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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 133

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] son Park " and the places above it, and also on the north from the Ichabod Crane Bridge, the point where the river turns toward the Hudson, but east of the old Post Road, now known as Broadway, stands the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, with the burying ground adjacent. North of it, on the same aide of the road, is the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, and beyond that, " Pocantico Grove," the summer resi-dence of the late G. F. Sacchi. Still farther north, on the same side, are lands owned by Mrs. Anson G. Phelps, and the estate of the late William H. Aspin-wall, the latter extending well up to where the old Croton Aqueduct crosses the road. But between Broadway and the Hudson River on the west, there is the old Philipse Manor house, with the old mill just across the Pocantico, and thence northward there is a succession of fine residences with ample grounds around them, extending up to the di-viding line, between the townships of Mount Pleas-ant and Ossining. The old Manor house is a relic of the past. No one knows exactly when it was built, probably between 1665 and 1685, but the man who built it evidently put it there to stay. Mr. William F. Minnerly, well known in Tarrytown as a builder, states that in 186-1 he was employed to make some alterations in the old Manor-House. One was in taking dowil the chimney, which was very large. In the second story he found that a room about four feet square had been built in the chimney, to be used as a smoke-house for smoking meat.