We are a WWI Post! Many local WWI Veterans lived in the area of newly named vilage of Valhalla, previously called Kensico Station, before the second big Kensico Dam was built. Our Post, the American Legion Adolph Pfister Post 1038 was chartered in 1931 by 21 veterans and is named after a local U.S. Navy seaman that lost his life in 1919, because of his service during WWI. The Pfister family owned a lumber yard on a siding of the New York Central steam rail line in Valhalla. Many local Veterans knew Seaman Pfister. Our Post home here in Valhalla, was first built in 1951, then enlarged in 1971. The land, about 2 acres of property, was donated by the Kensico Cemetery in 1947. The road name was changed to Legion Drive, from previously Railroad Avenue, as it went to and from the railroad from Valhalla Park. The Legionnaires built the first section of our Post home by themselves and donation. The addition on the south side, was built during the Vietnam War, as a card room, kitchen and rest rooms upstairs. Downstairs a pool room and utility storage was added.
