He was captured in Tarrytown carrying plans of West Point. Andre was hanged in Tappan on October 2, 1780. The cannon sits in front of the Peekskill Museum.

Sherwood is buried in Ossining's Sparta Cemetery. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) is buried at Bethel. She was an African-American playwright whose "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play written by an African-American woman produced on Broadway (1959).

John Byron Goldsborough moved to Croton in 1895 to supervise construction of the New Croton Dam. He is buried at Bethel. The still active cemetery has been the only public burying ground in the Village for over 200 years.

Both Bethel Chapel and the Asbury Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.