, the country club, bartow on the sound, 1887

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. The Country Club that opened in Pelham in 1884 was the site of many Steeplechase and other horse races.  Members ...

• Article About the June 10, 1888 Opening of Travers Island Facility of the New York Athletic Club

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 06:42 in recreation, 1888, new york athletic club, travers island, jennings s. cox, william r. travers, r.w. rathbone, otto ruhl, eugene h. pomeroy, walter g. schuyler

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. The New York Athletic Club opened its Travers Island facility in Pelham Manor on June 10, 1888.  A brief article a...

• Pelham Country Club Secures Land for New Golf Course in 1904

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 06:45 in Golf, recreation, 1904, pelham country club, t.l. jaques, wykagyl country club

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site. Located at http://www.historicpelham.com. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. There was another "Pelham Country Club" that pre-dated the club now known by that name.  The first Pelh...

• Failed Efforts in 1900 to Build a Golf Course on Hunter\'s Island Rather than in Pelham Bay Park

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 07:02 in Golf, recreation, 1900, hunter's island, pelham bay park, pelham bay golf course

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. Today's Pelham Split Rock Golf Club, consisting of the Pelham Bay Golf Course and the Split Rock Golf Course, s...

• 1878 Account of Results of Sloop Race Held Off the Pelham Shores

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 06:40 in yachting, recreation, city island, rodman's neck, pelham neck, pell family, 1878

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. Few in Pelham today realize how strong a maritime tradition Pelham once had.  Situated on Long Island Sound with ...

• Manager of Pelham Manor Golf Links Committed Suicide Over Debt to Club in 1899

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 07:17 in Golf, suicide, recreation, gun, 1899, pelham manor golf club, frederick b. russell

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/.  Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. A sad article appeared in the December 7, 1899 issue of The New York Times.  It recounted the suicide of Frede...

• Death of the Captain of William B. Astor\'s Yacht in Pelham on October 8, 1888

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 07:46 in yachting, recreation, masons, 1888, william b. astor, samuel freestone, pelham lodge no. 712 f. and a.m.

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. William B. Astor, Jr. (July 12, 1830 - April 25, 1897) was a grandson of John Jacob Astor.  He inherited a substa...

• The Famed "California Ramblers" and the "Ramblers Inn" that Once Stood on Shore Road

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 06:39 in recreation, shore road, 1922, roadhouses, pell tree inn, california ramblers inn, hollywood gardens, richard l. morris, ramblers inn

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. Yesterday I received an inquiry regarding the location of the "Ramblers Inn" that once stood along Shore ...

• Film of the Westchester Model Club, Inc.\'s Model Railroad in the Pelham Manor Depot Before its Demolition

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 08:26 in recreation, harlem river and portchester railroad, pelham manor depot, 1950, the westchester model club inc.

  Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web Site Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/. Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings. During the 1920s, six men in New Rochelle whose spouses objected to their model train sets taking up too much spac...

• 1877 Account of Competition for DePeyster Medal at the Glen Drake Range in Pelhamville

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 03:46 in recreation, Courts, gun, justice of the peace, constable, pelhamville, 1877, glen-drake range

• 1950 Article Mentions Model Railroading Club That Used Pelham Manor Depot

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 03:56 in recreation, village of pelham manor, harlem river and portchester railroad, pelham manor depot, 1950, pelham manor, model railroad club

• Only Known Image of the Glen-Drake Rifle Range Near Pelhamville

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 04:07 in recreation, gun, military service, pelhamville, 1874, glen-drake range, george c. starr

• A Brief History of the Early Years of "Riding to Hounds" by Members of the Country Club at Pelham

  Posted on Friday April 17th, 2009 at 03:47 in sports, recreation, 1885, fox hunting, charles pelham-clinton, drag hunt, theodore havemeyer jr., james m. waterbury, riding to hounds

• More About the Country Club Sport of "Riding to Hounds" During the 1880s in Pelham

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 03:43 in sports, recreation, the country club, fox hunting, 1888, drag hunt, riding to hounds

• 1889 Account of the Sport of Riding to Hounds by Members of the Country Club Located in Pelham

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 03:35 in sports, recreation, the country club, fox hunting, 1889, charles pelham-clinton

• 1897 Photograph of Visitors Streaming to Athletic Outing on Travers Island in Pelham Manor

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 03:32 in bicycles, recreation, new york athletic club, 1897

• Another Reference to 19th Century Baseball in Pelham

  Posted on Friday March 20th, 2009 at 03:36 in baseball, recreation, the country club, 1884, knickerbockers, william binninger

• More on the Early Efforts To Develop the First Nine Holes of the First Pelham Bay Golf Course

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 03:19 in Golf, recreation, 1900, new york athletic club, pelham bay park, pelham bay golf course, daniel ulrich, laurence e. van etten

• Pelham Women Stage Benefit for the "Summer School for Children" in 1900

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 03:33 in charity, recreation, 1900, manor club, pelham home for children, pelham summer school

• Another Brief Account of Golf at Pelham Manor in 1895

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 03:45 in sports, Golf, recreation, 1895, mrs. jabish holmes, mrs. john cunningham hazen, pelhamville park, pelham manor golf club, mrs. robert c. black, mrs. frank hunter

• "Ladies' Day" on Travers Island in Pelham Manor in 1894

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 03:28 in recreation, 1894, new york athletic club, ladies day, tercentennial celebration

• Boys and Girls of Pelham Manor Work to Contribute to the Fresh-Air Fund in 1888

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 03:40 in charity, recreation, strawberry, 1888, fresh-air fund, e.b. du mond, the tribune fresh-air fund

• The Old Hunter House Burns to the Ground in an Arson Incident on Travers Island on April 4, 1889

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 03:49 in fire, recreation, new york athletic club, travers island, 1889

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  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 03:32 in recreation, 1888, new york athletic club, travers island

• The New York Athletic Club Opens its New Clubhouse on Travers Island in Pelham in 1888

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 03:22 in recreation, 1888, new york athletic club, travers island