Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Washington Irving set his 1820 tale in this real village on the Hudson, where a Hessian trooper decapitated by a cannonball rides the night roads hunting for his head. The old Dutch burying ground and the bridge over the Pocantico are real places you can walk, and the town legally renamed itself Sleepy Hollow in 1996. Irving himself lies buried in the cemetery here.
Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County (NY). Source: A literary legend rooted in a real, walkable village. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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