Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord 

This article is about the cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. For the cemetery of the same name in New York, see Sleepy Hollow Cemetery .
Family plot of the Thoreaus in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
The grave of Louisa May Alcott at Sleepy Hollow.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery located on Bedford Street near the center of Concord, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the United States' greatest authors and thinkers, especially on a hill known as "Author's Ridge."

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History

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Sleepy Hollow was designed in 1855 by noted landscape architects Cleveland and Copeland, and has been in use ever since. It was dedicated on September 29, 1855; Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a dedication speech and would be buried there decades later.1

People are still being buried there. The back of the newer portion of the cemetery leads to a path system which connects to the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Notable burials

See also

References

  1. ^ McAleer, John. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984: 664. ISBN 0316553417.

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