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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a rural 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 "Authors' Ridge."

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Reviews

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4.7

• By pjnlac

  If you like historic cemeteries you will thoroughly enjoy Sleepy Hollow. If you enjoy American literature you will find Author's Ridge quite fascinating. Here are the family plots of the Alcotts...  more »

• By julezblue

  We enjoyed walking through authors row with the pups. Interesting history throughout the cemetery! Even the graces of non famous people were intriguing to look at and it was a nice walk even though...  more »

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• By Allen Parsons

  Apparently inspired by the ideas of Emerson and other Transcendentalists, this peacefully beautiful cemetery is a serene woodland. Immaculately green and quiet (we visited on a late summer afternoon), the cemetery's 19th century tombstones spread over undulating terrain amid trim paved pathways. We found and silently paid respects at the family gravesites of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Apparently it’s a thing to leave pens and pencils at their graves. I guess it’s a well-meaning gesture, but the dead don’t need it.

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• By Felecia Eby

  Beautiful cemetery. I normally like to walk at a fairly quick pace going through a cemetery but, this one felt peaceful. It was lovely to walk through and amazing to see the resting places of such notable, distinguished authors on Author's Ridge. Highly recommend.

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