That wartime history would later help inspire one of America's most famous ghost stories.

The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow had stood for more than a century before Washington Irving immortalized it and brought it to the world’s attention in 1820 with his story of The Headless Horseman ...

The San Anselmo neighborhood most of us know as “Sleepy Hollow” was once part of the Mexican Land Grant, Rancho Canada de Herrera, that was first given to Presidio soldier Domingo Sais in 1839. In ...

They say history is written by the winners, but the hit Fox drama Sleepy Hollow takes that a step further. The second season of Sleepy Hollow starts Sept. 22 and one of the things I'm looking forward ...

Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is making a comeback. The tale of the Headless Horseman chasing the hapless Ichabod Crane has not only been adapted to a prime-time drama on Fox ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to historian Elizabeth Bradley about the 200th anniversary of the publication of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Two hundred years ago, Washington Irving created a character who's ...