This cemetery contains the graves of the Alcotts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Chester French, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau among others. The cemetery covers about 100 acres, and has over forty thousand burials within its grounds. It was renamed "Sleepy Hollow Cemetery" from "Tarrytown Cemetery" when Washington Irving suggested the more natural name in a letter to Mr. Lewis Gaylord Clark.
