Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, North Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York
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In Sleepy Hollow, the dead outnumber the living. The population of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery outnumbers the living residents of the community by about a four to one ratio. Originally called Tarrytown Cemetery, the name was changed to honor the wishes of perhaps its most famous resident, Washington Irving. Other notables marking time there include Andrew Carnegie, Elizabeth Arden, Walter Chrysler – and names which ring of American aristocracy such as Rockefeller, Astor and Helmsley. But what is truly startling is a name such as Gurnee, which frankly means nothing to me, but who is immortalized in death with a structure larger than many of our homes today. Even with living neighbors like Bill Clinton and the remaining Rockefellers, it just goes to show that the real estate most dear in Sleepy Hollow still belongs to the dead.
