Gardens and Kitchen at Belvoir

Ornamental courtyard gardens were a luxury to create and maintain. The presence of a courtyard garden on an estate indicated the owners were wealthy, educated people. Records show that the garden layout was based upon a garden in Sterling, Scotland. ...

Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's origins stretch back to 1786 when local Scots-Irish Presbyterians acquired land here for a new burial ground, a mile or so from the center of the growing town of some 12,000. First Presbyterian Church included many of Baltimore's most ...

Liberty Park

The original five acre plot, located in the Big Field Survey, was assigned to Isaac Chase, a pioneer of 1847. A spring of clear water made it a verdant spot. Later he purchased three other tracts and planted seeds of ...

Life at Belvoir

Belvoir bustled with activities typical of estates during this era. Family members, slaves, and guests were part of daily life at Belvoir. Nearby plantation residents traveled in the same circles, the Fairfaxes, the Washingtons, and the Masons were active in ...

Among Family: Poe’s Original Burial Place

He lies buried amongst his kindred ... and no stone or monument yet marks his resting-place."

J. Thomas Scharf's Chronicles of Baltimore, 1874

Edgar Allan Poe was buried here on October 8, 1849, a day after his lingering death in Baltimore's Washington ...

The Historical Carbonado Saloon

This structure was a close relative to the Carbon Hill Coal Company’s brick store that sat directly across from it on Pershing Avenue. Right around 1880, this building held Carbonado’s first Post Office. It’s known that a barber shop once ...

Original Burial Place of Edgar Allan Poe

From

October 9, 1849

until

November 17, 1875

Mrs. Maria Glemm, his mother-in-law, lies upon his right and Virginia Poe, his wife, upon his left, under the monument erected to him in this cemetery.

Marker can be reached from the ...

Faubourg Tremé

Located on a portion of the Morand-Moreau plantation sold by Claude Faubourg Tremé in 1810 to the city of New Orleans, it became the city’s first subdivision and is considered to be America’s oldest existing African American neighborhood. It ...

Thomas J. Malone Bridge / Gaston's Mill

"Thomas J. Malone Bridge"

This covered bridge stood in the 1870s over Middle Run, on State Route 154, between Lisbon and Elkton, Elkrun Township. It was converted to a storage shed and moved twice by the Elkrun Township Trustees. Mr. Malone, ...

Believe it or Not

Raised slabs mark a number of grave sites at Westminster, but none has garnered as much attention as this one. Once the subject of a "Ripley's Believe it or Not," this gravity-defying piece fo marble continues to fascinate.

This slab ...