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Historic Pelham Blog Archive
December 15, 2005
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Logging the Virgin Forest in Pelham in the Early 19th Century
It may be difficult to imagine, but there was a time when virgin forest
covered much of Pelham. There is evidence that ship timbers and large
amounts of firewood once were logged from lands in Pelham.
The most recently-uncovered evidence of such operations comes from a
series of classified advertisements published in The Evening Post,
a New York City newspaper, in 1813. An early Pelham resident named
Augustine Frederick Prevost placed the advertisements. Prevost owned an
estate with a grand home located in the area where today's Boston Post
Road crosses the Hutchinson River. One such advertisement, published on
November 17, 1813, read as follows:
"FOR SALE, the WOOD, standing on near 30 acres of land at Pelham in the
county of Westchester, supposed to be about 800 cords, within 3/4 of a
mile of the landings, whence it mayy be brought to New-York for one dollar
per cord. The wood is walnut, birch, and near one hundred of the largest
most valuable white oak for ship timber, all upland growth. Enquire of
AUG. FRED. PREVOST,
Nov. 10 10t Pelham, West-Chester county"
The "landings" to which the advertisement refers were landings on the
Hutchinson River where small boats could load and unload.
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