Where can I find the Headless Horseman, Katrina Van Tassell, and Ichabod Crane?
A. At your local library or favorite book store. Washington Irving is reputed to have populated The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with fictional characters patterned after local residents, some of whom are now interred in the colonial-era burying ground that surrounds the Old Dutch Church. A guide booklet to the Old Dutch Burying Ground identifies the resting places of those individuals. Find the booklet at the museum shop at Philipsburg Manor historic site (http://www.hudsonvalley.org/philipsburg/index.htm) across Route 9 from the church. Irving himself is buried at the southern end of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, overlooking the Old Dutch Church and its burying ground.
