Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Concord, Massachusetts, best known as the resting place of prominent American authors and thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic place
architect Horace Cleveland
architecturalStyle rural cemetery movement
burialPlaceOf American Civil War veterans
local Concord families
country United States of America
hasAccess open to the public
hasCoordinateLocation 42.462°N 71.343°W
hasCulturalSignificance important site in American literary history
resting place of major American Transcendentalists
hasDesignConcept picturesque landscape design
hasFunction active burial site
commemoration of notable American figures
hasHeritageValue association with Transcendentalist movement
hasNearbyAttraction Concord Museum
Old North Bridge
Walden Pond
hasPart Authors Ridge
hasPhotographicSubject Authors Ridge headstones
hasPrimaryLanguageOfSignage English
hasSection Civil War soldiers’ lots
hasTourismType heritage tourism
literary tourism
hasUse public burial ground
hasVegetationType mixed New England hardwood trees
hasWebsite https://concordma.gov (cemeteries section)
heritageDesignation National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
inception 1855
isPartOf historic resources of Concord, Massachusetts
locatedIn Concord, Massachusetts
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Massachusetts
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
maintainedBy Concord Public Works or Cemetery Department
namedAfter Sleepy Hollow (valley within Concord)
nearbyWaterBody Mill Brook (Concord)
notableBurial Bronson Alcott
H. D. Thoreau family members
Henry David Thoreau
Louisa May Alcott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sophia Peabody
surface form: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
ownedBy Concord
surface form: Town of Concord
significantEvent development of Authors Ridge as literary pilgrimage site
terrainFeature rolling hills
wooded landscape

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Melvin Memorial (Concord, Massachusetts) location Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Concord town center near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
this entity surface form: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
Emerson House nearbyAttraction Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Authors' Ridge locatedIn Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Authors' Ridge partOf Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Samuel Melvin location Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
subject surface form: Melvin Memorial
this entity surface form: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts
Concord hasHistoricSite Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
subject surface form: Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
Robert Morris Copeland notableWork Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
this entity surface form: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)