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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Historic Sleepy Hollow 
HE Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is 
situated on the east bank of the 
Hudson River, at Tarrytown, 
Westchester County, N. Y., 
fourteen miles north of the 
boundary of New York city. 
It is easily accessible, but it is 
hoped and believed that its ru- 
ral surroundings will protect it 
for centuries to come from the 
fate which, earlier or later, overtakes all burial places 
that interfere with the growth of cities. 
This favored cemetery enjoys the distinction of 
having been christened by Washington Irving, who. 
Cemetery, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
main, but they bear inscriptions in a language un- 
known in the locality in this day. 
The site, so beautiful and so well adapted to its 
purpose, is without a rival in grandeur and in beauty 
of location, and its undulating surface presents every 
variety of landscape. So there is small wonder that 
it has been accepted by succeeding generations, who 
have gradually increased its area until it now com- 
prises nearly one hundred and fifty acres and extends 
from the Pocantico to the Hudson River. Charming 
views over long sweeps of that historic stream are 
obtained from the commanding knolls of the modern 
cemetery that has replaced the simple burying ground 
of the sturdy burghers who lived and died steeped in 
THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. 
having stolen away “from the world and its distrac- 
tions,” has himself slept there for many years. It is 
opulent in natural beauty and historic interest, and the 
store of legendary and poetic lore that clusters around 
the locality makes it classic ground. 
The early Dutch pioneers selected a spot on the 
Pocantico (described by Irving as “a large brook 
which raves among the broken rocks and trunks of 
fallen trees”), near its junction with the Hudson, for 
the site of “The Dutch Church of the Manor of Phil- 
ipsburg, which still stands, and established on the 
ground surrounding it what was long known as “The 
Old Dutch Grave Yard,” which they began to use as 
early as 1685. Many of the ancient headstones re- 
tire superstitious mystery that centered in this secluded 
spot. 
Irving says that “the sequestered situation of the 
old church seems to have made it a favorite haunt 
of troubled spirits. It stands on a knoll, surrounded 
by locust trees and lofty elms, from among which 
its decent white-washed walls shine modestly forth 
like Christian purity, beaming through the shades of 
retirement. To look upon its grass-grown yard, 
where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one 
would think that here, at least, the dead might rest 
in peace. The immediate cause of the prevalence of 
supernatural stories in these parts was doubtless 
owing to the vicintiy of Sleepy Hollow. There was a 
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