The Hall of Fame Essay Contest was planned as a remembrance of the men and women whose leadership and commitment helped make this area famous and interesting. Students are given the opportunity to exercise their research skills and discover interesting facts and stories about their home villages. The Historical Society serving Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, the Warner Public Library, the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, the Public Schools of the Tarrytowns and our two Villages have worked together to make this event a yearly celebration. An Awards Ceremony is held at the Warner Library where the mayors of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow present two cash prizes to the Sleepy Hollow High School student winners. The essays are framed and displayed on the Third Floor at the Warner Library.

— Winning Essays —

2018

Beatrice Jackson
by Lucy Rogers

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Norman Mingo
by Sarah Clayton

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2017

Kathryn Davis
by Maggie Singman

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Eddie Collins
by Andrew Walek

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2016

Ambrose Kingsland
by Daniel Livingston

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Frederic Philipse
by Virginia Ruhland-Mauhs

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2015

Margaret Hardenbroeck
by Nadia Fassa

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Robert Goldblatt
by Katie Miles

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2014

Jay Gould
by Liam O'Sullivan

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Dr. John Robertson
by Elizabeth Silver

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​2013

Elsie Janis
by Sara Friedman
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Amanda Foster
by Katherine Kachnowski
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​2012

Rockwell Kent
by Lily Sands
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John Paulding
by Claire Royston
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​2011

Worcester Reed & Cornelia Blakemore Warner
by Madeline McGovern
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Nathan Cobb
by Laura Epstein
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​2010

Cornelia Beekman
by Emily Eagan
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Minna Irving
by Amelia Rose Bonvento
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​2008/2009

William L. Wallace
by Olesya Bylim
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General Howard Carroll, Jr.
by Gabrielle Cellante
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​2007/2008

Frank Romer Pierson
by Elyssa Swanson
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Cassity Eliza Mason
by Sarah Feigelson
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​2006/2007

Jacob Ackerman
by Alee Praino
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Isadora Duncan
by Nora Burke
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​2005/2006

Rear Admiral John L. Worden
by Christopher Verdi
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
by Anthony Hinds
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​2004/2005

John Charles Fremont
by Chris Miller
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Helen Gould Shepard
by Katelyn Moore
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