South — Cemetery filing

Cemeteries with a file in Maryland

Maryland files 4 burial grounds said to keep their dead — monuments and dates on one side of the record, figures among the markers on the other. Some of these grounds are meticulously documented; others survive mostly in the reports about them. Both kinds are filed the same way here: what is known, and what is said.

4 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsWestminster Hall and Burying Ground — deepest file

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Other Maryland filings:Historic sites65

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

Baltimore, Maryland

Poe’s graveyard, catacombs and famous birthday-toast tradition.

St. Stephen’s A.M.E. Church Cemetery, Unionville

Unionville, Maryland

The Unionville cemetery—where the free Black community rests.

Reddy Gray Burial Site, Loudon Park National Cemetery

Baltimore, Maryland

The USCT soldier’s grave—where the self-emancipated veteran rests.

Elizabeth Keckly Burial Site

Washington, Maryland

The modiste’s grave—where Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante rests.

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