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Prospect Hill Cemetery of Towson Prospect Hill Cemetery, founded in 1892, is non-profit cemetery and greenspace nestled in the heart of Towson, Maryland.

🌿 Some legacies continue giving long after a lifetime ends.Dr. John Summerfield Green Jr. practiced medicine in Towson d...
10/13/2026

🌿 Some legacies continue giving long after a lifetime ends.

Dr. John Summerfield Green Jr. practiced medicine in Towson during the 1930s and 1940s, when the community looked very different from the Towson we know today.

From his home on Allegheny Avenue, Dr. Green cared for local families through illnesses, injuries, and emergencies. During difficult times, patients who could not easily pay in cash sometimes brought what they could — eggs, chickens, produce, or other goods.

Before Towson had its own ambulance service, Dr. Green’s home could also become an important first stop for someone who urgently needed medical attention before continuing on to a hospital.

His story offers a glimpse into an earlier Towson, when a community doctor was not simply someone you visited in an office, but someone woven deeply into everyday neighborhood life.

Today, generations of the Green family are remembered together at Prospect Hill Cemetery. The family’s connection to this place has also continued in another meaningful way: unused burial lots were returned to Prospect Hill so they could become available again.

That kind of gift can help sustain the cemetery itself. Returned lots can provide new burial opportunities while helping support the ongoing care and preservation of these historic grounds.

The Green family’s story is a reminder that legacy is not only what we leave behind. It can also be what we choose to give back.

If your family owns burial lots at Prospect Hill that you no longer expect to use, we welcome the opportunity to speak with you about whether returning them may be an option.

To learn more, call Prospect Hill Cemetery at 410-252-8462.

✏️ For William Beverly Campbell, education extended far beyond the classroom.William Beverly Campbell (1934–2006), now r...
10/05/2026

✏️ For William Beverly Campbell, education extended far beyond the classroom.
William Beverly Campbell (1934–2006), now resting at Prospect Hill Cemetery, spent decades teaching, coaching, mentoring, and helping young people discover what they were capable of becoming.

A Princeton graduate, Marine Corps veteran, and Harvard-trained educator, William built much of his career at Gilman School, where he served as a teacher, administrator, and coach.

His influence reached beyond academics and athletics. William helped establish Gilman’s Upward Bound program, expanding educational opportunity and helping students prepare for college. He later brought his experience and commitment to education to Portland public schools before eventually returning to Gilman.

What stands out about his story is not simply the number of roles he held.

It is the kind of work they represented: teaching, encouraging, challenging, mentoring, and opening doors for others.

On World Teachers’ Day, we remember William—and the generations of educators whose influence continues long after a student leaves their classroom.

📚 Some careers leave behind buildings, inventions, or businesses. Teachers often leave something harder to see: an impact carried forward in other people.

10/05/2026

✏️ For William Beverly Campbell, education extended far beyond the classroom.
William Beverly Campbell (1934–2006), now resting at Prospect Hill Cemetery, spent decades teaching, coaching, mentoring, and helping young people discover what they were capable of becoming.

A Princeton graduate, Marine Corps veteran, and Harvard-trained educator, William built much of his career at Gilman School, where he served as a teacher, administrator, and coach.

His influence reached beyond academics and athletics. William helped establish Gilman’s Upward Bound program, expanding educational opportunity and helping students prepare for college. He later brought his experience and commitment to education to Portland public schools before eventually returning to Gilman.

What stands out about his story is not simply the number of roles he held.
It is the kind of work they represented: teaching, encouraging, challenging, mentoring, and opening doors for others.

On World Teachers’ Day, we remember William—and the generations of educators whose influence continues long after a student leaves their classroom.

📚 Some careers leave behind buildings, inventions, or businesses. Teachers often leave something harder to see: an impact carried forward in other people.

🚧 Before E-ZPass—and long before the Beltway—travelers on York Road stopped at a tollgate right here in Towson.The Towso...
09/29/2026

🚧 Before E-ZPass—and long before the Beltway—travelers on York Road stopped at a tollgate right here in Towson.

The Towson Tollgate stood on the west side of York Road, between present-day Linden and Willow Avenues. For decades, tollkeepers collected fees from travelers moving along what older generations appropriately called “the York Road”—the route leading from Baltimore toward York, Pennsylvania.

Several people connected to that gate are now remembered at Prospect Hill Cemetery.

James Phipps (1837–1913) served as tollkeeper from 1864 until 1881. His brother Harry Phipps (1854–1900) became the tollkeeper in 1898 and is pictured here outside the tollkeeper’s house with his daughter, Elsie May (Phipps) Held.

Years later, Richard Parker worked at the same York Road tollhouse near the end of its operation. A surviving receipt from March 1910 and a photograph of Parker outside the building capture the tollgate in its final year. The gate was last used on July 29, 1910.

Swipe through to see the same little tollhouse at different moments in its history—and one surviving piece of the everyday system that once shaped travel through Towson.

📷 Images 1 and 2 courtesy of Carolyn Knott. Image 3 via Baltimore County Public Library Legacy Web; source: Ruth Kuenne.

🍂 Fall does not arrive at Prospect Hill all at once.It begins quietly.A cooler morning. Softer afternoon light. A few le...
09/22/2026

🍂 Fall does not arrive at Prospect Hill all at once.
It begins quietly.

A cooler morning. Softer afternoon light. A few leaves beginning to change around the edges. The first hints of color appearing among the cemetery’s mature trees.

Over the coming weeks, the landscape will gradually shift from summer green to the colors of autumn, giving familiar paths and historic monuments an entirely different character.

That continual change is part of what makes Prospect Hill so beautiful to visit throughout the year. The history remains—but the landscape surrounding it is never quite the same.

On this first day of fall, the transformation is just beginning.

🍁 We invite you to visit Prospect Hill this season and watch it unfold.

🪦 A gravestone is more than a marker. It can be a historical record.This monument preserves more than a name. It records...
09/14/2026

🪦 A gravestone is more than a marker. It can be a historical record.

This monument preserves more than a name. It records a family relationship and even a deeply personal line chosen for remembrance.

Alverta May is identified as the wife of Wm. G. Shriver. Beneath her name are the words: “Many hopes lie buried here.”

A single gravestone can preserve far more than we might notice at first glance. Monuments may record family relationships, military service, professions, places of birth, religious beliefs, community affiliations, or words selected by the people who knew and loved the person being remembered.

Together, the monuments at Prospect Hill form an open-air archive of Towson history.

But stone is not permanent. Time, weather, vegetation, and changing environmental conditions can gradually soften lettering and obscure details that have survived for generations.

Preserving Prospect Hill means protecting access to these names and stories—for families, genealogists, historians, students, visitors, and future generations.

💚 If you value the history preserved here, please consider supporting the ongoing care of Prospect Hill Cemetery: https://bit.ly/450tI02

⚒️ Look across Prospect Hill and you’re looking at generations of work.Teachers. Engineers. Firefighters. Tollkeepers. B...
09/05/2026

⚒️ Look across Prospect Hill and you’re looking at generations of work.

Teachers. Engineers. Firefighters. Tollkeepers. Business owners. Military members. And countless others whose work became part of the communities around them.
Walk through Prospect Hill Cemetery and you begin to see just how many different kinds of lives—and careers—are represented here.

Some built things. Some taught. Some served. Some ran businesses. Some performed jobs that have nearly disappeared from everyday life.

Together, their stories remind us that history is not shaped only by famous people or extraordinary moments. It is also built through the work people do every day.

This Labor Day weekend, we remember the generations of working men and women whose lives, contributions, and stories are preserved here at Prospect Hill Cemetery.

🔎 In the months ahead, we’ll continue sharing more of these stories through our Professions of Prospect Hill series.

What profession from Towson’s past would you be interested in learning more about?

🏈 As the new college football season begins, we're remembering one of The Ohio State University's toughest linemen, a fo...
08/29/2026

🏈 As the new college football season begins, we're remembering one of The Ohio State University's toughest linemen, a founding Baltimore C**t, and a Towson legend laid to rest here at Prospect Hill Cemetery: Joseph Arthur Campanella (1930–1967).

Before making his mark in Baltimore, Joe was a standout at The Ohio State University, playing under both Wes Fesler and Woody Hayes. His most celebrated season came in 1950, when he helped lead the Buckeyes to become the #1-ranked defense in the nation, culminating in the now-legendary "Snow Bowl" against Michigan.

That year, Campanella's dominance at tackle earned him national recognition—he finished second in voting for the prestigious Outland Trophy, awarded to the best lineman in college football.

Lyal Clark, Ohio State's defensive line coach at the time, later said Joe was "one of the best defensive tackles I ever coached... strong and especially rough with his arms."

In 1952, Joe was drafted by the Cleveland Browns, played his rookie season with the Dallas Texans, and was one of the veterans selected to help form the new Baltimore C**ts franchise in 1953. He played six seasons in the NFL and eventually became the C**ts' Vice President and General Manager, working alongside Don Shula.

After retiring from the field, Joe remained deeply rooted in Towson—living in Campus Hills, coaching local football, and launching two beloved restaurant chains: Gino's Drive-In and Rustler Steak House.

And one piece of that history was remarkably close to home. The third Gino's location stood at 619 York Road, diagonally across from Prospect Hill Cemetery at 701 York Road—just a short distance from where Campanella is buried today. The former Gino's site is now home to Enterprise Auto Leasing.

Joe passed away suddenly at age 36, collapsing while playing handball with Shula. Just weeks earlier, he'd been promoted to C**ts GM. His funeral drew a crowd so large that floral tributes lined the road from York Road to his gravesite.

Joe Campanella left a legacy built on toughness, leadership, and loyalty—first as a Buckeye, then as a C**t, and always as a neighbor.

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Towson, MD
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