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That is the setting Washington Irving invented in 1820 for\"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,\" one of the earliest short stories ever written by an American. It follows a tall, gangly schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane, who arrives in asleepy Dutch village and hears whispers of a Headless Horseman said to gallop the roads at night. With just a few pages, Irving created a spooky mood that readers still feel two hundred years later.  \nThat eerie mood didn't come from a stranger to the area, but from a writer who  \nknew the Hudson Valley by heart. Irving was born in New York City in 1783, the same year the American Revolution officially ended, and his parents named him after George Washington himself. As a young man he traveled and worked in Europe, where most people assumed serious literature could only come from the Old World. Then his stories proved them wrong, making him one of the first American authors to become genuinely famous overseas.  \nFame like that needed a book worth talking about, and Irving delivered it in a clever disguise. \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\" appeared in a collection called \"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,\" published in installments in 1819 and 1820 under a made-up name. That same book held \"Rip Van Winkle,\" the tale of aman who naps for twenty years and wakes to a changed world. Readers in both America and Britain gobbled up the collection, and suddenly an American writer was being praised in the same breath as European ones.  \nPraise for the storytelling grew partly because Irving borrowed shapes that felt older than the country itself. The idea of a headless rider was not brand-new; similar figures appear in German and Irish folk tales that Irish and German immigrants carried across the ocean. Irving took those wandering legends and rooted them in a real American place, tying them to the Dutch families who had settled the Hudson Valley generations before. By blending imported folklore with local color, he made a ghost story that felt both familiar and completely his own.  \nMaking a place feel real on the page can, over time, reshape the real place too. For  \nyears the village near the story was officially called North Tarrytown, but in 1996 its residents voted torename it Sleepy Hollow. Today visitors can walk through the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and cross thereconstructed bridge that echoes the one from the tale. Every autumn the town leans into its legend with lantern tours, festivals, and, of course, a great many jack-o'-lanterns.  \nAll that celebrating traces back to a writer who is buried right there, in the town his imagination helped name. Washington Irving died in 1859 and rests in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, only a short walk from where his fictional horseman supposedly rode. His story has been retold in cartoons, films, and even a television series, keeping the Headless Horseman galloping long after its author's pen went still. Not bad for a tale you can read in about half an hour, written by a man who liked hiding behind invented names.  \nThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) In what year did Washington Irving invent the setting for \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\"?\u003Cbr>A. He invented it in 1859. B. He invented it in 1820.\u003Cbr>C. He invented it in 1996. D. 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