Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Concord

Washington Irving made famous the name “Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,” after he wrote about the frightening, headless horseman and poor Ichabod Crane’s flee for his life through the haunted cemetery. However, Irving’s story was written about another graveyard in New York that was later changed to the name “Sleepy Hollow,” upon the author’s request before his death.

In contrast, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts contains 10,000 gravesites and is thus quite large. It is a beautiful, old, tree covered plot of land which can only inspire the thoughts of literary history by day, and ghosts and spirits by night.

A hilly crest in the cemetery is known as “Author’s Ridge,” for famous authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott are all buried here with their families. Old marking stones of various sizes with names and carvings are quaint, but also quite spooky, as they jut upwards in different shapes and shades of gray throughout the green lawns. The winding, narrow roads through the cemetery make it an enjoyable historic and beautiful place to visit while in Concord.

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Watch a short video recorded in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts
Photo of the caretaker's house at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord
Photograph of the marker of famous author Ralph Waldo Emerson