Pound Ridge Historical Society

Pound Ridge Historical Society Museum location:
255 Westchester Avenue
Pound Ridge, NY 10576

The purpose of this Society shall be to bring together those people interested in history and especially the history of Pound Ridge and environs. Understanding the history of our community is basic to our democratic way of life, gives us a better understanding of our state and nation, and promotes a better appreciation of our American heritage.

Volunteers needed!Join the Pound Ridge Historical Society on Sunday 17th May @ 10.30am to help clean the historic graves...
05/07/2026

Volunteers needed!

Join the Pound Ridge Historical Society on Sunday 17th May @ 10.30am to help clean the historic gravestones of Burial Hill Cemetery. Meet at Burial Hill, 15 West Lane, Pound Ridge. Please dress for messy work and bring gloves and eye protection. We will provide all needed cleaning supplies. Come help preserve and protect Pound Ridge's history!

Sign up at the link below! Please see our website to become a member or donate to help us continue this work.

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Historical documents from our archives! Here are two documents in four images. The first two images show the inventory o...
05/01/2026

Historical documents from our archives! Here are two documents in four images. The first two images show the inventory of the estate of John Smith of Pound Ridge, created on January 4th, 1810. The last two images record the sales of these items at auction a few days later. This is a fascinating glimpse of the material record over two centuries ago. The inventory includes animals, tools, furniture, and even some cider! At the time that this list was created only a generation after the end of the Revolutionary War, James Madison was President and Pound Ridge was a rural farming community. This past is borne out here in the items and names.

Cleaning gravestones and honoring the past! As part of our Rev250 celebrations, the PRHS is undertaking gravestone clean...
04/24/2026

Cleaning gravestones and honoring the past! As part of our Rev250 celebrations, the PRHS is undertaking gravestone cleaning in the Historic Acre of Burial Hill cemetery, Pound Ridge. Some of these gravestones date back to the 1700's and many of those buried here played witness to the Revolutionary War. The early phase of this project is being completed with the help of high school students earning community service hours. In May we will be opening up volunteer opportunities to PRHS members, so watch this space! Come help us preserve and protect Pound Ridge history! Please see our website to become a member, or to donate to help us continue this work.

The Pound Ridge Historical Society AGM will take place at 1pm on Saturday April 25th at Conant Hall. All are welcome. Th...
04/12/2026

The Pound Ridge Historical Society AGM will take place at 1pm on Saturday April 25th at Conant Hall. All are welcome. The AGM will include a presentation of recent research by Town Historian Dr. Johanna O'Keeffe titled "Pound Ridge during the Revolution."

After the AGM we will open our museum for the season, featuring the second year of our "Then and Now" exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.

On this opening day of the Major League Baseball season, we share this wonderful piece of baseball memorabilia from our ...
03/26/2026

On this opening day of the Major League Baseball season, we share this wonderful piece of baseball memorabilia from our archives. This scrapbook, dated 1940-41, was compiled by a 14-year old Samuel Cloyd “Bob” Bobletz of Pound Ridge, NY. Bob would go on to serve in both the Pound Ridge Post Office and Pound Ridge Police Department for decades, but throughout the 1940-41 baseball seasons, he diligently followed the stories of his favorite players in his treasured scrapbook.

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Join us on Saturday, March 14th at 5pm for a lecture by Dr. Maureen Costura, who will discuss how ice ages and geologica...
03/10/2026

Join us on Saturday, March 14th at 5pm for a lecture by Dr. Maureen Costura, who will discuss how ice ages and geological events shaped the history of New York.

Dr. Costura is a professor at the Culinary Institute of America, where she teaches a diverse set of classes that focus on the archaeology and culture of food and foodways. She holds an MA in Archaeology and a PhD in Anthropology with a subfield of Latin American Studies from Cornell University. Past research has focused on the archaeology of enslavement and the archaeology of the Caribbean and French colonial world. Current research focuses on popular depictions of societal and food chain collapse, as well as contributing to the archaeological work done at the Stone Hill Cemetery in Pound Ridge, NY. She is the author of several book chapters and articles, “Eating in the Time of the Dead: Farming, Foraging, and Food Insecurity in Zombie Cinema,” Food in Memory and Imagination, and “Access to First Choice Foods and Settlement Failure at French Azilum” for Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World.

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11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Wallace Widdecombe was a Broadway and early silent movie actor who lived on Lower Shad Road with his wife, actress Jane ...
11/20/2025

Wallace Widdecombe was a Broadway and early silent movie actor who lived on Lower Shad Road with his wife, actress Jane Houston. Wallace was born in the UK in 1868, and he served in the British Army during WWI. On his 100th birthday he received this telegram of congratulations from Queen Elizabeth II. Wallace died the following year, and he was the oldest member of Actors Equity at the time of his death.

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255 Westchester Avenue
Pound Ridge, NY
10576

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+19147644333

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