Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery near Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was established in 1823. It carries a heritage listing (NRHP 98000991). The grounds sit at about 138 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 77 notable people buried here, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 599250. The nearest other listed cemetery is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Knoll Section, about 0.3 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Concord, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 284 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 76 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1649. 9 of the 284 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Concord. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 19 writers, 7 US representatives, 5 scientists, 4 architects, 3 inventors and engineers, 3 musicians, 3 physicians, 2 business leaders.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882
  American philosopher
• Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
  American essayist, poet, and philosopher
• Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864
  American author
• Louisa May Alcott1832-1888
  American novelist
• Amos Bronson Alcott1799-1888
  American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer
• Daniel Chester French1850-1931
  American sculptor
• Robert W. Wood1868-1955
  American physicist and inventor
• Carl Joachim Friedrich1901-1984
  German political scientist
• Marc Daniels1912-1989
  American television director
• Elizabeth Peabody1804-1894
  American educator 1804-1894
• George Frisbie Hoar1826-1904
  American attorney and politician
• William Ellery Channing1818-1901
  American writer and poet

People whose Wikidata entry gives Sleepy Hollow Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Knoll Section

  Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Old Hill Burying Ground

  Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  0.4 mi
• Saint Bernards Parish Cemetery

  Concord, MA
  Catholic cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Grave of British Soldiers

  Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• South Burial Ground

  Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  0.6 mi
• Smallpox Cemetery

  95A Concord Turnpike, Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Small Pox Cemetery

  West Concord, MA
  Cemetery

  2.2 mi
• Concord Reformatory Cemetery

  West Concord, MA
  Church cemetery

  3.0 mi
• Town Hill Cemetery

  Lincoln, MA
  Cemetery

  3.2 mi
• Precinct Burial Ground

  Lincoln, MA
  Christian cemetery

  3.3 mi

• Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service

  Funeral home · Concord · (978) 369-2030
  0.4 mi
• Concord Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Concord · (978) 369-3388
  1.0 mi
• Bedford Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Bedford · (781) 275-6850
  3.8 mi
• Shawsheen Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Bedford · (781) 275-7706
  4.2 mi
• Douglass Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Lexington · (781) 862-1800
  5.4 mi
• Fowler-Kennedy Funeral Services Inc

  Funeral home · Maynard · (978) 897-7343
  6.0 mi

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