Sherman Park
Sherman Park is named after the poet Frank Dempster Sherman, born in Peekskill, New York.
Region: Hudson Valley
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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.
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside
Sunnyside, Washington Irving’s home, is located on West Sunnyside Lane, off Route 9 in Tarrytown, New York; it is open to the public.
Horace Greeley House
Iroki, Theodore Dreiser House
Theodore Dreiser had the house Iroki built near Mount Kisco, and lived there from 1929-1938. The private residence has the original stone exterior; a cabin he built for a studio also remains on the property.
Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery is the final resting place for Oscar Hammerstein II, Malcolm X (Hajj Malick El Shabazz) and Cornell (George Hopley) Woolrich.
New Castle Town Hall
Horace Greeley lived in Chappaqua for the last 18 years of his life. There is a room at the New Castle Town Hall with some of his belongings and artifacts.
United States Military Academy at West Point
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 House
Henry Ward Beecher’s house was built in 1875 and is still standing.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
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.