ELMSFORD, NY (January 21, 2026) — The Westchester County Historical Society will host a 250th Anniversary Tea on Saturday, January 31, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Records Center, 2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, New York.
The event will feature a program on the historical society’s unique resources about the Revolutionary War years in Westchester County, including new online collections designed to help researchers and residents explore the period.
A newly digitized collection of The Westchester Historian, the society’s quarterly publication produced since 1925, will be launched at the event. The collection includes over 200 issues containing dozens of articles relevant to the colonial period and the Revolutionary War in Westchester. Digitization was funded by a Preservation Grant from the Polly Cooper Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The program will include a brief presentation highlighting items from the collection as well as excerpts from Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, an online collection of firsthand accounts from Westchester residents who lived through the war.
These collections and other primary and secondary sources related to the Revolutionary War period in Westchester are accessible through a new section on the WCHS website titled Westchester during the American Revolution.
WCHS staff will also introduce a newly created online tour of Revolutionary War sites available on mobile devices through www.theclio.com, an educational website and free mobile application that guides users to thousands of historical and cultural sites across the United States.
The app already includes information on more than 360 National Register sites in Westchester previously added by WCHS. The new “Westchester’s Revolutionary War Sites” tour provides information and images for over 50 sites in the county related to the period.
Refreshments representing both the Patriots and the Loyalists will be served. Seating is limited. Reservations can be made by calling the WCHS Office at (914) 231-1401 or emailing info@westchesterhistory.com.
Established in 1874, the Westchester County Historical Society is the eleventh oldest county historical society in America and the only organization that collects and promotes the countywide history of Westchester. The society’s collection of books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, maps and atlases, and images pertaining to the history and genealogy of Westchester County is housed in a temperature- and humidity-controlled environment at the Westchester County Records Center, 2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford, NY, 10523.
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