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Scouts BSA Troop 5173 - Yorktown Heights, NY, 137 Moseman Road, Yorktown Heights, NY (2026)

10/19/2026

One of our Scouts earned a badge for being Baldy the Eagle Scout for a little while!

10/19/2026

Troop 5173 had a great time at the Thunderbird Games running the Hippity-Hop Bouncers station. One of the Scouts even took a turn being Baldy the Eagle Scout!

10/19/2026

Troop 174 and Troop 5173 join forces!

07/14/2026

Team Bumpy Toads’ runner coming in to tag the swimmer.

07/14/2026

Singing like this is a daily occurrence. This one is one of my favorites.

01/21/2026

Team work makes the dream work! Or at least helps get the Phoenix Patrol to have the fastest time!

01/20/2026

A little history on our Scout home.

A new and weekly series of postings detailing the role of Historical Cortlandt in America!!
In honor of our 250th Anniversary, the Town of Cortlandt is creating a weekly series of postings about historic sites within our town. Cortlandt was founded 12 years after Independence, in 1788. But the original settlers came much earlier, in the 17th century. The Town of Cortlandt played a major part in the fight for freedom and the founding of our country. Each week, we will showcase a different location within Cortlandt, providing the historical significance of each with photographs and descriptions.
PLEASE HELP US…if you know of historically significant areas in your part of town, please let us know! Send us the locations and what you know about them. Provide information and photographs. We will choose one area each week to highlight. Don’t be discouraged if it takes some time for us to post about your area; it is a big town of almost 50 square miles, with a tremendous treasure trove of history. But we have the whole year! Send your suggestions to [email protected].
We are grateful for the input of the Van Cortlandt Historical Society’s Jeff Canning and Hendrick Hudson’s Living History Teacher Joseph Ryan for their professional assistance.
Here's our first posting: The Little Red School House, on Locust Avenue, just south of Oregon Road. It is now the home of the Van Cortlandtville Historical Society.
The Little Red Schoolhouse was erected in 1772 as a Baptist Church and remained a church until 1814, when it was converted into a one-room school house. It served as a school continuously from 1814 until 1935 , and then again from 1952 thru 1972, serving as a kindergarten-- as part of the Lakeland Central School District. In 1989, it was officially recognized on both the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places. It subsequently became the home and meeting place of The Van Cortlandville Historical Society, which began conducting its Early School Days program at the Schoolhouse in 1975, to enable local fourth graders to experience classroom life in the 1840s. Thus, it provided the rare opportunity for young learners to step into a preserved piece of educational history. The schoolroom and adjoining meeting room of the Society has books, photographs and classroom items dating back to that early era.