A pit dug during archaeological survey at the old Laurel Cemetery site.

ID: 2316 ~ Source: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2019/01/18/the-laurel-cemetery-project-of-baltimore/ ~ Creator: Elgin Klugh
This file appears in: Laurel Cemetery
A pit dug during archaeological survey at the old Laurel Cemetery site.
This file appears in: Laurel Cemetery

By The Laurel Cemetery Memorial Task Force
Laurel Cemetery was incorporated in 1852 as Baltimore’s first nondenominational cemetery for African Americans. The location chosen was Belle Air Avenue (now Belair Road), on a hill long used as a burial ground for free and enslaved servants of…