Setting in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there..."  See in text (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

"dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life..."  See in text (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

"one of the quietest places in the whole world..."  See in text (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)