Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, near the Old Dutch Church on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow ( formerly North Tarrytown), is the final resting place for writers Thomas Beer, Fred Hayden Carruth, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, and Washington Irving.
Sunnyside, Washington Irving’s home, is located on West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9 in Tarrytown, New York; it is open to the public.
West Point, 50 miles North of New York City, has many literary connections. Among the writers associated with West Point are George Horatio Derby (graduated 1846), Timothy Dwight (chaplain 1777-1779), William Faulkner (visited 1962), Charles King (graduated 1866), James Gates Percival (assistant surgeon & professor of chemistry, 1824), Edgar Allen Poe (cadet, 1830-1831), Carl Sandburg … Continued
Henry Ward Beecher’s house was built in 1875 and is still standing.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery is the final resting place for writers Anton Bilotti, Bob Considine, Ernesto Lecuona, Conde Nast, Heywood Broun, George Jean Nathan, Dorothy Kilgallen, William J. Burns, and Westbrook Pegler.
Margaret Sanger lived here from 1924 through the 1940s.
Vassar College was the alma mater of many poets and writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, Muriel Rukeyser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the poet/librarian Marianne Moore.
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York, was Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home; it is now an artists’ colony and retreat.
The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site is the location of Val-Kill.