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LOUDON PARK CEMETERY
Baltimore Maryland 

Loudon Park Cemetery       Baltimore City, Maryland       3700 Wilkins Avenue       Baltimore MD 21229       (410) 525-2828

Loudon Park National Cemetery     3445 Frederick Avenue     Baltimore, MD 21228

Loudon Park Cemetery             Confederate Hill           3801 Frederick Avenue           Baltimore MD

from Baltimore Neighborhoods - Irvington

"The 300-acre Loudon Park Cemetery was incorporated in 1853 on the site
of "Loudon." the estate of James Carey, a Baltimore merchant, city
councilman, and founder of the Maryland National Bank. With a spacious
Roman entry-arch on Frederick, it was built on an elevated plateau.
Remains were transferred from city cemeteries, notably old St. Peter's,
Whatcoat, and Zion graveyards, taken over by urban construction. The
Federal government purchased land on the eastern edge after the Civil War,
eventually acquiring the entire cemetery. It was re-designated "Loudon
National Cemetery" about the time of World War I. Highly accessible, it
received remains transported by rail over the Pennsylvania Railway, or on
the "Delores," a hearse trolley car on city lines. The Delores delivered
caskets to the Frederick Avenue gate that were then transferred by horse
carriage or along the cemetery's own trolley line from the Frederick to the
Wilkens side of the cemetery. 

Veterans' graves distinguish Loudon Park. "Government Lot" was acquired
by the Federal Government in 1861 for the remains of Union soldiers, 2300
eventually being buried there. An army sergeant domiciled in a cemetery
cottage kept watch over the plot for many years. Some 275 Confederate
soldiers were buried in a section designated "Confederate Hill." Burials
began when lot holders donated plots in 1862, midway through the Civil
War, the Cemetery subsequently exchanging these plots to insure a
uniform section. The statue of a Confederate soldier guarded by two angels
with wreath and torch was sculpted on the plot in 1870 by Adalsbert J.
Volck. A monument to mothers and widows was eventually erected by The
Ladies Confederate Memorial and Aid Society. Veterans' organizations held
ceremonies and picnics at the "Hill" on Confederate Memorial Day, June
6th, until the early 1930s. William Wilkens, Mary Pickersgill, flag-maker of
the banner hoisted over Fort McHenry in 1812, H.L. Mencken, and Ensign
C. Markland Kelly, Jr., the World War II hero shot down while piloting a
single-seatplane in the Battle of Midway, are also buried here. Notable
monuments included the Ottmar Mergenthaler Monument for the
German-born Baltimore inventor of the linotype." 

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Some links to additional information 

- Historic background and highlights about Confederate Hill
   and a roster of those interred there [Civil War Veterans]
- Partial transcription 
- Interment.net Partial Transcriptions
        Loudon Park Cemetery 
        Loudon Park National Cemetery


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