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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Bedford Road , Concord, Massachusetts

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is located right off the main rotary in historic downtown Concord Massachusetts on Bedford Road. It’s more than a simple burying ground. It’s a beautiful park with rolling hills and valleys where one can go to relax, think and enjoy the peace and tranquility of nature and the chirping of the native birds, which come in from the adjacent Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Sleepy Hollow has been in existance since 1855 and is still being used today.

Some of the worlds greatest writters and thinkers are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on “Authors Ridge.” Here are a few of them:

Henry David Thoreau – was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, and a lifelong abolitionist. “Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in himself. He was one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced. At the time of the abolition of slavery movement, he wrote his famous essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable” - Gandhi

Nathaniel Hawthorne - American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history. Hawthorne is probably best know for ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ and the collection of short stories ‘Twice-Told Tales.’

Louisa May Alcott - an American novelist, an abolitionist and a feminist best known for the novel Little Women, Alcott became an advocate of women's suffrage and was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts. Although the character Jo in Little Women was based on Louisa May Alcott, she never married. She explained her "spinsterhood" in an interview with Louise Chandler Moulton, "... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Despite his having been married, there is considerable evidence pointing to Emerson being bisexual. During his earlier years at Harvard he found himself 'strangely attracted' to a young freshman named Martin Gay about whom he wrote sexually charged poetry. Gay would be only the first of his infatuations and interests, Walt Whitman be another.

Waldo Emerson - The Five year old son of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ephraim Wales Bull - was the inventor of the Concord grape without which the US would still be trying to make a great wine. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1855. His epitaph reads, He Sowed Others Reaped.

George Frisbie Hoar - a prominent United States politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. Hoar was also one of the founders of the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science, now known as the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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The Five Classes of Gravestones Alphabetical Listing of Gravestone Symbols

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