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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Sleepy Hollow Manor (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Sleepy Hollow Manor. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Sleepy Hollow Manor ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Sleepy Hollow Manor: Sleepy Holw. Mnr. (or less commonly used: Sleepy Hlw. Mnr. or Sleepy Hllw. Mnr.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Sleepy Hollow Manor. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sleepy Hollow Manor.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Cemeteries Near Sleepy Hollow Manor ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow Manor.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Sleepy Hollow Manor - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sleepy Hollow Manor covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sleepy Hollow Manor, with the one closest to Sleepy Hollow Manor listed first.

  • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Sparta Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Gate of Heaven Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Nyack Rural Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Rural Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Kensico Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. Eden Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • All Souls Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Dale Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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    • Gethsemane Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Rockland Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ferncliff Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferncliff Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ferncliff Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Hartsdale.
      • The Ferncliff Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Hartsdale Ferncliff Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64525 <1>

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

While we didn't find Sleepy Hollow Manor in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sleepy Hollow Manor.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Sleepy Hollow Manor, with the one closest to Sleepy Hollow Manor listed first.

  • Sleepy Hollow
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Pocantico Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Tarrytown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Eastview
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Eastview is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastview
  • Scarborough
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Upper Nyack
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Upper Nyack is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Nyack
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,177 people
  • Nyack
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Nyack is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyack
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,133 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nyack <3>
  • South Nyack
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • South Nyack is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Nyack
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,305 people
  • Grand View-on-Hudson
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Grand View-on-Hudson is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View-on-Hudson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
  • Irvington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Elmsford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasantville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
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    • Rockland Lake
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Rockland Lake is located in Rockland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland Lake
    • Valley Cottage
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Valley Cottage is located in Rockland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Cottage
    • Blauvelt
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sleepy Hollow Manor. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sleepy Hollow Manor.

Newspapers Published in Sleepy Hollow Manor ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 101 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sleepy Hollow Manor.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sleepy Hollow Manor, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sleepy Hollow Manor.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Sleepy Hollow Manor:

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sleepy Hollow Manor, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sleepy Hollow Manor) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.