The original Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is an
historical, yet active, cemetery. There are
still burial lots available in this most hallowed ground and
a new community mausoleum being constructed.
However, perhaps you are more curious about The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow?

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is kicking off Spring with 5 consecutive Saturday walking tours of its historic grounds and famous residents. Reserve your spot on a tour by calling the cemetery office at 914-631-0081, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Afternoon tours
Cemetery president Dave Logan leads three daylight tours through the historic lower portion of the cemetery. As you pass the Old Dutch Burying Ground, you will learn how the churchyard and some of its burials inspired Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." You will visit the cemetery’s receiving vault (a hundred-year-old in-ground crypt), Washington Irving, and other highlights of the cemetery’s oldest sections. Afternoon tours cover a distance of about one mile.
Dates: Saturdays, May 3, 17 and 31
Time: Tours start promptly at 2 pm and run to about 4 pm.
Location: Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery's south gate, adjacent to the Old Dutch Church, 430 North
Broadway, Sleepy Hollow. Parking on site.
Donation: $15 donation/person.
Advanced reservations required.
Questions: For questions about May 3,
17, and 24 afternoon tours, email info@sleepyhollowcemetery.org
Evening tours
It's always more fun in the dark! Jim Logan leads two
evening lantern tours of the historic heart of the cemetery. After paying
respects to Washington Irving, author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," you
will visit the cemetery’s
receiving vault, a Revolutionary War general, the cemetery’s Revolutionary
War and Civil War monuments, 19th century abortionist Madame Restell,
notorious counterfeiter Joshua Miner, the soaring neo-gothic monument
of dry goods merchant Owen Jones, artists Jasper Francis Crospey and
Robert Havell, blind sculptor Johnson Mundy, industrialists Andrew Carnegie
and William Rockefeller, and others. Evening tours cover around two miles.
Wear sturdy shoes, as the ground is uneven in places.
Dates: Saturdays,
May 10 and 24
Time: 6:30 pm. Tours starts promptly at 7 pm and run to
about 9 pm. Location: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery's south gate, adjacent to
the Old Dutch Church, 430 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow. Parking on site.
Donation: $20 donation/person. Advanced reservations required.
Questions: For questions
about May 10 and 24 evening tours, email publications@sleepyhollowcemetery.org