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Historic cemetery in the United States

For the cemetery in New York, see Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

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."

History

Sleepy Hollow 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.^[2] Both designers of the cemetery had decades-long friendships with many leaders of the Transcendentalism movement and is reflected in their design.^{[citation needed]}

"Sleepy Hollow was an early natural garden designed in keeping with Emerson's aesthetic principles