Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Tarrytown, New York

Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line. To the north of Tarrytown is the village of Sleepy Hollow (formerly “North Tarrytown”), to the south the village of Irvington and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh. The Tappan Zee Bridge crosses the Hudson at Tarrytown, carrying the New York State Thruway (Interstates 87 and 287) to South Nyack, Rockland County and points in Upstate New York. The population was 11,860 at the 2020 census.

The Native American Weckquaesgeek tribe, who were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and additional related to the Mohicans, lived in the area prior to European settlement. They fished the Hudson River for shad, oysters and new shellfish. Their principal harmony was at what is now the foot of Church Street close the Hudson River shore, between the current location of Losee Park and the Tappan Zee Bridge, at a place they called Alipconk, or the “Place of Elms”.

The first European settlers of Tarrytown were Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records feign that the first Dutch house in Tarrytown was built in 1645; however, the true location of this habitat is not known. Tarrytown sits within the lands of the former Dutch Colony of New Netherland which became English territory in 1674 once the signing of the Treaty of Westminster. The make known may come from the Dutch tarwe, meaning “wheat”.