They are associated with three estates: Beechwood, Rosemont, and Woodlea (now Sleepy Hollow Country Club); The Clear View School, a school complex; two religious properties: Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Scarborough Presbyterian Church; and Sparta Cemetery, which dates back to before the Revolutionary War.

[1][2] Beechwood is an estate built in 1780;[6]: 8  it was most notably the home of National City Bank president Frank A. Vanderlip and his family.

The area was developed in the late 1990s with five up-scale homes on a cul-de-sac called Admiral Wordens Lane[4]: 205 [5] The mansion was used by Frank Vanderlip as a dormitory for Scarborough School boarding students.

Its first service was in 1839 in a small schoolhouse on an acre of Creighton's Beechwood property, at the corner of Albany Post and Sleepy Hollow Roads.

Irving, the author of "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", brought and planted the ivy surrounding the church.

The ivy of the parish house was brought from the Argonne battlefield, after World War I, by Narcissa Vanderlip.

Many found seats in the cloister, and others sat on chairs outside the doors of the church.On July 5, 2015, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church closed after 175 years in operation.

[14] William Rockefeller, who lived nearby at Rockwood Hall, was a regular attendee of the church in the last few years of his life.

[6]: 30  In 1892, after enlarging and remodeling the store, adding diamond-paned windows and replacing the floors and porches, the building was first used as a church.

[6]: 30 After Elliott Fitch Shepard's death in March 1893, Margaret donated the present church building and manse.

The Italian Renaissance Revival building was of limestone delivered from Indiana by railroad, requiring a special track laid at Scarborough to accommodate the delivery.

Burden Jr.[20] It was built of pink granite rubble with limestone trim, with a steeple supported by flying buttresses.

The interior has mosaic tile floors, fluted pilasters with gilded capitals, a coffered ceiling made of redwood, and stained-glass windows.

The preschool serves families in Briarcliff Manor and Scarborough, Ossining, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Pocantico Hills, and Pleasantville.

[25][26] In 1910, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard sold the estate to Frank A. Vanderlip and William Rockefeller, who converted it into a country club.

[8] In September 1780, HMS Vulture fired a cannonball into the gravestone of Abraham Ladew, Jr., who died in 1774, at the age of 7 years.

[29] The Vulture was traveling south from Croton Point to pick up Major John André, a rendezvous that never occurred; Andre was captured in Tarrytown on his way to the vessel.