Gateway to Loudon Park Cemetery

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Gateway to Loudon Park Cemetery

The ornate gateway to Loudon Park Cemetery, which was built in the 1850s and later demolished for the structures existing in 1998. Photo shows a horsecar of the Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott's Mills Railway with destination signs for Carrollton, Irvington and Paradise on its side. By 1883 the line had come under the control of the United Passenger Railway.

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By Sierra Hallmen
James Carey originally sold the generous country estate that became Loudon Park Cemetery in 1853. The new owner, James Primrose, built a stone wall with an ornamental railing at the cemetery entrance and enlisted an engineer to map out lots for鈥�