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“the same as it was in 1750!”
Philipsburg Manor is a historic house, water mill, and trading site located on US 9 in the village of Sleepy Hollow, New York. It is now operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley; an admission fee is charged. It was originally a manor house within Upper Mills section of Philipsburg Manor. Todays villages of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown are descendants of this colonial-era farming, milling, and trading center. In 1653 Frederick Philipse came to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as a carpenter for the Dutch West India company. Through canny business skill, an astute sense of politics, and two very advantageous marriages, Philipse came to control 52,000 acres of what is now Westchester County. When the British evicted the Dutch and renamed the colony New York, Philipse switched his allegiance to the British crown and business continued as usual. His heirs were less fortunate in reading the winds of change—they sided with the British during the American Revolution and lost everything in the aftermath. Philipse’s trading center has been restored to its appearance in 1750 when it was home to several hundred tenant farmers and two dozen African slaves. Programs and events show how Dutch, African, and Native American cultures became entwined at this colonial outpost. Also surviving from Philipse’s time is the church he built for the occupants of this part of his estate. Both the Old Dutch Church (still owned and used by the congregation) and Philipsburg Manor make appearances in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving wrote of Ichabod Crane “Our man of letters, therefore, was peculiarly happy in the smiles of all the country damsels. How he would figure among them in the church-yard . . . or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address.” You’ll need to supply your own bevy of country damsels.
I wish this place was open. However, even with it being closed, you can still get a few good pictures of the place as well as the stone relief of the headless horseman chasing Mr. Crane. Also, the... Read more
We signed up for the tour and it was well worth it! We learned about the history of the manor including the owners and enslaved people who lived and worked there. Visiting the mill, original... Read more
Philipsburg Manor is a next to the office to secure tickets to tour the Rockefeller Mansion Kykuit. To tour Philipsburg is a separate fee. We looked at it from across the little pond. There's... Read more
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