Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and the adjoining Old Dutch Church landscape are inseparable from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A Legends & Lore marker inside the cemetery specifically commemorates the story that the Headless Horseman tethers his horse among the graves.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/headless-horseman/