[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] son Valley, containing about one hundred inhabit-ants. Osceola Lake is a beautiful little body of water, nearly elliptical in shape and about one hundred acres in area. Within the village is the Osceola House (no longer open for boarders, but oc-cupied by the post-office). The former residence of Dr. James Fountain, an old-time physician of York-town, was located in this village. A son, Dr. Hosei Fountain, practiced medicine, until laid aside by ill health, in the neighborhood of Yorktown Station. The Village of Crompoxd. — On the road from Peekskill to Somers is the village of Crompond, situ-ated in the midst of a fine farming country, and con-tains a store and post-office, a Presbyterian Church and parsonage and about eight private buildings. The village derives its designation from the lakes situated about half a mile to the south, which were called the Crom Ponds during the Revolutionary period, meaning the "crooked ponds." The post-office originally bore the name of the village. Forty or more years ago it received that of Yorktown, and still retains it. The locality, however, is almost universally designated by its old Revolutionary appellation, which appears in the historical documents and records of that