Druid Ridge Cemetery
Druid Ridge Cemetery is located just outside the city of Baltimore in Pikesville, Maryland at 7900 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore Co., MD 21208. Among its monuments and graves are several noted sculptures by Hans Schuler and the final resting places of:
- Felix Agnus, American Civil War general and newspaper publisher
- Alfred Blalock, pioneering cardiovascular surgeon
- Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, widow of tenor Enrico Caruso
- William Jones "Boileryard" Clarke, baseball player and coach
- Claribel Cone, physician and art collector with her sister Etta Cone
- Walter Dandy, one of the fathers of neurosurgery
- Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General.
- Rev. Dr. John Goucher, namesake of Goucher College
- Eli Jones Henkle, U.S. Congressman, 5th District of Maryland
- John Charles Linthicum, U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland
- Rosa Ponselle, celebrated soprano
- Carl Vernon Sheridan, World War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Hugh H. Young, pioneering urologist
- Elisabeth Gilman, daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman and prominent Maryland socialist and civil liberties advocate
- Virginia Hall, Baltimore-born WWII spy for the British Special Operations Executive
- Jennis Roy Galloway, Baltimore-born WWII Commander of the 441st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment, responsible for operations in General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area theater, and later Managing Director of Union Carbide India, Ltd
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Coordinates: 39°22′54.85″N 76°43′15.65″W / 39.3819028°N 76.7210139°W
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