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Friday, September 8, 2006
An Image of The Brotherton Store in Pelhamville Before It Burned in 1890
Before the incorporation of the Village of
North Pelham in 1896, the area north of the New Haven Main Line railroad
tracks was known as Pelhamville. During the 1880s, a man named Loftus
Brotherton ran a tiny grocery store located on 5th Avenue near what was
then known as 4th Street (today's Lincoln Avenue).
According to an account by former Pelham Historian
William R. Montgomery, Brotherton's "was noted for its high grade
groceries. It was well patronized by . . . families from Mount Vernon and
New Rochelle as well as Pelham."
The store, shown in the image immediately below, looked like a classic
country store with a covered porch extending along nearly the entire front
of the building that looked more like a residence than a commercial
structure. Loftus Brotherton likely lived above the store on the second
floor of the structure.
The store burned to the ground in May, 1890. Before then it reportedly
was the gathering place of a local organization known as the "City Island
Social Club". The photograph above shows a gathering of the City Island
Social Club in front of the store. The giant banner on the left is
difficult to read because it is turned backwards to the camera's view, but
it says "City Island Social Club".
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