Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 5.2 acres (2.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,138 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by the Baltimore National Cemetery.

Loudon Park National Cemetery
The Maryland Sons Monument in Loudon Park National Cemetery
Location3445 Frederick Ave., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates39°16′49″N 76°40′30″W
Built1862
ArchitectMeigs, Montgomery C.
Architectural styleSecond Empire
MPSCivil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.96000655 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 20, 1996

The cemetery's civil war interments include about 2,300 union soldiers and 650 confederate soldiers.[2]

History

Loudon Park National Cemetery was originally established as a plot within the Loudon Park Cemetery. It was one of the 14 original National Cemeteries established under the National Cemetery Act on July 17, 1862. Most of the original interments were from area veteran hospitals. During the American Civil War, Fort McHenry was a prisoner of war camp, and the prisoners who died while incarcerated there were interred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.[3]

Land acquisitions in 1874, 1875, 1882, 1883 and lastly in 1903, brought the cemetery to its current size.

Loudon Park National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

Notable monuments
  • The Maryland Sons Monument, a three-foot-tall terra cotta frieze with a bas relief sculpture. Dedicated in 1885.
  • Rigby Monument, a marble monument erected in 1891 dedicated to Captain James H. Rigby and the 1st Maryland Light Artillery.
  • The Unknown Dead Monument, a marble sculpture, dedicated in 1895.
  • The Maryland Naval Monument, dedicated in 1896.
  • The Confederate Monument, erected in 1912, marking the burial place of Confederate prisoners of war.

Notable interments

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Marsha Wight Wise (2009). Baltimore Neighborhoods. Arcadia Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 0-7385-5290-9.
  3. Therese T. Sammartino (April 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Loudon Park National Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
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