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The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where Irving and many other notable souls were laid to rest, was ranked 14th among the top 15 most haunted trails in the country by Buycycle.com, an online marketplace ...
Advance tickets are required for both two-hour tours through the historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. If a graveyard at night just gives you the heebie jeebies, daytime tours are also available .
Head to the town for a reading of "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," visit the author's grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and then stay for the Great Jack-'O-Lantern Blaze at historic Van Cortlandt Manor ...
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, the site posthumously honored ...
A sign by the cemetery. Sleepy Hollow was designed in 1855 by noted landscape architects Cleveland and Copeland, and has been in use ever since.It was dedicated on September 29, 1855; Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a dedication speech and would be buried there decades later. [2]
Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York.It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820).
The lighthouse restoration project continues May 31, 2023 in Sleepy Hollow's Kingsland Point Park. The lighthouse dates back to 1883 and can be viewed from RiverWalk.
The rural cemetery, or garden cemetery, is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. This article is a list of rural cemeteries in the United States .