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
Thoreau family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Melvin Memorial (1908) (Daniel Chester French, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect)
The grave of Louisa May Alcott at Sleepy Hollow
The grave of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn at Sleepy Hollow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
…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. Both designers of the cemetery had decades-long friendships with many leaders of the…
Emerson c. 1857
Engraved drawing, 1878
Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward Waldo Emerson, c. 1850
Emerson in 1859