Headstones damaged at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery immortalized by Washington Irving’s literary classic
The pastor says someone has done subtle-but-significant damage to historic headstones, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported Thursday.
In Sleepy Hollow, there’s no escaping the legend of the Headless Horseman.
Two hundred years ago, author Washington Irving, familiar with the Old Dutch Church, took a name from a headstone for a main character, Katrina Van Tassel.
The historic marker was damaged by a female visitor in recent days.
“She put some kind of chemical solvent on and then something that would be plastered up against it to take the impression,” Rev. Jeff Gargano said.
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Historic gravestones damaged at 2 Westchester cemeteries
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 27, 2021, 12:45pm EDT
Police say over a dozen
historic headstones were damaged at two Westchester cemeteries this weekend.
News 12 was told that a woman
used a harsh chemical to create molds of tombstones at Sleepy Hollow s Old
Dutch Church Cemetery. The woman was told to leave, and she did, but headed over to the
historic Sparta Cemetery in Ossining where she did the same thing.causing
more damage.
The stones are now tarnished
with a white film that may be impossible to remove. Several that had this white film over the tops and it was evident that the exact same thing happened to them, says Jane Botticeli, president of the Ossining Historic Cemetery.