Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse

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2589 State Route 9H
Kinderhook, NY 12106
The Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse is a 19th-century building that served as a local single-room public school into the 1940s. Recently awarded a 'Legends & Lore' marker by the New York Folklore Society & William G. Pomeroy Foundation honoring Washington Irving's "Sleepy Hollow" character 'Ichabod Crane', who was patterned after the original Kinderhook Schoolteacher, Jesse Merwin--hence the schoolhouse name. Washington Irving was a friend of President Martin Van Buren and boarded at the Van Ness home in Kinderhook for about eight weeks in 1809 after the death of his fiancée. Schoolteacher, Jesse Merwin, was also a boarder at the Van Ness home, and the two twenty-something bachelors went fishing and otherwise socialized with the small colony of intellectuals in the otherwise agrarian community. Known as a "classic of American literature", Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow's greatest character was conceived right here.

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CRAIG HOCKENBERRY: Ichabod Crane School House
12/24/2022

CRAIG HOCKENBERRY I went to the Ichabod Crane School house. I took about 100 photos as I reflect...

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even though closed Information all over the grounds
7/28/2022

We dropped by the Schoolhouse on our way to President Martin Van Buren's house it's a mile away on t...

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Enjoyable Step Back in History
7/11/2017

Having attended a small elementary school this place brought back fond memories of the small classro...

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