Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and Burial Ground

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and Burial Ground (originally incorporated as Tarrytown Cemetery) is an approximately 90-acre non-profit, non-sectarian cemetery in the village of Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery and renamed Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in 1865, it became the burial landscape tied to Washington Irving, who was a cofounder and is interred there. Some sources describe the hollow becoming a cemetery in 1855, a discrepancy in development chronology noted among historical accounts. The supplied source material does not include eyewitness reports of contemporary paranormal events. Instead, the site is culturally and literarily significant as the landscape identified with Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and tourism and cemetery materials present the cemetery and the adjacent Old Dutch Church area as the backdrop and finishing point for visitor routes tracing places associated with the Headless Horseman in the tale. The Old Dutch Church nearby is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, reinforcing the area's historic preservation context. In modern practice the cemetery remains an active burying ground and a visitor destination; it also promotes Riverview Natural Burial Grounds and green burial options. The cemetery's identity and visitor interest are strongly shaped by its Washington Irving association and the regional folklore that grew from the short story, rather than by documented contemporary paranormal investigations in the provided materials.