Revolutionary Yonkers 250

City of Yonkers logo celebrating 250th anniversary of the American Revolution

Join the Revolutionary Yonkers 250 Committee and the Yonkers Public Library to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, starting in fall 2025. 

Find out more about the American Revolution in Yonkers and the surrounding area through these resources, available online and in the library!

1900 Church Year Book of the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N. Y.
The Battle of Pell’s Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776
Biographical History of Westchester County, New York. Illustrated. Volume I
Biographical History of Westchester County, New York. Illustrated. Volume II

Brass Buttons-Blue Coats: Remembering All Who Served. A Biographical and Pictorial History of the Yonkers New York Police Department and Those Who Served During the First 100 Years 1871 to 1971, in the library

Chronicles of Yonkers

Church and Sunday School Work in Yonkers: Its Origin and Progress, in the library and full text online

Church year book of the First Presbyterian Church of Yonkers, N.Y

Coming of Age -- in Yonkers, in the library 

Death of A Library: An American Tragedy, in the library

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York Pt. 1 The Unsettled Years, 1853-1860, in the library

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York: Part 2: The Dutch, the English, and the Incorporated American Village, 1609- 1860, in the library

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York: The formative years, 1820-1852, in the library

Dunwoodie: The History of St. Joseph's Seminary, in the library

Getty Square - The Village and Other Yonkers Memories, in the library

Ghosts and legends of Yonkers (Haunted America), in the library

The History and Historical Relics of Yonkers, on order

History of the County of Westchester, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time Volume II

History of the Crestwood, Yonkers (New York) Public Library, at the library

History of Westchester County New York, vols. 1-5, in the library and full text online

History of Westchester County: New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge and West Farms which have been annexed to New York City Volume 1 Part 2, in the library and full text online

Indian Wars and the Uprising of 1655—Yonkers Depopulated

Landmarks Lost & Found: An Introduction to the Architecture and History of Yonkers, in the library

Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, in the library and full text online

Old Yonkers, 1646-1922: A Page of History

Papers Concerning the Town and Village of Yonkers

Paradise on the Hudson: The Creation, Loss and Revival of a Great American Garden, in the library

Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, NY: The Site, the Building and Its Occupants, in the library and full text online

Pillars of Yonkers, in the library

Popovers and Candlelight: Patricia Murphy and the Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire, in the library

Poverty and Patriotism of the Neutral Grounds

St Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York 1896-1921

Saturday Afternoons at the Itch, More Yonkers Memories, in the library

Show Me A Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race and Redemption, in the library

Slovaks on the Hudson: Most Holy Trinity Church, Yonkers, & the Slovak Catholics of the Archdiocese of New York, 1894- 2000, in the library

A Study of African-American Life in Yonkers from the Turn of the Century, in the library

The History of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, in the library

The Hudson River from Ocean to Source, in the library and full text online

The Lost City of Hip Hop, in the library

The Neutral Ground

The New Parks Beyond The Harlem: with thirty illustrations and maps

The pictorial field-book of the revolution; or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for independence.

The Valentines in America

Westchester-County, New York, During the American Revolution

Yonkers Illustrated, in the library and full text online

Yonkers in the Rebellion of 1861-1865: Including A History of the Erection Of The Monument To The Men Of Yonkers Who Fought To Save The Union, in the library and full text online

Yonkers in the Twentieth Century, in the library

Yonkers in the World War, in the library and full text online

Yonkers Then & Now, in the library