Soil erosion at the Belair Edison Crossing Shopping Center has exposed portion of a grave marker from the old Laurel Cemetery.

ID: 2317 ~ 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
Soil erosion at the Belair Edison Crossing Shopping Center has exposed portion of a grave marker from the old Laurel Cemetery.
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…