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Tarrytown (târ`ētoun), village (1990 pop. 10,739), Westchester co., SE N.Y., a residential suburb of New York City, on the E bank of the Hudson opposite Nyack; settled in the 17th cent. by the Dutch, inc. 1870. It has several corporate headquarters, and its industries include food processing and the manufacture of laboratory instruments and heating equipment. Tarrytown is the eastern terminus of the Tappan Zee Bridge and is the seat of Marymount College of Fordham Univ. Of interest are Sunnyside, the home of Washington Irving Irving, Washington, 1783–1859, American author and diplomat, b. New York City. Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad as a man of letters, and he was a literary idol at home.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Sleepy Hollow cemetery, where Irving is buried; Philipsburg Manor (see Philipse Manor Philipse Manor, colonial estate of Frederick Philipse, confirmed by a royal charter (1693), extending from the present North Tarrytown, N.Y., to the present Bronx, with the Hudson River on the west and the Bronx River on the east. ..... Click the link for more information. ), an estate including a Dutch farmhouse (c.1683) and a restored operating gristmill; Lyndhurst (1838), a Gothic Revival mansion; and a Rockefeller estate. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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