Sleepy Hollow

Scott and I ventured to the village of Sleepy Hollow today. It was about a 2 1/2 hour drive to our destination.  We were so close to NY City...so close, I could ALMOST taste it.  We STILL haven't been to the city since we moved here.  Someday we will make it! 

 If you haven't heard of The legend of Sleepy Hollow, it is the story of  Ichabod Crane, a, lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related". Although the nature of the Headless Horseman is left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom Bones in disguise.

This picture was taken at the "bridge" where Ichabod Crane "mysteriously" disappeared!

This is Washington Irving's cemetery plot.  Washington Irving wrote the story "Sleepy Hollow" as well as Rip Van Winkle and other American classics!

The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery has other notable historic figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler and William Rockefeller (John Rockefeller's brother).