Irvington, New York

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Local Information for Irvington, NY

Latitude: 41.034371 -- Longitude: -73.865471

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The village was founded in 1850 as "Dearman," but in 1854 changed its name, by popular vote, to Irvington, after the American author Washington Irving, whose nearby residence, "Sunnyside", still exists today, preserved as a museum. Although it was considered to be part of Irvington at the time, the neighboring village of Tarrytown incorporated first, and when the official boundaries were drawn, Sunnyside ended up in Tarrytown rather than Irvington. Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown) is the nearby village after which Irving wrote his most famous work, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Among Irvington's other famous residents was Madame C.J. Walker, America's first female millionaire. An African American woman, she made her fortune in creating the first ever hair-straightening method, which including a shampooing technique along with a chemical product that helped the process. In 1917, Madame Walker had a $250,000 country home built on Broadway in Irvington. -- Source: Wikipedia.com