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IN SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY; MONUMENT IN MEMORY OF SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. To be Unveiled by the Residents of Tarrytown and Vicinity Next Fri- day -- It Will Stand on Battle Hill, a Part of an Old Redoubt Thrown Up About 1779 to Guard the Little Wooden Bridge Over the Poeontico River.

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The soldiers of the Revolution who lived in and near Tarrytown are to be honored by their descendants and others next Friday by the unveiling of a monument in their memory. This monument, which is already in position, stands in the old Sleepy Hollow Cemetery -- that famous burial place. The remains of Washington Irving are interred there, and his home, Sunnyside, is but a short distance below Tarrytown.

October 14, 1894

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