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The Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery are citizens
who comprise a non-profit community organization
with a mission to further enhance and promote the
preservation, beautification, and appreciation of the
public burial grounds of the Town of Concord.
Those burial grounds include Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery (1823), Old Hill Burying Ground (1670)
and South Burying Place (1690).
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the largest of the three
cemeteries, is on the National Registry of Historic
Places and extends for two-fifths of a mile on the
north side of Bedford Street. Of its estimated
10,000 gravesites, many are of local, national and
international significance. Composed of 119 acres,
it is laid out in several phases, including the New
Burying Ground (1823) and Sleepy Hollow (1855).
who comprise a non-profit community organization
with a mission to further enhance and promote the
preservation, beautification, and appreciation of the
public burial grounds of the Town of Concord.
Those burial grounds include Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery (1823), Old Hill Burying Ground (1670)
and South Burying Place (1690).
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the largest of the three
cemeteries, is on the National Registry of Historic
Places and extends for two-fifths of a mile on the
north side of Bedford Street. Of its estimated
10,000 gravesites, many are of local, national and
international significance. Composed of 119 acres,
it is laid out in several phases, including the New
Burying Ground (1823) and Sleepy Hollow (1855).
Copyright 2007 The Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Designed by landscape designer Horace W.S. Cleveland, Sleepy Hollow is one of the earliest and best examples of
a “rural” or “garden” cemetery. The rural cemetery movement was inspired by romantic ideas about death, and the
new attitudes regarding the healing powers of nature and art.
Historic notables buried in Sleepy Hollow include:
Bronson Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Ephraim Wales Bull
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daniel Chester French
Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Samuel Hoar
Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
Congressman George Frisbie Hoar
Harriet M. Lothrop
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Franklin Sanborn
Henry David Thoreau
a “rural” or “garden” cemetery. The rural cemetery movement was inspired by romantic ideas about death, and the
new attitudes regarding the healing powers of nature and art.
Historic notables buried in Sleepy Hollow include:
Bronson Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Ephraim Wales Bull
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daniel Chester French
Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Samuel Hoar
Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
Congressman George Frisbie Hoar
Harriet M. Lothrop
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Franklin Sanborn
Henry David Thoreau
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The Friends can be contacted by email at: info@friendsofsleepyhollow.org