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
- Rev. Dr. John Goucher, namesake of Goucher College
- 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
Famous quotes containing the words druid, ridge and/or cemetery:
“There was a green branch hung with many a bell
When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;
And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,
A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)