Map of Druid Hill Park showing water supply and drain pipes

ID: 2147 ~ Source: National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site ~ Creator: Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects ~ Date: 1898 March
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Map of Druid Hill Park showing water supply and drain pipes

In addition to the lake, this map shows the High Service Reservoir at the northwest corner of the park and the Mount Royal Reservoir at the southeast corner of the park. Neither of these secondary reservoirs are still in place today.

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By Eben Dennis
In 1863, the Baltimore City Council approved a $300,000 loan to construct a billion gallon capacity reservoir in the newly established Druid Hill Park. Though the new city waterworks project from Lake Roland to the Mount Royal Reservoir on the Jones…