Research

Scope and Content Note

This series includes tax assessment rolls, town board minutes, village board of trustees minutes, planning board minutes, and other archival records created by two different jurisdictions: the Town of Scarsdale and Village of Scarsdale, which are coterminous (same boundaries). Of the dozen or more different series microfilmed, the majority were created by the town.

Microfilmed records include town tax assessment rolls (1822-1982) showing value of property, tax rate, and amount and date of payment; village tax assessment rolls (1917-1984, 1986-1987) showing village tax, sewer tax, and water tax, assessment rates, amounts paid, and dates of payment; village tax liens on property (1915-1956); village school tax (1915-1917, 1969-1989); village tax rolls (1985-1986); county taxes rolls (1985-1989); village veterans' exemptions (1970-1971, 1975); board of appeals minutes, fire commission minutes (1912-1915); sewer commission minutes (1913-1915); landscape commission minutes (1930-1931); board of appeals minutes (1948-1991); board of trustees minutes (1915-1991); town board minutes (1783-1992, with gaps); town planning board minutes (1963-1966); and village planning board minutes (1917-1990).