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Michael Thomas Leibrandt: A headless horseman on the Delaware? Michael Thomas Leibrandt November 14, 2025 November 13, 2025

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The history of the City of Philadelphia — some of the deepest going back all the way to the very inception of our nation — occasionally evokes as much of a fear reaction as it does longevity. But like most American metropolises whose history dates to one of the earliest of European colonization on this continent, Philadelphia has its share of legendary tales.

It’s been two hundred and five years since author Washington Irving put ink to paper and created The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — a perfectly written scary story partially based on his trip to a quiet upstate New Yor

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