Ichabod Crane Central School District in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named "Ichabod Crane". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character
Nettie Depp to men. Nettie Depp died of breast cancer on August 3, 1932, and was buried at Refuge Cemetery at Eighty-Eight in Barren County. It was estimated that the crowd that attended her funeral was more than 1500. She was the great-great aunt of actor Johnny Depp. Nettie Depp Nettie Bayless Courts Depp (November 21, 1874 – August 3, 1932) was an education reformer and the first woman public official in Barren County, Kentucky when she won election as public school superintendent in 1913. She held the position through 1917. Depp was the daughter of John Burks Depp (1845-1927), a member