[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] terms of the lease. A tract of land adjoining was rented in 1882, to be used as a rifle range, and its acquisition has also been recom mended. The camp-grounds arc elevated about one hundred feet above the river and afford a view to the south which has been declared by Adjutant-General Town-send to be hardly surpassed by an\ on the Hudson. 1 A neighboring brook has been dammed to make a I reservoir, and the water distributed over the CORTLANDT. 383 grounds in pipes. Arrangements have also been made on a large scale for cooking the victuals for the troops. Other improvements have been added at various times, until the camp is well provided with conveniences. Cortlandtville. — About two miles north of Peekskill is located a hamlet containing about one hundred inhabitants, known indifferently as Cort-landtville or Van Cortlandtville. This was the origi-nal Peekskill. Within it are located the old and historic Episcopal Church and burying-ground, the Cortlandt Cemetery, the house formerly owned by the Van Cortlandts, a school and a Methodist Church. On the corner of the old Post road and the road leading past the Episcopal Church is a small frame house, now the property of Gardner Hollman, which in Revolutionary times was an inn where the New York and Albany stages halted. In this house is still shown a room in which Major Andre, then a prisoner on his way to West Point, stopped for a short time. The room at that time contained a bar.