Laurel Cemetery Voluntour: Trash Clean-up and History Tour
Laurel Cemetery 2401 Belair Road, Maryland, United StatesJoin us to learn about one of Baltimore's most important, and forgotten cemeteries, and help clean it up as you learn! Laurel Cemetery was incorporated in 1852 as Baltimore’s first nondenominational cemetery for African Americans. It quickly became a popular place of burial for people across Black Baltimore’s socioeconomic spectrum, including 230 Black Civil War veterans and notables such as Civil Rights activist Reverend Harvey Johnson.