Dorsey Graveyard at Arcadia in Ellicott City, Maryland

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Baltimore National Pike
Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042 USA
Cemetery ID: 2344967

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"A long unused Dorsey Family burial ground is located in Valley Mede, north of Rt #40, in the second District of Howard County on what was once the estate 'Arcadia'. The plot, enclosed by a sturdy stone wall, a century ago contained four generations of Dorseys in elaborate table-top tombs. Today [1959] the graveyard is neglected and overgrown, the wall tumbling down, and the tombs to badly vandalized that scarcely a stone is unbroken. In the late 1700's Caleb Dorsey, a surveyor, who signed himself 'of Thomas' built the original frame house at 'Arcadia', which stood (in recent years covered with asbestos shingle) until a short time ago when it was demolished to make way for a housing development. Still standing slightly to the south of the burial ground is the well preserved 'Brick House on the Pike', built by a son of Caleb Dorsey of Thomas, and presently the home of Mr and Mrs Eric Lassotavitch."

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
FROM A FEW
CEMETERIES IN HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND

recorded 1959 by the Gen.Rec.Com.,Col.Thos.Dorsey Chap.D.A.R.

reprinted 1991 by the Howard County Genealogical Society