Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Sleepy Hollow, NY
N 41° 05.811 W 073° 51.679
18T E 595625 N 4550133
The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of Washington Irving, who wrote about “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
Waymark Code: WMR2CN
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2016
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The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery covers almost 100 acres. The area is the setting of Washington Irving story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Once known as Tarrytown Cemetery, the town and Cemetery changed its name to Sleepy Hollow to honor Irving’s Legend. One of the most famous sites described in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the bridge that crossed Pocantico River on the Albany Post Road. It was here that Ichabod was unseated by a pumpkin and visitor’s often search for the legendary bridge. However, if the bridge ever existed it has long since rotted away and there is nary a trace of it remaining today. The cemetery has constructed its own bridge upstream from where one of the Albany Post Road Bridges once stood during the time that Washington Irving was creating his Legend. The bridge is one of the most popular spot in the cemetery. There is history at just about every turn and some of New York’s most famous citizens are resting here, including Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler along with Harry and Leona Helmsley. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Place in 2009.
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Street address:
540 North Broadway
Sleepy Hollow, NY United States
10591
County / Borough / Parish: Westchester County
Year listed: 2009
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1825-1974
Historic function: Funerary, Cemetery
Current function: Funerary, Cemetery
Privately owned?: yes
Hours of operation: From: 8:00 AM To: 4:30 PM
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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