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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZQ_original-burial-place-of-edgar-allan-poe_Baltimore-MD.html
FromOctober 9, 1849untilNovember 17, 1875Mrs. 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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZP_dugan-hollins-family-vault_Baltimore-MD.html
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/HM3ZO_birthplace-of-sidney-lanier_Macon-GA.html
Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician & lawyer, was born in this cottage, Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the Confederate Army and was captured while commanding a bloc…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3ZH_dauphin-deposit-bank-building_Harrisburg-PA.html
The structure across the street is the oldest bank building in the Harrisburg Metropolitan Area and stands as an icon to the financial institution that helped to fuel the City's growth since the 1830's. Survivor of several Economic Panics, the Civ…