![]() People came for miles to attend baptisms, marriages and Sunday services at the Dutch church, and the mill was a perennial destination in harvest time. In the early 1700s, Sleepy Hollow became a hub of activity for surrounding farmers. ![]() At this time, only a handful of tenant farms were under cultivation, prompting one colonial governor to complain that the Philipse family had been granted too much for too little. This included the manor house, mills, church and surrounding lands. Philipse’s son Adolph inherited the northern half of Philipsburg-Upper Philipsburg, which extended from Dobbs F erry to the Croton River. He and his second wife, Catharine van Cortlandt, were buried in the crypt of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. The Upper Mills and a few small farms covered the area of today’s village of Sleepy Hollow.įrederick Philipse I died in 1702. A large part of this land was retained as forest and not put to the plow. He reserved for himself the mill on the Pocantico and several hundred acres known as the Upper Mills. He encouraged tenant farmers to settle on his manor by offering liberal leases. ![]() Philipse had a mill, manor house, and church constructed on the lower reaches of the Pocantico River about 1685. Philipse’s purchases in Westchester County were confirmed by royal charter as the Manor of Philipsburg in 1693. One such purchase, the Pocantico Purchase, included virtually all of present-day Sleepy Hollow. ![]() In that period an ambitious Dutchman, Frederick Philipse, gained influence with early English governors of New York, enabling him to purchase large tracts of land from tribes along the east side of the Hudson. In 1664 the British seized the colony of New Netherlands and renamed it New York. It now serves as the name of the incorporated village. Sleepy Hollow appears to be a later, Anglicized version of this name and actually applied to the valley of the Pocantico River. In 1655 Adriaen Van der Donck, a Dutch colonist, first published a work which referred to the Pocantico River as Slapershaven or, literally, Sleepers’ Haven. Exactly when Europeans first settled in the Sleepy Hollow area is unclear. During the early days of New Netherlands, relations been this tribe and the Dutch were relatively peaceful, but by 1643 the Dutch were at war with the Weckquaesgecks and several other tribes of the region. This Native American tribe is variously described as a Delaware Tribe or a Mohican Tribe, or perhaps some mix of the two. In the year of the Half Moon, 1609, the two square miles that make up the Village of Sleepy Hollow belonged to the larger domain of the Weckquaesgeck Indians. In addition to its great history and fabulous legends, the village offers a wide variety of outdoor adventures and activities, with parks, forests, rivers, lakes, streams and trails along one of the most scenic stretches of the Hudson River-from trout fishing to horseback riding, to biking, boating, hiking, or just escaping into the woodlands of Sleepy Hollow. Defying the passage of time, this magical area has managed to preserve much of the history and natural beauty which have always drawn people to it. Sleepy Hollow Farm, comprising 115 acres, is certainly a crown jewel of Pomfret and Woodstock.The names of the famous and the infamous, both historic and legendary, have left their mark on this quiet Hudson River village 25 miles north of Manhattan. Privately tucked away in a secluded valley there is a rustic log cabin off grid overlooking another beautiful pond. The guest or caretaker's house is the old brick Cloudland Schoolhouse that sits atop the hill overlooking the hollow. There are three bedrooms on the second floor and a private master bedroom suite on the first floor. A new barn connected to the main house has been architecturally blended with the old, adding a radiant heated six stall stable, hay storage, and a large game room with a dramatic stairway and cathedral ceiling. The cape style house has the original three center chimney fireplaces, the wide honey colored board floors, and exposed beams. Preserved forever in the Vermont Land Trust, one may anticipate another two hundred years of pleasure while gazing upon this beautiful old Pomfret homestead. Sleepy Hollow Farm This pastoral masterpiece befittingly has the address of Cloudland Road.
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