April 16, 1872. The town of Knickerbocker, Texas, was founded by two of Irving's nephews, who named it in honor of their uncle's literary pseudonym. The city of Irving, Texas, states that it is named for Washington Irving. Irvington, New Jersey is also named after Irving, it was incorportared on March 27, 1874 from parts of Clinton Township (Clinton Township is now part of Newark, New Jersey since 1902. Irving Street in San Francisco is named after him. The Irving Park neighborhood in Chicago is named for him as well, though the original name of the subdivision was Irvington and then later Irving Park before annexation to Chicago. Gibbons Memorial Park, located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, is located on Irving Cliff, which was named after him. The Irvington neighborhood in Indianapolis is also one of the many communities named after him. Irving College (1838-90) in Irving College, Tennessee, was named for Irving. Works References Further reading Aderman, Ralph M. ed. Critical essays on Washington Irving (1990) online Apap, Christopher, and Tracy Hoffman. "Prospects for the Study of Washington Irving". Resources for American Literary Study 35 (2010): 3-27. online Bowden, Edwin T. Washington Irving bibliography (1989) online Brodwin, Stanley. The Old and New World romanticism of Washington Irving (1986) online Brooks, Van Wyck. The World Of Washington Irving (1944) online Burstein, Andrew. The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. (Basic Books, 2007). Bowers, Claude G. The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving. (Riverside Press, 1940). Hedges, William L. Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019). Hellman, George S. Washington Irving, Esquire. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1925). Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. (Arcade, 2008). LeMenager, Stephanie. "Trading Stories: Washington Irving and the Global West". American Literary History 15.4 (2003): 683-708. online McGann, Jerome. "Washington Irving", A History of New York", and American History". Early American Literature 47.2 (2012): 349-376. online. Myers, Andrew B., ed. A Century of commentary on the works of Washington Irving, 1860-1974 (1975) online Pollard, Finn. "From beyond the grave and across the ocean: Washington Irving and the problem of being a questioning American, 1809–20". American Nineteenth Century History 8.1 (2007): 81-101. Springer, Haskell S. Washington Irving: a reference guide (1976) online Williams, Stanley T. The Life of Washington Irving. 2 vols. (Oxford UP, 1935). vol 1 online; also vol 2 online Primary sources Irving, Pierre M. Life and Letters of Washington Irving. 4 vols.