This cemetery was built in 1874 with the chapel, a tiny scaled-down church, built in 1892 by a German congregation that had run out of space at Immanuel Cemetery downtown (that's the simple version, at least.)

This cemetery is located in once-suburban Northeast Baltimore, now well-within city limits. It's part of a cluster of three stand-alone cemeteries with tiny chapels; the other two are Jewish and Catholic and served congregations downtown. The cemeteries encouraged the building of a rail line so that the citizens of Baltimore could visit their dead, and enterprising Germans capitalized on this and built biergardens so that people could make a full day out of their trek up north. Then, of course, came the development that filled in between the cemeteries - some work on laying out roads and medians was done by Frederick Law Olmsted's firm.

Many graves and inscriptions are written in German. Fun fact: they are still selling plots!

More info at Immanuel Lutheran's website

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