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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.
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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