A Sleepy Hollow Homecoming by Dana White – This fall, scores of Halloween tourists will descend on the Old Dutch Burying Ground and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. While Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman may be the main attraction, an 18th century sandstone grave marker near the back entrance to the Old Dutch Church offers a less spooky and more moving tale. Recently restored to its original spot after being vandalized and misplaced, the headstone of little Frederic Van Wart, dead at one […]
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