Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Concord, MA 01742
Phone: (978) 371-6299
- Cross Street:
- Lowell Road
- Hours:
- Daily from dawn until dusk
Editorial Review for Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
About as spooky-looking a cemetery as they come, Sleepy Hollow was a popular hangout for the somber 19th century literary set, who liked to walk together in its eerie quiet. No surprise then that so many of them were eventually buried here: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Now the cemetery paths that the authors once strolled are filled with English majors on pilgrimage.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoAuthor's Ridge, where the literati rest, is well-marked and the tombstones easy to pick out, bleached as they've become by grave robbers--and they're usually piled high with flowers. Emerson's is a particularly gaudy chunk of granite.
Look GoodTo find the authors, enter Sleepy Hollow through the Prichard Gate. The cemetery's Melvin Memorial, dedicated to three men of the same family killed during the Civil War, is the work of Lincoln Memorial designer Daniel Chester French.
