This little cluster of farm houses and mechanic's residences, at the forks of the west and middle branches of the Limestone Creek, contains a school, a hotel, a grist mill, a saw mill, two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop and about twenty dwellings. The streets are fair with a few shade trees; the dwellings, with one exception, nothing extra, and yards that, as a general thing, could be improved wonderfully.”

(William G Fargo, of Wells and Fargo, was born in Watervale in 1818 and lived and worked in Pompey until he moved to Weedsport in 1840. He got his start here.)