Date: May 5, 2000
Cemetery Name: Prospect Methodist Church
Street:
City: Baltimore
County: Anne Arundel
State: Maryland
Zip:
Land Type: Private
Status: Inactive
Number of graves:
Oldest grave: mid-1840's
Records: Yes
Inventory: Don't Know
Owner: Irene Callbeck, Board of Trustees for teh
Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church
Location
Washington Post (newspaper) METRO Compiled from reports by staff
writers Maria Glod, Victoria Benning, Susan Levine and Justin Blum and
the Associated Press. Tuesday, May 23, 2000; Page B03
MARYLAND 19th-Century Graves to Be Moved After more than a year of
research and fruitless searching for descendants, the occupants of
four burial shafts are about to be moved from what once was the site
of a church to make way for parking for 400-acre, $250 million Arundel
Mills mall near Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Prospect
Methodist Church was built in the mid-1840s. The congregation
dissolved at the dawn of the Civil War when Union and Confederate
loyalties divided members. Eventually the property was abandoned.
Irene Callbeck, a member of the board of trustees for the
Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, said
the church is willing to part with the property, which she said is
"not large enough for us to do anything with." "It
seemed the wisest thing to do was to sell," Callbeck said.
"The important part was there were people buried there, and we
had to do our best to find the families and find a church where these
bodies could be buried." The bodies will be moved to
Nichols-Bethel United Methodist Church in Odenton.
Description
Four burial shafts
Other Problems
I have not seen this cemetery -- merely read about it in the
newspaper.
Previous Contacts
no one
Current Status
About to be destroyed for a mall. Graves will be transferred to
Nichols-Bethel United Methodist Church in Odenton, MD.
