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This burial vault holds the remains of nine members of two prominent Baltimore families whose live were intertwined through business partnerships and marriage.
Cumberland Dugan (1747-1836), the patriarch, left Ireland at age 19, settling briefl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZN_believe-it-or-not_Baltimore-MD.html
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 was origin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZM_monumental-lives_Baltimore-MD.html
The William and Robert Smith vault, another of Maximilian Godefroy's Egyptian-flavored designs, belonged to one of early Baltimore's most successful and accomplished families.
William Smith followed his brother John from Lancaster, Pennsylvania…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZL_fame-fortune-and-financial-scandal_Baltimore-MD.html
The Calhoun-Buchanan vault holds the remains of 29 members of two of Baltimore's leading Scots-Irish Presbyterian families spanning five or six generations. The neo-classical granite vault is probably the work of Robert Mills (1781-1855), the arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZK_thurgood-marshall-house_Baltimore-MD.html
"Why, of all the multitudinous groups of people in this country, do you have to single out Negroes and give them separate treatment?" Thurgood Marshall reproached the Supreme Court with this and other questions in the landmark civil rights case Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZJ_a-swashbuckling-merchant_Baltimore-MD.html
Irish-born adventurer John O'Donnell (1749-1805) was a native of Limerick who made his way to India as a youth. He sailed into Baltimore on a late summer day in 1785 aboard a ship laden with Chinese goods, thus opening Baltimore's trade with the F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZI_the-mcdonoghs-of-baltimore_Baltimore-MD.html
Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-known private school founded in 1873. Buried here are the parents of the school's founder, Irish natives John (1734-1809) and Elizabeth McDonogh (1747-1808).
John McDonogh, a brickmaker, too…
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1737-1809Elizabeth McDonogh1746-1808Parents of John McDonoghFounderMcDonogh School for BoysRestored byThe McDonogh Alumni Association1949
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZF_the-sleep-of-young-innocents_Baltimore-MD.html
Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.Thy kingdom come.Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.And lead us not into temptation, but deliver u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZD_the-carriage-gates-of-westminster-burying-ground_Baltimore-MD.html
Westminster's carriage gates, completed in 1815, were among the nation's first examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church, the gates were designed by Maximilian Godefroy (1765-ca.1840), a French archit…