MosHOLu' is an old hamlet and post-office skirting the Albany post road, known early in the century as " Warner's," where many years ago there were a church (Methodist), school-house, store, blacksmith and wagon-shop and a cluster of dwellings.

WooDLAWX Heights. -- A village (and until recently a post-office) on the Harlem Railroad, laid out in 1873 by George Opdyke and others on a part of the old Gilbert Valentine farm, in the Yonkers. E. K. Wilhird extended the village northward the same year to the Mile Square road on land formerly part of Phillipse ^lanor. A church and a number of small dwelling-houses have been erected on these plots.

Van Cortlaxdt's is a station on the New York City and Northern Railroad, located near the old Van Cortlandt pond and mills. Near by are the icehouses and residence of George R. Jremper. The historic old mansion (1748), now the residence of Augustus Van Cortlandt, stands a few hundred yards northward, upon Van der Donck's ancient plantingfield. Opposite to the car-houses, beyond the station^ is an ancient burial-place, probably that of the Betts and Tippett families in the seventeenth century.

Olaff Park is aname given to about one hundred acres of the Van Cortland's estate, purchased and laid out in 1869 by W. N. Woodvvorth, and so called after the name of the ancestor of the Van Cortlandts in America. No improvements have been made on this tract except to open streets and avenues.

WooDLAAVx Cemetery. -- This beautiful " city of the dead " consists of about four hundred acres on the heights of the Bronx, extending westward to an ancient road, whose line is now followed by Central Avenue The house of Abraham Vermilye stood on its easterly side in 1781. Early in this century John Bussing, Daniel Tier, William and Abraham Valentine owned the farms of which the cemetery is now composed.