TAR'RYTOWN. A village in Westchester County, N. Y.. 25 miles north of New York City; on the east side of Tappan Bay, an expansion of the Hudson River, and on the New York Cen tral and Hudson River Railroad (Map: New York, G 4). It is picturesquely situated on ground rising from the river and is an attrac tive residential place. The vicinity of the vil lage, which has been made famous by Washing ton Irving (see SLEEPY HOLLOW) , is of great interest also through its connection with the his tory of the Revolutionary period. Irving's bur ial place is in the graveyard of the old Dutch Church, about three-fourths of a mile north of the village. The Dutch Church, dating from 1699, and the Philipse Manor House, built in 1683, are the most noteworthy of the older buildings. Other features of Tarrytown include Miss Mason's School, familiarly known as the `Castle,' the Tarrytown Lyceum, with a library of more than 4000 volumes, the Institution of Mercy (Catholic), and Irving Institute. Drill
and automobile works are the leading indus trial establishments. The government is vested in a president and board of trustees, who hold office respectively for one year and two years. The water-works are owned and operated by the village. Population, in 1890, 3562; in 1900, 4770.
The name Tarrytown is said to have been de rived from the hypothetical first settler, one Terry, who came in 1645. In 1683 Vredryk Flypse (Frederick Philipse) moved here and ten years later secured manorial rights to the ad jacent territory. Major Andre was captured here on September 23, 1780. About two miles south of the village, at Irvington, is Sunnyside, the home of Washington Irving. Tarrytown was in corporated in 1S70. Consult: Bacon, Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (New York, 1897) ; and a sketch by Hamilton Wright Mabie in Powell's Historic Towns of the Middle States (New York, 1S99).