Features related to the Society’s various ongoing projects.
Work on Quaker Hill Cemetery Restoration Continues… Last fall, The Granite Historical Society secured funding from the Patapsco Heritage Greenway to clean-up and landscape a Quaker family cemetery on Wrights Mill road. Initial clean-up and reseeding of the site was completed by the end of October. Earlier this Spring, further stabilization of the site was…
Volunteers from the Society recently worked with a local landscaper to clean Quaker Hill Cemetery. Funding was provided by Patapsco Heritage Greenway.
Established by Samuel Hartley around 1850, this small family cemetery is under restoration by the Granite Historical Society using funds provided by the Patapsco Heritage Greenway. Records indicate it is the resting site of about 30 people; grave markers are being uncovered and recorded during the preservation process. Photographs of grave markers are currently available…
