Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery located on Bedford Road in 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. Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson are buried on a hill known as Author's Ridge. Other notables buried there include Richard Marius, a Reformation historian and Southern novelist, George Frisbie Hoar, a 19th-century politician, Ralph Munroe, a yacht designer and pioneer of South Florida, and Daniel Chester French, a sculptor whose works include the Lincoln Memorial statue in Washington, DC.
Sleepy Hollow has been in use since 1855, and 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.
This site should not be confused with another famous burial ground with the same name, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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