Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay

Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay

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Publication Date: 2nd November 1998

Discover the history of the Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay community's early residents and its place in an ever-changing America.


First settled in 1643, Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay lies along the west bank of Eastchester Bay in the Bronx. It was once an area of grand estates and farms and was home to some of the wealthiest people in America, including Collis P. Huntington and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay offers a unique glimpse into the past, through carefully preserved images and a thoroughly researched text. The images in this volume cover all of the co... Read More

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Discover the history of the Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay community's early residents and its place in an ever-changing America.


First settled in 1643, Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay lies along the west bank of Eastchester Bay in the Bronx. It was once an area of grand estates and farms and was home to some of the wealthiest people in America, including Collis P. Huntington and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay offers a unique glimpse into the past, through carefully preserved images and a thoroughly researched text. The images in this volume cover all of the co... Read More

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Discover the history of the Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay community's early residents and its place in an ever-changing America.


First settled in 1643, Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay lies along the west bank of Eastchester Bay in the Bronx. It was once an area of grand estates and farms and was home to some of the wealthiest people in America, including Collis P. Huntington and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay offers a unique glimpse into the past, through carefully preserved images and a thoroughly researched text. The images in this volume cover all of the communities included in the charter granted to John Throckmorton by the Dutch in 1642.

Called Vriedlandt or "Land of Peace" by Dutch authorities, the area eventually fell prey to the burdens of war during the American Revolution. The images in Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay depict all aspects of life, from work to play. View the early modes of transportation used by the residents, the schools and churches they attended, the homes they lived in, and the activities they enjoyed. Readers will delight in the memories of yesteryear and the images of a young and undaunted America.

Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 2nd November 1998
  • State: New York
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738500133
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Author Bio
Bill Twomey is one of the most well-known Bronx historians. He began writing the history of the borough for the Bronx Times Reporter in 1983 and is the author of Arcadia Publishing's Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay, East Bronx, and South Bronx. Thomas X. Casey, a Riverdale resident, is also a frequent Bronx history lecturer and has the largest collection of Bronx postcards with more than 5,000 unique images.

Discover the history of the Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay community's early residents and its place in an ever-changing America.


First settled in 1643, Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay lies along the west bank of Eastchester Bay in the Bronx. It was once an area of grand estates and farms and was home to some of the wealthiest people in America, including Collis P. Huntington and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay offers a unique glimpse into the past, through carefully preserved images and a thoroughly researched text. The images in this volume cover all of the communities included in the charter granted to John Throckmorton by the Dutch in 1642.

Called Vriedlandt or "Land of Peace" by Dutch authorities, the area eventually fell prey to the burdens of war during the American Revolution. The images in Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay depict all aspects of life, from work to play. View the early modes of transportation used by the residents, the schools and churches they attended, the homes they lived in, and the activities they enjoyed. Readers will delight in the memories of yesteryear and the images of a young and undaunted America.

  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 2nd November 1998
  • State: New York
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738500133
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Bill Twomey is one of the most well-known Bronx historians. He began writing the history of the borough for the Bronx Times Reporter in 1983 and is the author of Arcadia Publishing's Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay, East Bronx, and South Bronx. Thomas X. Casey, a Riverdale resident, is also a frequent Bronx history lecturer and has the largest collection of Bronx postcards with more than 5,000 unique images.