Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley

Everybody knows the tale, but there's a lot of truth behind the legend. An hour up the Hudson River there's another world, still steeped in early American mythology, and still bearing the marks of this earlier age.

Here's a good place to start your adventure, how Washington Irving came to write the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in his own words, and how that world has changed, and how it hasn't since then.

Return to Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Jonathan Kruk, The Sleepy Hollow Storyteller

Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley, The History Trekker

Jonathan Kruk, The Sleepy Hollow Storyteller by history travel photographer/writer Todd Atteberry for the History Trekker

The Pursuit of Ichabod Crane, from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

Behind Urban Legends, Classic Gothic Ghost Stories, Haunted Hikes, Historic Towns and Villages, Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley, The best in haunted travel tips

Writing in an introduction from a reprinting of the story in 1996, Henry Steiner, Village Historian of Sleepy Hollow states that “At the close of his narrative, Irving anticipates a time when change will have so completely altered Sleepy Hollow that cramped historians will doubt that it once existed at all.” Irving need not have […]