Roll of Honor | Ardsley American Legion Museum

Among numerous martial or veteran related monuments and plaques in Ardsley, Ashford Park (now Pascone Park) contains a reconstructed Roll of Honor containing 300 names of the Ardsleyans who served in World War II. Fourteen Ardsley School District students who perished have a gold star after their name. The original Roll of Honor, constructed by Ardsley students and their parents, along with church and scout groups under the auspices of Ardsley’s American Legion Post, was dedicated on Memorial Day in 1943.

Adjacent to the Roll of Honor is a small building housing a veterans museum which is open on Memorial Day. The building, initially the location of the McCartney family’s real estate and insurance business, became the original monthly meeting place for Ardsley’s American Legion Post #458, founded in 1921 after World War I. Post #458 and the Village of Ardsley sponsor an annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony. A short history of the building, which also briefly served as the office of the Ardsley Village Clerk, and the efforts by Post #458 Legionnaire Paul Petreti to preserve it can be found online in the Fall 2007 Ardsley Historical Society newsletter and January 2008 “The Ardsley Villager” newsletter. The McCartney insurance agency (now McCartney Verrino & Rosenberry and located in Addyman Square at 477 Ashford Avenue) will celebrate its centennial in 2023.