Cemetery #229335
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
0
documented records
≈ 6.8k–14k
approx. capacity (graves)
0.338 km²
cemetery area · 83.4 acres
Oct 18, 2026
last modified
About this cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic, non-sectarian cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, said to have inspired Washington Irving's tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Buried here are Washington Irving, William Rockefeller, Walter Chrysler and Andrew Carnegie, among other well-known figures.
Cemetery location
GPS coordinates: 41.096845° N, 73.860115° W Directions in Google Maps (opens in a new tab)
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Nearby cemeteries
The closest other burial grounds listed on EveryStone.
- The Old Dutch Church Burying Grounds, Mount Pleasant 660 m away · Mount Pleasant
- Rockefeller Family Cemetery 660 m away · Sleepy Hollow Manor
- Sparta Cemetery 4.5 km away · Scarborough
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery 5.4 km away · Hawthorne
- Elmsford Reformed Church and Cemetery 5.8 km away · Elmsford
- Oak Hill Cemetery 5.8 km away · Nyack
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery 6.0 km away · Hawthorne
- Mount Eden Cemetery 6.1 km away · Valhalla
- Kensico Cemetery 6.6 km away · Valhalla
- Rural Cemetery 7.0 km away · Central Nyack
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How big is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery covers about 33.8 hectares (83 acres), about the same size as Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków. It is the 75th largest of the 4,596 cemeteries we list in New York.