Druid Ridge Cemetery is located just outside the city of Baltimore

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 in Pikesville, Maryland

Pikesville, Maryland

Pikesville is a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Pikesville is just northwest of the Baltimore city limits. It is the northwestern suburb closest to Baltimore.The population was 29,123 at the 2000 census...

 at 7900 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore Co., MD 21208. Among its monuments and graves are several noted sculptures by Hans Schuler

Hans Schuler

Hans K. Schuler was a German-born American sculptor and monument maker. He was the first American sculptor ever to win the Salon Gold Medal. His works are in several important museum collections, and he also created many public monuments, mostly for locations in Maryland and in the Washington,...

 and the final resting places of:

• Felix Agnus, American Civil War
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   general and newspaper publisher
• Alfred Blalock
  Alfred Blalock
  Alfred Blalock was a 20th-century American surgeon most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot—known commonly as the blue baby syndrome—with Vivien Thomas and pediatric...
  
  , pioneering cardiovascular surgeon
• Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, widow of tenor
  Tenor
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   Enrico Caruso
• William Jones "Boileryard" Clarke
  Boileryard Clarke
  William Jones "Boileryard" Clarke , was an American Major League Baseball player from New York City who played catcher from 1893 to 1905...
  
  , baseball player and coach
• Claribel Cone
  Claribel Cone
  The Cone sisters were Claribel Cone and Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland. Together they gathered one of the finest collections of modern French art in the United States. They were wealthy socialites during the Gilded Age.-Early life:Their parents were Herman Cone and Helen Cone, who were...
  
  , physician and art collector with her sister Etta Cone
• Walter Dandy
  Walter Dandy
  Walter Edward Dandy, M.D. was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing...
  
  , one of the fathers of neurosurgery
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• Rev. Dr. John Goucher, namesake of Goucher College
  Goucher College
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• Florence Kendall, influential physical therapist
• John Charles Linthicum
  John Charles Linthicum
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  , U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland
• Rosa Ponselle
  Rosa Ponselle
  Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.-Early life:She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897,...
  
  , celebrated soprano
  Soprano
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• Carl Vernon Sheridan, World War II Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
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   recipient
• Hugh H. Young, pioneering urologist
• Elisabeth Gilman
  Elisabeth Gilman
  Elisabeth Coit Gilman was an American socialist and civil libertarian.-Early life:Elisabeth Coit Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 25, 1867 to Daniel Coit Gilman and Mary Ketcham Gilman. Elisabeth was the second child, and had an older sister named Alice...
  
  , daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman
  Daniel Coit Gilman
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   and prominent Maryland socialist and civil libertarian

Druid Ridge Cemetery was also the original home to local legend Black Aggie

Black Aggie

Black Aggie is a local legend in Baltimore and Pikesville, Maryland. Black Aggie is the folkloric name given a statue placed on the grave of General Felix Agnus in Druid Ridge Cemetery in 1926. The statue is an unauthorized replica, rendered by Edward L. A. Pausch, of Augustus St...

 and contains what is probably the only monument to Queen Victoria in the United States.

External links

• Druid Ridge Cemetery in Find a Grave
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