Bones led
Katrina to the altar.

Through this valley, we get a glimpse of the site where Philipse
erected, partly of brick brought from Holland, a manor house,* a mill,*
and a church,* all of which are still standing.

"There is probably no other locality in America, taking into
account history, tradition, the old church, the manor house, and
the mill, which so entirely conserves the form and spirit of
Dutch civilization in the New World.... This group of buildings
ranks in historic interest if not in historic importance with
Faneuil Hall, Independence Hall, the ruined church tower at
Jamestown, the old gateway at St. Augustine, and the Spanish
cabildo on Jackson Square in New Orleans. And the time will come
when pilgrimages will be made to this ancient beautiful home of
some of those ideals and habits of life which have given form and
structure to American civilization."--Hamilton Wright Mabie.

[Illustration: Old Dutch Church (Built About 1686) at
Tarrytown, N.Y.

Irving says: "The sequestered situation of the church seems always
to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. It stands on
a knoll, surrounded by locust trees and lofty elms, from among
which its white-washed walls shine modestly forth, like Christian
purity beaming through the shades of retirement." The church is
still standing.]

During the War of Independence, Tarrytown was the scene of numerous
conflicts between the "cowboys" and "skinners," bands of unorganized
partisans who carried on a kind of guerilla warfare, the former acting
in the interest of the colonists, and the latter in that of the king. On
the old post road on Sept. 24, 1780, Maj. Andr['e] was captured by three
Continentals, John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac van Wart. The
spot where Andr['e] was captured is now marked with a monument--a marble
shaft surmounted by a statue of a Continental soldier.

Tarrytown lies principally along either side of a broad and
winding highway, laid out in 1723, from N.Y.C. to Albany. It was
called the King's Highway till the War of Independence, then
called Albany Post Road, and the section of it in Tarrytown is
known now as Broadway. The delights of traveling in the days
when the road was first laid out are suggested in the following
description: "The coach was without springs, and the seats were
hard, and often backless. T