Five Things You Didn’t Know About Sleepy Hollow

You’ve heard of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman, but do you know about the other Sleepy Hollow Cemetery? This one is in Concord, Massachusetts and there are so many famous authors buried there they named a section “Author’s Ridge.” As a taphophile, I had to visit. I recently visited Concord while traveling in my van on a two-year nomadic road trip, hiking, visiting historic sites, and staying in short-term rentals. I stopped at the homes and locations made famous by many writers. In this case, Henry David Thoreau drew me to Massachusetts and led me to Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Not only did I find Thoreau’s grave, but all around him, I found many others like Emerson, Alcott and Hawthorne. But how did they all end up there? 1. Sleepy Hollow’s Famous Beginning In the 1800s, when transcendentalists walked the woods and lived alongside ponds in Concord, they also authored books of poetry, memoir and fiction. Many of the books written here are among the most famous of our time. They include “Walden,” “Little Women” “The Scarlett Letter,” “Self-Reliance” and more. Its location in the rural outskirts of Boston drew many of the elite and educated. Many still rest […]

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