Druid Hill Park is not just an historic park. (It is the city's oldest municipal park and one of the oldest in the country). It is also the final resting place for members of one of Baltimore's founding families.
The Rogers-Buchanan Cemetery is a family plot within the estate created by George Buchanan, one of the city’s founding commissioners (in 1729). When one of his descendants, Lloyd Rogers, sold the property to the City of Baltimore for use as a public park in 1860, one stipulation included that this small, half-acre acre plot remain, and that the city would forever maintain the property.
The last interment was in 1896, and the list of family members buried in the cemetery reportedly include the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and a Revolutionary War veteran. Since then, however, the space has become overgrown and endangered. The cemetery was officially named an Endangered Maryland site this year by Preservation Maryland, but it recently received a grant to begin restoration efforts.