The site of the school is considered to be one possibility – of many – for the location of the Elizabeth Van Tassel house, a Revolutionary War-era tavern mentioned by Washington Irving in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".Bacon, Edgard Mayhew. Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (1898) cited in Logan, Jim."Sleepy Hollow Country: Site of the Elizabeth Van Tassel house, later known as Mott Tavern" at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery website
