Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown’s other history

The Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown”™s new exhibit “From House Calls to Hospitals” (through Nov. 30) includes this salute to the first chapter of the American Red Cross in Tarrytown, founded by Marie Jackson Plater, seen in the photograph on the desk. Courtesy The Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown.

Almost everyone knows about “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Washington Irving”™s 1820 short story about the Headless Horseman.”¯ Lesser known ”“ but just as important — is the development of medicine in the area, particularly Phelps Hospital, part of Northwell Health, in Sleep Hollow. 

It”™s a subject plumbed in The Historical Society of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown”™s new exhibit “From House Calls to Hospitals” (through Nov. 30), which charts the hospital”™s trajectory from a donated 69-acre plot of land in 1956 to a complex that is in the midst of the largest expansion in its history. That  

includes a new PET-CT scan for cancer patients (opened earlier this year), a Center for Advanced Procedures in Neurosciences and a cutting-edge Maternal-Child Health Unit. 

Hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and by appointment. The historical society is at 1 Grove St. in Tarrytown. For more, contact historicalsociety10591@gmail.com.