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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Cleveland and Copeland Architect
1862/05/06 Henry David Thoreau Died Henry David Thoreau dies of Tuberculosis, he is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
1864/05/23 Louisa May Alcott Mourner Louisa May Alcott serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 James T Fields Mourner James T Fields serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 Nathaniel Hawthorne In Memoriam Pallbearers, including Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier, carry Nathaniel Hawthorne's body to his grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Mourner Oliver Wendell Holmes serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mourner Henry Wadsworth Longfellow serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 Edwin Percy Whipple Mourner Edwin Percy Whipple serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 Ralph Waldo Emerson Mourner Ralph Waldo Emerson serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864/05/23 John Greenleaf Whittier Mourner John Greenleaf Whittier serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1882/04/30 Ralph Waldo Emerson In Memoriam Samuel Moody Haskins, Emerson's cousin, conducts the Episcopal burial service for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's grandchildren and Concord schoolchildren drop flowers and greenery into the grave.
1888/03/06 Louisa May Alcott Died Louisa Alcott dies of a stroke in Boston, her final resting place is in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
1892/11/15 Lidian Jackson Emerson In Memoriam Dressed in a birthday jacket, wrapped in a birthday blanket and wearing a new tulle cap, Lidian Jackson Emerson is laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Judge Hoar reads a poem and Mr Bulkeley reads the hymn "Quiet from God".
1897/00/00 Daniel Chester French Sculptor James C Melvin of Boston commissions Daniel C French to design a memorial to his three brothers - Asa, John and Samuel Melvin - who died in the Civil War.
2006/06/26 Sophia Peabody Hawthorne In Memoriam The remains of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and her daughter, Una, are brought from England and reinterred in the Hawthorne family plot at Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord.

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Particulars for Sleepy Hollow Cemetery:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Historic Use Cemetery
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 98000991
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Cleveland, Horace W.S.; et.al.
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National; Local; State
Area of Significance: Art, Architecture, Community Planning and Development, Landscape architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Significant Year: 1823, 1855, 1869
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery
Current Function: Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery

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