Mount Auburn Cemetery - Baltimore MD
Posted by: Don.Morfe
N 39° 15.642 W 076° 38.334
18S E 358603 N 4346987
One of the largest African American cemeteries in Baltimore. Mt. Auburn Cemetery was formed in 1872. The cemetery was once known as "The City of the Dead for Colored People" since it was the only place a person of color could be buried.
Waymark Code: WM13NY7
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2021
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TEXT from the Maryland Historical Marker located at the cemetery: Oldest cemetery for African Americans in Baltimore, founded in 1872 by Rev. James Peck, pastor, and trustees of Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Dating to 1787, the congregation served the community and was influential in the freedom movement of the 19th century and the civil rights movement of the 20th. Here rest former slaves, clergy, professionals, business owners and thousands of African American families."
TEXT From Wikipedia in part:
"Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic African American cemetery and national historic district in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Overlooking the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River to the east, Baltimore's Downtown to the north and railroad tracks to the south, Mt. Auburn Cemetery is surrounded by the Cherry Hill, Westport, Mt. Winans and Lakeland communities
One of the most historic and largest African American cemeteries in Baltimore, Mt. Auburn Cemetery was formed in 1872, by the Reverend James Peck in protest to segregation against the White Methodist Church. Its grounds encompass 34 acres (140,000 m2) and holds more than 55,000 interred
Designated on the local and national historic registers, the cemetery was once known as "The City of the Dead for Colored People" since it was the only place a person of color could be buried. Once part of a farm, the land was given to the Methodist Church and assigned to the Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church to oversee its grounds. Over the years the cemetery has been in total neglect with only a few of its front acreage remaining identifiable as a cemetery.
Mt. Auburn Cemetery holds the remains of some of Baltimore's and the nation's "movers and shakers" of the local civil rights movement. In addition to runaway slaves, the cemetery contains the remains of the first African American ship chandler; clergymen; the first female funeral home director, Civil War and civil rights activists, lawyers, doctors, teachers, military veterans, founders of national fraternities’ and sororities’ and the ancestors of thousands of African-American families.
Mount Auburn Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001"
Street address: 2614 Annapolis Road (Entrance listed Address on NRHP) 2630 Waterview Ave (Main gate entrance arch) Baltimore, MD USA 21230
County / Borough / Parish: Baltimore City
Year listed: 2001
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event
Periods of significance: 1950-1974, 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Historic function: Funerary
Current function: Funerary
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 2: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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