The Bodies of Leakin Park - Baltimore, MD

Since 1946 79 Bodies have been found in Leakin Park. Below is a map of where the 68 of those bodies were found.

Below is a list of 79 bodies found in Leakin Park, I may have missed a few due to the limitations of searching on the Internet. If you click on the names of the victims you may read the information I was able to find about each case.

I want to make one additional comment. Anyone that knows me is aware of my attention to detail when it comes to map symbol placement. Due to the large numbers of symbols and making the map clear, and also the pathetic way the Baltimore City Police Department annotates crime scene locations, I want to admit the body placement is approximate and not exact. If you have any questions, email me. You can find the address in my profile. This list was most recently updated on 06/18/2017.

Name	Address body was found	Date Found	Age	Murdered By:
Richard Wayne Truman (with introduction)	Mt. Holly Road area	November 18, 1946	13	Robert Clayton Wright
Larry Jefferson	3800 Stokes Drive	April 19, 1968	9	Reginald Vernon Oates
Matt Jefferson	3800 Stokes Drive	April 19, 1968	5	Reginald Vernon Oates
Louis Robert Hill	3800 Stokes Drive	April 19, 1968	10	Reginald Vernon Oates
Lester Watson	3800 Stokes Drive	April 19, 1968	10	Reginald Vernon Oates
Elsie Josephine Johnson	3900 Chesholm Road	May 28, 1969	16	Andre Van Lear Foster
Eugene Leroy Anderson	r4100 Stokes Drive	killed July 11, 1969 found October 27, 1969	20	Either the Black Panthers or the FBI depending on your POV
George Douglas Newton	3700 Winterbourne Road	June 6, 1971	23
Milton Beatty	4500 Hutton Ave	March 8, 1972	24
Sherman Mack Butler	Hutton Ave and Wetheredsville Road	January 6, 1973	20
Thelma Nash	4800 Franklintown Road	January 28, 1973	19	David L. Morris
Wanda M. Lewis	1400 Franklintown Road	May 18, 1974	15
Alfred Washington	1400 Franklintown Road	May 18, 1974	17
William Braxton	Leakin Park	July 30, 1974	26
William Emerson Dorsey	3800 Chesholm Road	August 6, 1974	17
Luther Wagner	4800 Franklintown Road	December 2, 1974	21	Fred T. Sampson
Wanda Carter	Windsor Mill Road	December 7, 1976	22	Olivia L Tatum
Gwendolyn Moore	3500 Gelston Drive	March 29, 1979	23
Lester Williams	1400 Franklintown Road	October 9, 1979	25
Margaret L Robinson	4700 Franklintown Road	June 26, 1981	19	Killed by husband
Joyce Ann DeShields	4300 Seminole Avenue	May 9, 1982	26	killed by serial killer who remains on the loose
Paul John Casper	4800 Clifton Ave	January 5, 1984	36
Oliver Wendell Munson	Potentially Leakin Park	February 13, 1984	39	Dennis Watson is a person of interest
Unidentified Man	Wetheredsville Road	March 19, 1986
Jason Ely	4500 Wetheredsville Road	January 1, 1988	21	Willy Petty Jr, Jimmie McKoy, JoAnn Petty
Hope Sarah Patterson	1900 Wetheredsville Road	September 13, 1990	35	Ronald Ludd and Richard Tirrell Cook charged
Troy Leroy Bennett	4600 Wetheredsville Road	May 16, 1991	20
Infant	Franklintown Road and Chesholme Road	November 13, 1991	less than 1
Timothy Washington	Most likely Leakin Park	September 11, 1992	8	Keith M. Garrett
Linda Pearson	4700 Wetheredsville Road	March 28, 1993	31	Don Anthony Pearson
Unidentified Man - Suicide	4900 Windsor Mill Road	April 17, 1994
Patrick Maxwell	4700 Franklintown Road	May 2, 1994	27
Bernadette Tyndale	2000 Ridgetop Road	June 15, 1994	30	Ernest Tyndale
Shante Harris	Franklintown Road	July 29, 1994	3	Darntrell Griffin, Eric Duane Dorsey
Gregory Melvin Smith	4700 Franklintown Road	May 4, 1995	25	Robert Malcolm McLain Jr. aka Darryl Anthony Harris McLain or Darryl McLain DOB 05091968 No longer incarcerated
Russell Fletcher	3700 Franklintown Road	February 1, 1996	37
Renita Wallace	1900 Ridgetop road	April 3, 1996	33	Walter Percy Holmes Jr.
Courtney Williams	4500 Wetheredsville Road	April 7, 1996	27	The Dirty Cop accused Chris Black
Unidentified Man	4500 Wetheredsville Road	April 8, 1996		No obvious signs of foul play
Aaron Glenn	5000 Franklintown Road	April 20, 1996	20s
Charles Augustus Robinson	3500 Winterbourne Road	April 24, 1996	61
Charles Hayden(found with D. Coleman)	4800 Franklintown Road	July 18, 1996	22
Deron Coleman	4800 Franklintown Road	July 18, 1996	24
Alphonso Spencer	4500 Franklintown Road	April 27, 1996	37	Allegedly Arnold Braxton Jr. and Nathaniel Powell
Rodney Alonzo Banks	5100 Franklintown Road	May 19, 1997	31
Devon Dexter Denton	3600 Winterbourne Road	May 25, 1997	18
Victonio Guy Spencer	1900 Eagle Drive	June 1, 1997	26	All charges dropped against Keith D. McCallum
Leonard Williams	2000 Franklintown Road	July 2, 1997	25
Unidentified Man	4800 Franklintown Road	September 08, 1997
Wanda Turner	3100 Wetheredsville Road	January 23, 1998	26
Todd Roney	Hutton Ave and Wetheredsville Road	September 7, 1998	33
Rasheed Alea Harris	Leakin Park Ravine	February 22, 1998	19
Kendall Hawks	4700 Windsor Mill Road	October 4, 1998	18
Rufus Washington	4000 Clifton Avenue	November 13, 1998	41	Michael J Stewart and Antonio A Warrington
Vincent Blatch	3500 Winterbourne Road	November 24, 1998	35
Novella Peaches Brown	4500 Hutton Ave	December 28, 1998	41
Hae Min Lee	4400 Franklintown Road	February 9, 1999	17	Adnan Musud Syed
Terrance Granger	3700 Franklintown Road	October 8, 1999	22
Unidentified Man	Franklintown and Wetherdsville Roads	August 09, 2000
Brian Anthony Johnson	3400 Winterbourne Road	June 10, 2001	18	Eric Von Poole (although there are some questions regarding his conviction), Charles Antonio Ham, Carl Douglass Harrison
Christopher Hudson	4500 Windsor Mill Road	June 29, 2001	20
Adrian Anthony Jenkins	Franklintown and Wetheredsville Roads	December 9, 2001	21
Broderick Richardson	Franklintown Road	January 24, 2003	38
Carlos Herrea	Leakin Park	January 31, 2004	63
Margo Baker	4000 Clifton Ave	May 6, 2005	52	Ross Telp (her son)
Stephen Robinson	3200 Franklintown Road	October 9, 2005	55
Christian Nunez	4800 Franklintown Road	July 18, 2006	38
Leonard Nathaniel Garrett	800 Winans Way	October 7, 2006	24
Freddie Thornton	4300 Franklintown Road	December 23, 2006	69	Timothy Izzard
Riley Pettus	1300 North Woodington Road	June 7, 2007	43
Kwame Saka Osafo	3900 Winterbourne Road	October 10, 2007	21	Andre Cox, Gregory Lee charged then nolle prosequied
Yolanda Brown	3600 Winterbourne Road	March 20, 2008	36	William Vincent Brown is a suspect, he was found guilty of attempted murder of another woman in Leakin Park,and pleaded guilty to the murder of 2 women in other locations
Petro Taylor	3000 Franklintown Road	December 30, 2008	20	Grechauna Rogers, Sierra Pyles, Tenisha Lawson, Anthony O. Williams, Devin Melton, Lawrence Walker, Dominique Boone
Lemuel Wallace	3200 Franklintown Road	February 4, 2009	37	Kevin Pushia pleaded guilty, James Omar Clea and Kareem Jamal Clea were found "Not Guilty"
Michael Thomas	1900 Eagle Drive	March 29, 2010	29
Lois Jean Smyth aka Lois Vance	4400 Windsor Mill Road	May 29, 2011	40	Kenneth Brunetti
Oswaldo Santana	4700 Windsor Mill Road	February 29, 2012	21
Mary Tisdale	4900 Franklintown Road	September 29, 2012	62
Antoine Ellis	2000 North Forest Park Avenue	November 22, 2012	23
Vashon Conyers	3600 North Franklintown Road	January 30, 2018	30	Victim died in well due to trauma to the body
Ricky Tyrone Williams	4300 North Franklintown Road	July 15, 2018	36	Shooting victim
Albertus Nelson	4700 Franklintown Road	December 07, 2018	58	Shooting victim
Quante Thompson	4900 North Franklintown Road	June 08, 2021	23	Victim found with trauma to the body
Leandrea Sampson	Franklintown Road and Wynans Way	October 24, 2021	39	Female shooting victim found in burning car. Victim lived in Randallstown. Jermaine Jeter(boyfriend) charged.
Darron McCoy Jr.	Winans Way and Franklintown Road	January 17, 2022	23	Shooting victim. 17 year old boy charged 02/01/22
James Moore	1 Morris Road	January 31, 2022	31	Shooting victim, Ronnie Harris Jr , 33-year-old Janay Barksdale , and 40-year-old Morgan Reed all charged 03/11/22
Unidentified Man	4300 Windsor Mill Drive	September 21, 2022	39	Victim found in burning vehicle in the trailhead parking lot. More information:

If you enjoy Leakin Park or enjoy finding abandoned artifacts in the woods, you may wish to visit my Ghosts of Leakin Park site. If you want to look at a handy trail map for the park you can visit my Leakin Park Trail Map site. General information about 2013 Baltimore City Homicides can be found here.

Update January 6, 2011 I'm getting inquiries from people about murders for years gone by. I have created a helpful tutorial on how the search the Baltimore Sun archives yourself. If you can't find what you are looking for through the Sun Archives you can email me with the approximate date of the murder, the name of the person murdered, the location of the murder and the home address of the murdered person or as much information as you know, and I will see what I can dig up. I am a busy person so you will have to wait patiently for the results.

Special thanks to the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Charm City Circulator, without their assistance this site wouldn't have been possible. Also I would like to thank Thea Pederson for her attention to detail and good eye.

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How to use the Baltimore Sun Archives and the library to search for old murder cases (and other stuff)

In the furthest reaches of your memory do you have an old murder that you want to learn about? Or maybe there is an urban legend kicking around that you want to confirm or deny? Or how about if you just want to know more about something that happened in the past. Allow me to show you how to find out what you need to know. All the resources you need are right here on the Internet.

Naturally, you can do your research any way you wish, but I will share my own methodology. Below is a quick list of the web sites that you will find useful.

Baltimore Sun Archives

Enoch Pratt Free Library Newspaper Databases

Baltimore County Public Library Newspaper Archive List

Maryland Judiciary Case Search

Maryland Department of Corrections Inmate Locator

First let's talk about how Baltimore Sun's reporters report on murder cases. Do a search on what you know already. They almost always list the following:

Name of victim
Name of alleged murderer
Hundred block of murder site
Hundred block of both victim and murderer's home address
Neighborhood of murder site

Once you have some general information, you will also need a range of dates in which the murder/event took place. So think about what you were doing when the event took place and you can start there. The Baltimore Sun Archives is missing the years between 1987-1990.

There are 2 ways of accessing Baltimore Sun articles from yesteryear for no money at all.

1. The Enoch Pratt Free Library

You are free to visit the EPFL Central Library at 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Enter the lobby, take a left and go straight to the Newspaper Room. There you will confront some scary library ladies who will give you a dirty look. Bring your A-game with you. Be polite. Tell the scary ladies what you want and they will give you specific instructions. Do not ask for special favors, do not make small talk, do not look right, do not look left. They will tell you exactly what to do to extract the information you need from the microfilm. Follow the rules. You can make paper copies of the article @ $0.20 per page or you can make downloadable jpgs with their new-fangled machinery if you bring your own thumb drive. Once you get the swing of things it becomes quite easy.

Update 11/20/11 Since I first published this post the kind people at the Enoch Pratt Free Library has added the Baltimore Sun to the EPFL Newspaper Databases it provides to the library-going public. Just like in Baltimore County you will need a library card to access them from your home OR you can visit an EPFL branch and use the computers in the library.

2. Baltimore County Public Library On-Line Newspaper Archive Database

For this you will need a Baltimore County Public Library library card. Baltimore County library cards are available to anyone. You can apply on-line for a Baltimore County Library card here. You will also need to sign up for their on-line account management system which requires and email address. Once you are hooked up into the Baltimore County System you can access the many online newspaper databases Baltimore County provides, Baltimore Sun, Afro American, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor.

Baltimore County Public Library Newspaper List

Once in the archives, type the street names, victim names, and whatever other identifying search words into the search box. Next choose the appropriate database and date ranges. I'd go with "relevance" because that will help you avoid anything in the classified ads or notices, you want the articles. Keep searching until you find the articles you seek. Once you find the articles that are relevant write down the date of the newspaper and the page number.

Okay, now you have the information about the murder and you want more information about the people involved. I recommend using the Maryland Judiciary Case Search to find out all about the interactions the people involved had with the judicial system. The case search only harkens back to 1990 or so, but for recent criminal events it should be able to give you the big picture. For common names you may need the middle initial or birth date.

Once you have the murderer's name you can figure out whether he/she is still a guest of the state by using the Maryland Department of Corrections Inmate Locator. Again, for common names you may need the middle initial or birth date.

Masonville Cove Revisted - Baltimore, MD

First and foremost, for an explanation of my initial visit to the cove please visit my original blog post on the Masonville Cove. I have no picture for this current post so if you want to see what it looks like you'll have the refer to the other post.


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Okay, now that you have read the old post let's fast forward to October 2010. I have been doing a lot of bird watching over at Ft. McHenry and have been watching the dredge activity over at Masonville Cove. If you look at the Google Map Satellite imagery viewable now (October 2010) in the above map it is completely inaccurate. The Port Administration has annihilated the cove, the ferry is gone and so are a lot of the other boat relics that were there. The cove area to the east of the Mercedes Benz parking lot has been filled in and now there are new land formations all over. The last 2 years have been a noisy busy mess.

I had to go over to Brooklyn yesterday so I figured I would stop in over at the cove to see what was going on. The Masonville Environmental Center has been erected, finished and staffed. According to the Masonville Cove Environmental Center Website it is sort an education center. I was there at noon on a Monday. There was staff in the building but the door was locked. I knocked anyway. The staff told me the building was not open to the public that day, I asked to look around which they allowed me to do. Nobody offered me a map or instructions on what to do or see at the cove. The staff seemed busy preparing their lunches. I opted not to ask any questions because I feared the staff would tell me I had to leave the cove and go away which wasn't going to happen. I didn't feel like getting into a pissing match with a ponytail.

Now I was left with a dilemma, I wanted to see the cove but I didn't want the staff to notice I was in the cove. Fortunately for me I remembered to wear my camouflage. The beauty of Masonville Cove Environmental Center is that the center is completely obscured in the woods. As long as one stays to the west of the center they can't see you. So that is where I decided to go. I left my car in the Environmental Center's parking lot which I will probably never do again. The parking lot has a gate and I was worried that the gate might get closed. Next time I visit I will leave my car somewhere on Frankfurst Avenue so the staff can't see it and I won't have to worry about the gate. I also want to forwarn you that due to the dredging the entire area really really stinks, it stinks bad.

I walked west on Frankfurst Ave. and used the gated road entrance to access the cove (see map). Then I walked a few hundred feet to get to the water's edge. There is a road that goes to mulch parking lot there. Then you have to bushwhack. Some of the coastline there rises about 20-30 feet above the water and makes for a good place to watch the birds. This was pretty exciting because an osprey was busy diving for fish not 50 feet in front of me. There was lots of osprey activity. Across the cove area I noticed a kingfisher enjoying the rocks. I looked over to the Mercedes Benz parking lots and saw a bald eagle atop the big light poles. It's October and I have always noticed the balds on the Patapsco at this time of year. My guess is that they are coming from the north, performing their southward migration to South America to hang for the winter.

I wanted to know what the land looked like as it went out further to the point. So I started to walk northward. There was no trail, I was doing a lot of difficult bushwhack in lots of thorns and invasives. I got to an area where there was a group of trees and all hell seemed to break loose. The trees came alive with big blue herons squawking and flapping their wings. Now, this answered a question I had about the big blues. As an avid birder over at Ft. McHenry I always wondered where the herons lived, as they seemed to always fly in from Masonville Cove. Herons are very particular as to what type of tree they like to perch in. This little group of about 4 trees that I stumbled upon must be the home turf of the area's heron population. With all my crunching the herons decided to vacate the premises. Before I knew it there was a big flock of large blue herons flying around the Patapsco River Basin which looked totally cool. I felt bad for disturbing them, and this is probably why I later learned the Masonville Urban Bird Sanctuary is off-limit to humans. I suppose I must have been in the bird sanctuary part of the cove. Who knew?

I managed to make me way out to the tip of the point and saw some old rotting pier posts. There were a variety of gulls and cormorants basking in the sun. It was nice and peaceful, I found some old shards of chinaware that were unusual. When I was at the environmental center I had notice a very small picture display of the history of the point. Apparently there once was entire rowhouse neighborhood on the point that was demolished because the railroad wanted the land. There are some old pictures of the neighborhood on the website here. I wonder where Matson and Mavin Street, in Masonville Cove once were? The neighborhood had 50 houses, a store and gospel hall. Do you know? Please add a comment if you do.

Anyway, I was getting a little worried about my car and that gate so I left Masonville Cove, maybe one day I will visit their legal hiking trails and learn more, that is if the Visitor's Center staff is a little more welcoming.

Update January 3, 2011 I went back to Masonville Cove a few days ago. This time I left my car at the parking lot but outside the gate alongside the Environmental Center Sign. I learned that the Maryland Environmental Services team closes the gate precisely at 3:30PM and that it is legal to leave your car outside the gate but not blocking the entrance way. Forwarning: There was a lady-of-the-evening actively looking for business out on Fairfield Ave. so be very aware that this is going on in the immediate area. Take precautions and protect yourself, especially if you are female.

I bushwhacked back to the cove to the water's edge that is on the west side near the concrete plant. This is migratory duck heaven. I saw:

Ruddy Ducks
Buffleheads
Common Mergansers both male AND female
Canvasbacks
Mallards
Herring Gulls
Blackbacked Gulls
Big Blue Herons

Next time I visit I think I might park at the Park&Ride at the intersection of Hanover Street. I am going to wear my baggy pants and hood, and then walk up 1/2 mile on Fairfield Ave to get back to the cove. As a woman in this section of town I don't want to be all that visible.

A Review of the DeLorme PN60 and SPOT Communicator

Before I begin I want to inform everyone that I am a long time user of DeLorme products. I cannot compare the DeLorme product line with any other brand because I simply don't know enough about Garmin and Magellan products.

The new PN60 and the SPOT Satellite communicator are the latest offering to the DeLorme handheld GPS product family. The increased functionality of the PN60 allows the user to take their hobbies and interests well beyond hiking, biking and geocaching. This is not your grandma's GPS. Yes, you can use it for all the basic activities but if that is all you need it to do I say save your money and use your iPhone.

First, let's talk about the SPOT Satellite communicator. When one is an avid backpacker they often find themselves in out-of-the-way places that don't have many cell towers. An accomplished backpacker will be prepared for anything and most likely won't get themselves into trouble. However, every single backpacker has some sort of paranoid relative who sits at home being a worrywart. If you are the worrywart please quit whining and kvetching, and buy the backpacker in your life this product. I won't lie to you, the SPOT is a bit cumbersome to use but it will allow a hiker to communicate through satellites from anywhere on earth, and send a 40 character message through email or a Facebook post. There are more communication options but those are the 2 that I use, check the specs for more information. The beauty of the SPOT communicator is it is one-way communication. The backpacker can send messages out, the worrywarts of the world can't send annoying messages back. The message receiver will also get a Google-style map with the exact location +- a few feet of where the hiker is. Oh, and if the hiker gets into trouble in the outback they can get help by sending a distress signal to the US Air Force, though my mother could care less about that feature as she just wants to know that I'm alive and be able to keep tabs on me.

But now let's talk about the good stuff. By good stuff I mean Digital Globe Aerial Imagery. We are talking 30 cm aerial imagery on the screen with a green arrow showing exactly where you are. It is all about the imagery. Think about the clarity of the imagery you see on Google Earth, this is almost as good. I would say that the GE imagery for my urban area is 20 cm, though I'm guessing. The Digital Globe imagery is available for most of the entire globe, which means everywhere. If you don't live in the United States don't dispair. The PN60 will still work very well for you with these new aerial images although you are out of luck if you reside on the Afghanistan/Pakistan mountain border, everywhere else is available. So if you are in the woods and are looking for an old foundation or an artifact then most likely you'll be able to see it on the screen of your PN60 and it is fast. For all you history buffs this is the device for you.

I don't wish to get long-winded with this review. The PN60 works much like the PN40. There are a few new features I would like to mention. First, the new Sync window that works with DeLorme TOPO9.0 Software. The Sync Window uses the power of the Internet to automatically connect with DeLorme's Netlink Server. Sync will take care of all the firmware updates for your PN60 as long as your PN60 is connected to your computer. There is no more fooling with downloading zip files and trying figure out how to update your device. A feature worth mentioning is that it has become abundantly easier to organize waypoints in files, and the PN60 will store them as gpx. The device will hold a lot of waypoints, for the exact number you'll have to check with DeLorme. I have yet to fill my PN60 to its waypoint capacity. Lastly, a feature I have used that his been helpful to me is the ability to calculate the area within a track line while standing anywhere. This little-known feature might be of use to insurance adjusters, farmers and anyone in the landscaping business.

Here is a list of helpful links.

Click here for General Information about the PN60 and SPOT Communicator. There is a tab near the top of that page for product specifications.

Click this link to learn more about the Digital Globe subscription.

Here is a review I wrote years ago about the PN40, which goes into more detail about the features available on that device. The PN 60 is very similar to the PN40.

Here are two interesting blog posts that I have created using the PN60. These are good examples of how to use a handheld GPS device for more than just geocaching and hiking:

Ghosts of Leakin Park site This site allows the user to learn about forgotten artifacts that can still be found in a popular and expansive urban park. This site took me months to create but has proved to be quite popular.

The Famous People Buried at Green Mount Cemetery site This site allows one to find the grave markers of several notable people buried in the cemetery. One may use the site to transfer the placemarks to any brand of GPS or phone so they may easily find the graves that interest them.

Ghosts of Leakin Park - Baltimore, Maryland

Leakin Park, rife with its mysterious dark history and haunting intrigue, is filled with artifacts,and the flotsam and jetsam of yesteryear. The park played host to a wealthy Winan family's Crimea estate, several mills, the Mt. Holly Inn, an old trolley line, two cemeteries, a Bollman Truss bridge, and the home of the Dr. Jesse William Lazear, who cured yellow fever. If you want to spend an afternoon poking around, feel free to click on the map to see what neat stuff can be found in the forest if you dare venture off-trail. Have fun searching for yesterday's debris.

Click on this link Ghosts of Leakin Park to use this in Google Maps for your Droid, Verizon or Blackberry

Index
Artifacts

Barbecues	Location	Information	Martin House	Location	Information
Baseball Field	Location	Information	Mill Race	Location	Information
Bergner Mansion	Location	Information	Mock Fort	Location	Information
Bollman Truss Bridge Marker	Location	Information	Mt. Calvary AME Baptist Church	Location	Information
Burial Mounds	Location	Information	Norman Van Allan Reeves Marker	Location	Information
Cemetery of Leakin Park	Location	Information	Old Bathroom	Location	Information
Eagles at the Entrance	Location	Information	Orianda House - Crimea Estate	Location	Information
Former Hotel Site Mt. Holly Inn	Location	Information	Pumping Station	Location	Information
Forlorn Little Picnic Table	Location	Information	Secret Tent Site	Location	Information
Foundation of Caretaker's House	Location	Information	Springs	Location	Information
Giant Sundial	Location	Information	Tiny Bridge in the Woods	Location	Information
Hodnot Farm	Location	Information	Tschudi Cemetery	Location	Information
Honeymoon Cottage	Location	Information	Trolly Street Car Lorraine Line	Location	Information
Horse Stable Ruins	Location	Information	Utility Building	Location	Information
Jastrow Shelter	Location	Information	Water Tank	Location	Information
Jerome Sloman Memorial	Location	Information	Water Wheel	Location	Information
Light Post on the Windsor Mill Bridge	Location	Information	Windsor Mill Place Mansion Site	Location	Information
			Winterbourne Mansion	Location	Information

Smarthphone and Garmin/DeLorme/Magellan Users

You can go to the Alltrail site to get these placemarks in a waypoint file format to download on your GPS handheld in a gpx file. You can also use the Alltrail site to use these placemarks with an iPhone applications. Just click on the Alltrail map here then scroll down and view the pane on the right hand side and follow the instructions.

Most of the information published here comes from discussions I have had with Rick Smith over at Friends of Orianda House or Heide Grundmann with Friends of Gwynns Fall Leakin Park.

If you want a GPS-friendly trail map for Leakin Park that will assist when you find these artifacts you can click on this Leakin Park Gwynns Falls Trail Map.

If you are interested in learning more about the bodies that have been left in Leakin Park you might visit the Bodies of Leakin Park site.

If you like this site you might also like its sister site Ghosts of Druid Hill Park.
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My summer buddy

This guy actually knows me. If there is no one else around he lets me get close.

How to Park for Free at Hershey Park, Hershey Stadium or Giant Center

$10 is a lot of money to waste on parking. Let's face it, there is no need to pay if you are willing to walk a few blocks and don't mind a shuttle bus.

Simply use the free street parking that is available around town deep in the neighborhoods and either walk or ride your bicycle to the Hershey Museum. Watch the street signs because some streets have only 2 hour parking. Behind and to the right of the Hershey Museum you can walk across an enclosed overpass walkway. Once across you can wait for the free shuttle bus that operates when Hershey Park and Hershey Museum is open. It will take you to Hershey Park. The shuttle hours vary so make sure you find out what they are so you can plan your return. You can walk to the park too. Either use the overpass walkway or the Park Avenue Bridge and follow the asphalt path from there. Once you arrive at Chocolate World you can walk to the Stadium or the Giant Center quite easily. See map for details.

The Shuttle bus is free for visitors of Chocolate World and the Hershey Museum. It costs nothing to be a visitor at the Museum gift shop and Chocolate World. In fact, the Chocolate World ride is free and they give you free candy samples at the end. Might as well enjoy the air conditioning while you are there. After you "visit" you can continue on to the Giant Center or Stadium and do what you need to do.

Here is a link to this Google Map.



While riding the shuttle bus this may not be a good time to give a lecture on the evils of indulging on sugar, lack of exercise and childhood morbid obesity. Trust me, this won't be a receptive crowd.

Derry Township, Hershey, PA Municipal Public Park Locations Map

For anyone that is wondering where the public parks are in Derry Township and Hershey, PA click on the icons on this Google Map:

Boathouse Park	Brookside Park	Bullfrog Valley Pond
Cocoa Castle	Founders Park	Gelder Park
Koons Park	Palmdale Park	Shank Park
Union Deposit Ball Fields

You may click on this Google Map Link for easier use of this map.

Old Holy Trinity Cemetery - Eldersburg, Maryland

This brings me back to my preblog life. Years ago I became interested in old Episcopal cemeteries, simply because I liked the stories the Episcopalians wrote on their tombstones. Since there was no Internet at the time I made some phone calls. I ended up talking to this guy named Jim Purman who took care of some strange abandoned odd cemetery in the plasticified burbs west of the city. He put me on a mailing list and for years I've been getting paper biannual newsletters about the Old Holy Trinity Cemetery in Eldersburg, MD mailed to my home address. I've read every single word of the newsletters and feel I know everything that is going on with the place but I never took the time to figure out where it was. I went to the official website of the Holy Trinity Cemetery but there wasn't a map, only poorly written directions. Then I went to Google and stared at the aerial imagery for hours and finally located this lost little cemetery behind a strip mall. I figured the least I could do for these folks is make them a little Google maps so people can find it.

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Leakin Park Gwynns Falls Trail Map -Baltimore, Maryland

Here are some hike and bike trail maps for Leakin Park and most of the Gwynns Falls Trail that will work nicely with your GPS, Garmin or Smartphone. The first one is in Everytrail which will work with your iPhone, Garmin handheld GPS unit and is also downloadable in gpx and kml (Google Earth) file formats if you want to download the file for use with your Garmin, Magellan or DeLorme mapping software. The second is in Google Maps and you may use it on your Droid, Garmin Windows Mobile or Blackberry by saving it to your Google Maps "My Maps" or use the Send-to feature for Garmin. These maps should be to help bikers, hikers and geocachers. They were made by my knowledge of this park and by tracing another trail map.

Here it is in Everytrail, click on the title link and it will take you there on the Internet.
Leakin Park Gwynns Fall Trail Mapx - Baltimore, Maryland at EveryTrail


Here it is in Google Maps, click on the link at the bottom and it will take you Google Maps on the Internet.

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For those of you who enjoy history you might want to check out my GPS-friendly Ghosts of Leakin Park site.

For those interested in learning more about the bodies that have been left in the park you may visit the Bodies of Leakin Park site.

Savage Park Trail Map, Howard County, Maryland

Here is a trail map I have created for Savage Park. The Everytrail version is great if want to transfer the trails to your handheld GPS such as Garmin, Magellan or Delorme, as it is downloadable in gpx and kml (Google Earth) file formats. The Everytrail version also works very well with your iPhone with an easy Send-To feature. Below that map you will see the same map in Google Maps that can be utilized with your Android, Windows Mobile, Garmin and Blackberry devices by adding it your Google Maps "My Maps". These maps are great for hiking, biking and geocaching.

Here is the EveryTrail version. Just click on the title link and it will take you there.
Savage Park Trail Map for you in gpx at EveryTrail



Here is the Google Maps version, click on the link if you need to use it:

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Jacob Haubert, Baltimore

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Ilchester to Ellicott City Bushwhack, Patapsco State Park - Maryland

I took a little hike in the woods today. You can read all about it if you click on the Everytrail link below.

Patapsco State Park - Ilchester to Ellicott City

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Green Mount Cemetery Map - Famous People, Baltimore

Here are 2 GPS-friendly maps you can use to find the headstones or grave markers of the 78 notable people buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as a clickable list of some of the people buried at the cemetery. These maps should assist you in finding the graves in the cemetery. If you are looking for the grave site of a specific person click here for the Google Map site. On the new Google Map page you will find an index of people listed in alphabetical order on the left pane. If you click on the name it will take you to the location on the map.



Here is the Google Maps version:

View Green Mount Cemetery Plot Map - Famous People at Google Maps


The people associated with these waypoints (click on name for more information):

Arunah Abell	Annie Armstrong	Samuel Arnold	Edwin George Baetjer
General Henry Bankhead	John R Bland	A Aubrey Bodine	Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
John Wilkes Booth	General Richard Bowerman	Augustus Bradford	General Joseph Brent
Jessie Bright	Alexander Brown	Frank Brown	J Archibald Campbell
John Lee Chapman	General James Deems	General Levi Axtell Dodd	Allen Dulles
John Eckhardt	General Arnold Elzey	Isaac Emerson	James Swan Frick
General Charles Gaither	Robert Garrett	General John Gills	Robert Goodloe Harper
James Hodges	Johns Hopkins	General Benjamin Huger	Obed Hussey
General Joseph Johnston	Harriet Lane Johnston	William Keyser	Sidney Lanier
Ferdinand Latrobe	James Law	J Wilson Leakin	General Henry Little
J Walter Lord	The Lucas Family	D. John G Machen	Etta Haynie Maddox
William Marburg	Theodore McKeldin	Louis McLane	Robert McLane
Robert M McLane	Harry Nice	Robert Norris	Daniel S Norton
Michael O'Laughlin	Robert Oliver	Enoch Pratt	James Preston
Samuel Ready	General Lawrason Riggs	WH Rinehart	Admiral Cadwallader Ringgold
Albert Ritchie	Commodore Thorton Rollins	Moses Sheppard	Morris Soper
General George H Steuart Sr	General George H Steuart Jr	Thomas Swan	General Isaac R Trimble
General Erastus Tyler	Joshua Vansant	Severn Teakle Wallis	Henry Walters
William T Walters	General Henry Warfield	Olivia Cushing Whitridge	William Pinkney Whyte
Thomas Wildey	Ross Winans	General John Winder	General William Windsor

The Green Mount Cemetery Map at Everytrail can be easily used with your iPhone, you can also download a gpx file of the grave locations for used with just about any handheld device including GPS receivers such as Garmin and DeLorme, and you can also download a kml file to view in Google Earth. Just click on the Everytrail link and EveryTrail can help you out with transferring the grave locations.

Green Mount Cemetery Baltimore Famous People Burial Site Map in EveryTrail