Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground (Sleepy Hollow)

The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow is a 17th‑century stone Dutch Reformed church located on Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in the village of Sleepy Hollow, New York. The church and its adjacent churchyard, known as the Old Dutch Burying Ground, are historically significant — the site is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places under the name Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow). As a physical location, the churchyard is contiguous with but distinct from the neighboring Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Culturally, the Old Dutch Church and its burying ground feature prominently in Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, making the real‑world site a lasting literary anchor for one of early America's best‑known ghost stories. The supplied sources do not provide precise construction dates beyond the 17th century, details of ownership changes, visitor policies, or the site's present access status. Reported paranormal phenomena are not documented in the provided sources. While the churchyard is widely associated in popular imagination with the spectral elements of Irving's story (for example, motifs such as the Headless Horseman), the supplied material contains no contemporary eyewitness reports, named supernatural entities, or investigative theories tied to the Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground. Therefore this entry does not assert any specific hauntings beyond noting the site's literary association.