Baptist Burying Ground (DEFUNCT)

Location: Fayette and Front Streets, Baltimore, Md.

Description: Located at the site of a mission built in 1773 by the Harford Baptist Church, near the current site of the Shot Tower. The mission was organized in 1785 as the First Baptist Church of Baltimore. In 1818, the church moved to the corner of Lombard and Sharp streets.  The cemetery is mentioned in the records of the Special Commissioners of the City of Baltimore, 1782-1797 and the location of the church — identified as Baptist M.H. — can be seen on the Warner & Hanna map of the city dated 1801. Scharf noted that “the remains of many of the dead were afterwards removed to a piece of ground in southwest Baltimore, which is at present occupied by buildings.” [History of Baltimore City and County, p. 554]

The cemetery is identified in Joseph Legg’s The Burying Grounds of Baltimore available at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.

Winter Day in Green Mount Cemetery

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
January 2014.

Loundon Park Cemetery Company Stock Specimen

[Print specimen of stock certificate for Loudon Park Cemetery Company]. Engraved & printed by A. Kollner, Philadelphia, [185-?].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, LC-DIG-ppmsca-24846.

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore (ca. 1848)

Green Mount Cemetery. Drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner. New York & Paris : published by Goupil, Vibert & Co., ca. 1848.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23596.

Mount Auburn Cemetery Scene

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. September 2013.