Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
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 "Author's Ridge."
Thoreau family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
A sign by the cemetery
Melvin Memorial (1908) (Daniel Chester French, sculptor; Henry Bacon, architect)
The grave of Louisa May Alcott at Sleepy Hollow
Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. In the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491. The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston. The town center is near where the Sudbury and Assabet rivers join to form the Concord River.
View of Concord's Main Street, looking east toward Monument Square
Aerial view, December 1935
Photo of Egg Rock inscription, c. 1904
The Old Manse, home to Ralph Waldo Emerson and later Nathaniel Hawthorne