The other day I was looking on google maps, as I do almost every day, for a faster way to get out of my office. I noticed on one map that there was a tiny little grey area on the side of a highway offramp called Dorsey cemetery. The Dorsey family was one of the most prominent families in Howard and county during the colonial period. So it didn’t suprise me that they had a family cemetery in what seemed like an awkward place.
What suprised me was the proximity of the cemetery to what I thought was an office complex. I knew they were building nearby and I knew that this cemetery might have been in the way of that building.
So I checked out the scene. It turns out that the cemetery is today surrounded on three sides by parking lots and on one side by an offramp. As you can see above, it is fairly well isolated from most lines of sight to the new construction around it. However, as you can see below, it’s very close to a brand new building
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1 shelly // Dec 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM
YES! I love MDP graveyard pictures!!
2 Gump // Dec 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Good find MDP.
3 Kathi // Dec 30, 2009 at 10:22 PM
In St Mary’s County there is a shopping center on rt. 235 that seems to have been built around a small cemetery plot. I thought it was just a garden for years and wondered why they were taking up so much parking area for a garden. Then someone told me to look more closely. They must have had some agreement that they would take care of the cemetery if they bought the property. Photograph that.
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