Pound Ridge Historical Society
Founded in 1971
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Research Information

 

  • CHURCH
    • Pound Ridge Methodist Church, now Pound Ridge Community Church  1850-1983. Compiled and indexed by Jay Harris.
    • Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church 1820-1938 - Baptism, marriages, and deaths.  Presently being indexed.
    • Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church Sessional Records 1822-1899.  Compiled by George W. Hoyt.
    • Dantown Church
    • East Woods Methodist Church
    • Sellecks Corner Chapel
    • Long Ridge Methodist Church
  • DEATHS
    • Tombstone Records of 18 cemeteries in Pound Ridge.
    • Lockwood Journal - Includes genealogy of early Pound Ridge Families and accounts of Tarleton's Raid, 1779.  Indexed.
    • Births, Deaths and Marriages 1846-1853.  Compilation of Pound Ridge Town Records with index by Peg Malcolm and Richard Major.
  • MARRIAGES
    • Marriages by Aaron Fancher, JP, 1838-1871.  Indexed.
    • Marriages by William Patterson, Minister of the Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1837-1886.  Indexed.
  • HISTORY
    • Road Lists (copies) of Pound Ridge 1798, 1799, 1806 to 1892.  The society's files extend only to 1852.
    • Vertical Files of Pound Ridge surnames.
    • God's Country - A history of Pound Ridge by Jay Harris, 1976.  The society now has reprints availible for sale.
    • Transcription of an address (1972) given by L. Raymond Waterbury, Tax Assessor of Pound Ridge 1934-1967.  Talks about history of the Long Ridge Road area.
    • Interview, 1939, with George Rusco, supervisor of Pound Ridge, 1894-1927.  Indexed.
    • Archival Material, now 1,351 items, has been compiled in large database.  All names, places, etc. associated with these items are included in this database.
    • Historic notes on the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation by Phil Pessoni, 1997.