Colonial era spoons were often made of pewter, as goods made from pewter were shipped to colonial America by the tons. It was a …
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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.
Colonial era spoons were often made of pewter, as goods made from pewter were shipped to colonial America by the tons. It was a …
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The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow has been perched on the hill overlooking the Pocantico River and the Albany Post Road for …
Before there was New York, there was New Amsterdam. Founded by the Dutch in 1614, New Amsterdam occupied much of the tip of lower …
Philipsburg Manor Millhouse, Sleepy Hollow, New York. To view more images of Philipsburg Manor, click the photos."The schoolmaster …