Sponsors

       The Yonkers Historical Society is grateful to our sponsors for their annual support of the Society’s newsletter:

  • American Sugar Refining, Inc.
  • Atlantic Bank
  • East Yonkers Rotary Club
  • Flower Funeral Home
  • Flynn Memorial Home
  • William F. Harrington, Esquire
  • Hudson Valley National Foundation Inc.
  • Leake and Watts Services Inc.
  • Stephen A Macknowski, Yonkers Canoe Club
  • Oakland Cemetery
  • Saint Joseph’s Medical Center
  • Nortrud Wolf Spero Real Estate
  • Yonkers Police Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants Association

Credits:
Home Page The animated gif is composed of images courtesy of Carol Clark (Untermyer Park), the Yonkers Planning Bureau (NRA, Yonkers Bicycle Club and Charles Reid) and from Yonkers Illustrated [Yonkers Board of Trade, 1902] (Hollywood Inn).

Resources Page The image of the Untermyer Park mosaic is courtesy of Carol Clark. The animated gif is composed of images courtesy of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce (Untermyer Park), the Yonkers Planning Bureau (mounted policeman, Osterheld & Eickemeyer, Machinists), Yonkers Illustrated (Public Bath House and Recreation Pier) and The Yonkers Gazette [February 28, 1889] (Getty Square Station).

The History of Yonkers has been excerpted from Yonkers Through the Years [Yonkers Board of Education, 1962].

History of Yonkers: From Early Settlement to the Revolution. The image of the Native American village is from a 1653 Map of New England from Bruce G. Trigger, Handbook of North American Indians: The Northeast [Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978]. The images of Frederick Philipse III, Adrian van der Donck and Philipse Manor Hall are courtesy of the Yonkers Planning Bureau. The image of Mary Philipse is courtesy of Historic Hudson Valley. View from Valentine Hill is courtesy of The Hudson River Museum of Westchester. The Phoenix and Rose image is courtesy of the New York Public Library.

The Yonkers Historical Society webpage is maintained by Joan Jennings.

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