Scarsdale History: List of Resources

From the Scarsdale Historical Society

• Our Website: articles, films, on local history topics including: slavery, suffrage, the Bronx River, the McCarthy era, and more.
  
  

• Films on Vimeo

  • The Neighborhoods Collection:

    • Heathcote: The Road to Heathcote and the Forgotten Railway

    • Greenacres: Greenacres Tales: Building a Scarsdale Neighborhood

    • Quaker Ridge: Scarsdale’s Quaker Ridge: Its Heritage and History

    • Edgewood: Arthur Manor: Scarsdale’s First Suburban Community

    • Fox Meadow: Path to a Scarsdale Community: Fox Meadow and the Butler Estate

  • Other Documentary Films:

    • Women Rising: The Scarsdale Suffragists

    • The Village: A History of Downtown Scarsdale

    • The Life and Art of Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952)

    • A River Returns, a History of the Bronx River

    • Scarsdale in the 18th & 19th Centuries: From Hardscrabble Farms to Gracious Estates

    • Scarsdale in WWII - A film by residents released in 1946, recently digitized

    • A History of Black People in Scarsdale - by Jordan Copeland

• Scarsdale Public Library

  • Digital Collection: Scans of our Photos and Documents

  • Digitized Newspapers: Scarsdale Inquirers (1901-1977)

• Local Sites

  • Wayside Cottage: Colonial-era tours available to school groups (by the Junior League of Central Westchester). Wayside is the oldest landmark in the Village of Scarsdale and one of the oldest preserved residences in the United States. 

  • Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters: a new Revolutionary War-era site in Hartsdale slated to open as a museum in 2026.