Author's Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

 

A beautiful cemetery holding the graves of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne, and many others. The ridge on which the graves are situated is beautiful and the cemetery itself is very easy to navigate. Here's some photos! Finally!

 

The etching is faded and the sun was shining directly on it, but I think you can make out Ralph Waldo Emerson's name. This face plat appears on a giant rock at the top of author's ridge:

 

Emerson, wife, & daughter

Alcott family marker

 

 Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women" & much more. I will devote a blog to her specifically very soon, needless to say if you get the chance to visit Concord, don't miss "The Orchard House," which was the Alcott family home for 20 years.

 

 

Henry David Thoreau's grave (top) & family plot (bottom)

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave site (directly across from Alcott and Thoreau's)