Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord
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."
History
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. [McAleer, John. "Ralph Waldo Emerson: Days of Encounter". Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984: 664. ISBN 0316553417.]
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
*Amos Bronson Alcott (Transcendentalist, philosopher, educator)
*Louisa May Alcott (author of "Little Women" and others)
*Ephraim Wales Bull (inventor of the Concord Grape)
*William Ellery Channing (Transcendentalist and poet)
*Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalist and poet)
*Daniel Chester French (sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial)
*Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of "The Scarlet Letter" and others)
*Sophia Hawthorne (wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne)
*George Frisbie Hoar (19th-century politician)
*Richard Marius (Reformation historian and Southern novelist)
*Abby May (Wife of Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of Louisa May Alcott)
*Ralph Munroe (yacht designer and pioneer of South Florida)
*Henry David Thoreau (Transcendentalist, philosopher, and author)
*George Washington Wright (California's first representative in Congress)
ee also
*List of United States cemeteries
*List of famous cemeteries
*Poets' Graves
*Find a Grave
References
External links
* [http://www.concordnet.org/Pages/ConcordMA_Cemetery/sleepy Sleepy Hollow Cemetery website]
* [http://www.friendsofsleepyhollow.org Friends of Sleepy Hollow website]
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