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The Circa 1850 Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
The Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse is a rural 19th-century building that served as a local single-room public school into the 1940s.
The Schoolhouse site features a new 'Legends & Lore' historical marker awarded by the New York Folklore Society & William G. Pomeroy Foundation honoring Washington Irving's "Sleepy Hollow" character 'Ichabod Crane'—who was patterned after Jesse Merwin, the original Kinderhook Schoolteacher who taught at the earliest one-room log-cabin school here.
Dedication of the new marker was accompanied by a public reading of an excerpt of the short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and screening of an adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by documentary filmmaker Jim Ormond.
Washington Irving was a friend of Martin Van Buren and lived at the Van Ness home in Kinderhook for several months in 1809 after the death of his fiancée. The author wrote portions of A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty in Kinderhook, during which time he befriended Jesse Merwin, the Kinderhook schoolteacher. Two twenty-something intellectuals in rural Columbia County, Irving and Merwin became friends, rode trails and went fishing together; after Irving moved on, the two friends continued their correspondence for more than three decades.
Each year, hundreds of fourth graders from all over Columbia County and the Capital Region visit the Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse and discover first-hand how arithmetic and cursive handwriting were learned in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how a Columbia County schoolteacher has been immortalized in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Originally located on land at the corner of 9H and Fischer Road, the schoolhouse was the second school built on that site, and was moved to the Luykas Van Alen house property after the local school district centralized. During the 1970s it was restored to its 1930s appearance.
Currently the metal roof needs a new coating.
The Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse is open seasonally--all summer and fall--along with the Luykas Van Alen House.
2589 Rt 9H
Kinderhook, NY 12106
CCHS will not share or sell a donor's personal information with any other party, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.
The Schoolhouse site features a new 'Legends & Lore' historical marker awarded by the New York Folklore Society & William G. Pomeroy Foundation honoring Washington Irving's "Sleepy Hollow" character 'Ichabod Crane'—who was patterned after Jesse Merwin, the original Kinderhook Schoolteacher who taught at the earliest one-room log-cabin school here.
Dedication of the new marker was accompanied by a public reading of an excerpt of the short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and screening of an adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by documentary filmmaker Jim Ormond.
Washington Irving was a friend of Martin Van Buren and lived at the Van Ness home in Kinderhook for several months in 1809 after the death of his fiancée. The author wrote portions of A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty in Kinderhook, during which time he befriended Jesse Merwin, the Kinderhook schoolteacher. Two twenty-something intellectuals in rural Columbia County, Irving and Merwin became friends, rode trails and went fishing together; after Irving moved on, the two friends continued their correspondence for more than three decades.
Each year, hundreds of fourth graders from all over Columbia County and the Capital Region visit the Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse and discover first-hand how arithmetic and cursive handwriting were learned in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how a Columbia County schoolteacher has been immortalized in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Originally located on land at the corner of 9H and Fischer Road, the schoolhouse was the second school built on that site, and was moved to the Luykas Van Alen house property after the local school district centralized. During the 1970s it was restored to its 1930s appearance.
Currently the metal roof needs a new coating.
The Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse is open seasonally--all summer and fall--along with the Luykas Van Alen House.
2589 Rt 9H
Kinderhook, NY 12106
CCHS will not share or sell a donor's personal information with any other party, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.
