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Visit Philipsburg Manor, a colonial mill and trading complex where an enslaved community lived and labored for generations. Learn about their stories, culture, and resistance through primary documents and guided tours.
Learn about the colonial-era farming, milling, and trading center that became Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. Explore the restored manor house, the Old Dutch Church, and the mill pond where Ichabod Crane walked.
Philipsburg Manor (sometimes referred to as Philipse Manor) was a manor located north of New York City in Westchester County in the Province of New York. Netherlands-born Frederick Philipse I and two partners made the initial purchase of land that had been part of a Dutch patroonship owned by Adriaen van der Donck.
Visit Philipsburg Manor, a former slave plantation and mill complex in Sleepy Hollow Country. Learn about its history and see how it inspired Washington Irving's \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\".
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Philipsburg Manor is a living history museum, where visitors enter the year 1750, when the Manor was a thriving milling and trading complex that was home to 23 enslaved individuals of African descent.
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June 23, 1980. Philipsburg Manor House is a historic house in the Upper Mills section of the former sprawling Colonial-era estate known as Philipsburg Manor. Together with a water mill and trading site the house is operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley.
Learn about the history of slavery and trade at Philipsburg Manor, a colonial complex in Sleepy Hollow, New York. See the gristmill, wharf, manor house, barn, and slave garden, and watch a play about a slave insurrection.
