Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery and renamed Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in 1865, is a roughly 90-acre non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground located in the village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), New York. Washington Irving is recorded in the supplied sources as a cofounder of the establishment and is buried there. Archival materials associated with the locality include a privately printed record titled "The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow in North Tarrytown, New York; a record of the early gravestones and their inscriptions," which documents early gravestones and inscriptions in the area and indicates historical continuity of burial activity in the locality. The supplied sources do not contain reports of paranormal phenomena, named supernatural entities, eyewitness accounts, or investigative theories regarding hauntings at this cemetery. While the site has cultural resonance due to its association with Washington Irving, the provided documentation does not assert any spectral activity or link the cemetery to literary or folkloric hauntings. Basic descriptive facts about the cemetery (name, incorporation and renaming dates, notable interments) are corroborated by a general encyclopedia entry and a linked structured data entry, and local archival records demonstrate genealogical and historical interest in the site's gravestones.