Sleepy Hollow, New York
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Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York metropolitan area.
Philipsburg Manor House in the central part of Sleepy Hollow
Lower course of Pocantico River near Philipsburg Manor House – part of the area which the early Dutch colonists named "Slapershaven," or "Sleepers' Haven." The name was later Anglicized as “Sleepy Hollow.”
Philipsburg Manor House at the Upper Mills
Carl's Mill on the Pocantico River, Sleepy Hollow by William Rickarby Miller (1851), depicting one of the early landmarks of the Sleepy Hollow area; it vanished before 1893. In Wolfert's Roost, Washington Irving writes: "In a remote part of the Hollow, where the Pocantico forced its way down rugged rocks, stood Carl's mill, the haunted house of the neighborhood."
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irvi
Sleepy Hollow, New York
…and a half centuries after the first Dutch settlers called the area "Slapershaven" or "Sleepers' Harbor." The village is known internationally through The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, an 1820 short story by Washington Irving about the local area and its infamous specter, the Headless Horseman. Irving lived in the area and is buried…
Ichabod Crane pursued by the Headless Horseman, by F. O. C. Darley, 1849
The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by John Quidor
Headstone of Catriena Ecker Van Tassel in the Burying Ground of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane, Respectfully Dedicated to Washington Irving. William J. Wilgus (1819–53), artist chromolithograph, c. 1856