Yonkers History

ARCHIVES:

Yonkers Statesman and Herald Statesman newspapers (Fulton Website)

Westchester County Archives - Digital Collection

Westchester County Archives

Yonkers Maps (David Rumsey Collection)

Bob Piwinski’s Victorian Source

Duke University Yonkers photographs

Library of Congress Yonkers Photographs

Yonkers Tax Assessment Photographs

HRVH Historical Newspapers (selected for Yonkers)



MAPS:

Original 1785 Map prepared for the Commissioners of Forfeitures

Burr 1829 Westchester (including Yonkers)

Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River

Thomas C. Cornell 1851 Yonkers Map

Colton's 1867 Map of The County of Westchester

Beer's 1868 Yonkers

Beer's 1872 Yonkers

Bromley 1881 Yonkers

Bien 1893 Yonkers

Library of Congress 1899 Yonkers pictorial map (buildings drawn in)

Yonkers circa 1900

1901 Westchester Atlas Yonkers Section 

Kiser, Ellis, Mueller 1907 Atlas - Maps of Yonkers
Bromley 1910 Atlas

Bromley 1914 Atlas - Maps of Yonkers

1929-1931 Westchester Atlas Yonkers Section 

TARS – Yonkers Trolleys Route Map

Elevation Finder Map centered on Yonkers



BOOKS:

Yonkers Illustrated

Old Yonkers 1646-1922

Chronicles of Yonkers (an epic poem with lots of names)

Philipse Manor Hall

Westchester County During the American Revolution

Yonkers in the Rebellion of 1861-1865

Yonkers In the World War (WW I)

An Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers

Harvard, 1898 – Housing of the Working people of Yonkers

Henry B. Dawson's 1866 Papers Concerning the Town of Yonkers

Records of the Town of New Rochelle (1699-1828)

Richmond's Guide To The City of Yonkers with map (1919)

Yonkers & Mt. Vernon Businessmen and Points of Interest (1892)
     
Views of Yonkers
     
Yonkers Park
     
Gopsill's Westchester County Directory (incl. Yonkers) c. 1866
     
Next stop Westchester: People and the Railroad
     
Early Wills of Westchester County (1664 to 1784)
     
History of Westchester County, Volume 1, Part 1, edited by John Thomas Scharf

History of Westchester County, Volume 1, Part 1, edited by John Thomas Scharf – Nepperhan

History of Westchester County, Volume 2     Biographical History of Westchester County New York 1899
     
Indian Wars and the Uprising of 1655, Yonkers Depopulated by Thomas A. Atkins March 18, 1892     Official

Automobile Directory of the State of New York for 1914  (Auto License Owner Lookups)



ORGANIZATIONS:

Yonkers Historical Society

Westchester County Historical Society

Westchester County Genealogical Society



INFRASTRUCTURE:

Yonkers Water Supply and its Future Development (March 1915)

Old Quarries in Yonkers

Midland Avenue Quarry

Croton Aqueduct

TARS – Yonkers Trolleys (photos)

TARS – Yonkers  Trolleys Route Map

Grassy Sprain Reservoir Construction



HISTORY:

Dutch Land Grants 1630 – 1664

Commissioners of forfeiture Name Index

Commissioners of forfeiture Land records

Oakland  Cemetery History

Yonkers Regiment in Civil War - 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment

Full Text of Yonkers in the Rebellion of 1861-1865

Yonkers History

Seven Hills of Yonkers

National Register of Historic Places in Yonkers

Yonkers Mayors and Village Presidents (1855-2004)

History of Main Street

Tenement Housing and Poverty in Yonkers 1903

Yonkers Fire Dept History

Civil War Recruitment in Yonkers

Yonkers First (1880) Telephone Directory



REMINISCENCES: Tales of Olde Yonkers:

Memories of 1920s Getty Square

Frederick Lyman Cobb

Elmer Craft: Nodine Hill

Elmer Craft: Old Picnic Grounds

Elmer Craft: Yonkers Political History/Chronology

Elmer Craft: Yonkers Odd Names and Places

Elmer Craft Odd Names and Places - Chicken Island and the Glen

John Nodine: Nodine Hill

Frank Walton: Nodine Hill

Dayspring Church - Nodine Hill

Jack Treacy: Growing Up on 1940s Stanley Avenue

Railroad Comes to Yonkers
 
Park Hill Elevator, Cave, Hotel Fire

Early Yonkers Businesses

James W Hannigan recalls old Yonkers businesses 1889-1922