Copied here is information from handout given out at White Plains Local History Roundtable Feb 2018. NAACP in area covers Greenburgh & White Plains (WP). Housing in WP was segregated and Battle Hill was part of Greenburgh till 1916 when WP annexed the area as a City. Many Afro-Americans lived in the Business District till…
Category: White Plains History
Rosa Kittrell
This a copy of the text from Ben Himmelfarb's blog on Local History on Rosa Kttrell for which White Plains (WP) named one of its parks : Local History: Rosa Kittrell By Ben Himmelfarb October 10 has been designated World Mental Health Day by the World Health Organization. In honor of it, here is a story about…
White Plains Demographics
White Plains is a "diverse" community but it was not always. Census reporting gives the best way to examine the changes. Looking around on the streets or in the stores and those in our School district are not necessarily reflected in the same demographics as the total numbers living in City. Population from first census…
History Behind the Curtain: Broadway Theatre
The first play I went to as a teen was Fiddler on the Roof and was hooked. I continued to go to live theatre during my college years. In 1982, I became a TDF member and I was able to attend a lot of theatre on and off Broadway. Most Broadway theatres are historic and…
White Plains Anecdotes
Decided to post some stories shared by people on Facebook (FB): Mike Stinnett in responding to a picture posted of the former 1909 White Plains Public Library in the FB group of "White Plains, Remember when..." wrote the following: "I used to read the cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post. They were there under the…
Parks of White Plains: History Behind the Name
White Plains (WP) Historic Society's newsletter posted article below on the history behind the names of City's parks: It should be noted that the City has other parks (see information posted below from City's Park's & Recreation Dept.), plazas and playgrounds (not in a park) and not listed in Newsletter above (i.e. Renaissance Plaza, Bark Park, Bryant-Mamaroneck…
Buried in White Plains
Entry is from White Plains, NY: A City of Contrasts from chapter "North Broadway Area." Both the Presbyterian Church & Cemetery and the White Plains (WP) Rural Cemetery on N Broadway contain graves from colonial times and veterans of the Battle of WP. As was once customary, people had family burial plots near their homes and WP still has…
