A wooded corner of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery holds the graves of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and other members of Concord's extraordinary literary circle. The concentration of famous writers makes the ridge feel like a compact cemetery of American literature.
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Source: Atlas Obscura