Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Sleepy Hollow, NY
Washington Irving
Apr 3, 1783 – Nov 28, 1859 · aged 76
Author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”
- Famous
- Gone 100+ years
Their world: the first telegraph message (1844)
After writing the tale that made Sleepy Hollow famous across the world, he bought a cottage beside the Hudson and asked to be buried on the hill above the Old Dutch Church.
