Note 21 — SUNNYSIDE, TARRYTOWN BENSON J. LOSSING

“Over a deep, black part of the stream, not far from the church,” says Mr. Irving, in his Legend of Sleepy Hollow, “was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it and the bridge itself were thickly shaded by overhanging trees which cast a gloom about it even in the daytime, but occasioned a fearful darkness at night.”