Mount Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1872. Formerly known as the Sharp Street Cemetery. Historically known as the “City of the Dead for Colored People.” The cemetery is documented in the Maryland Historical Trust’s Inventory of Historic Properties.

Status: active

Address: 1206 Ettings Street, Baltimore, Md. 21217

Website: http://www.sharpstreet.org/mtauburn.html

Obituaries

• See compiled entries for Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Sources for Burial Information

• Resurrecting Mount Auburn
• Find A Grave – Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Billion Graves – Mount Auburn Cemetery

Additional Sources

• Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church (Baltimore, Md.), and Bettye Collier-Thomas. 1977. One hundred seventy-fifth anniversary journal of Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church: Dolphin and Etting Streets, Baltimore, Maryland : October, 1977. [Baltimore]: The Church.
• Wilson, Edward N. 1963. Historical facts about Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Church. Baltimore: s.n.