Whipps Cemetery

WHIPPS GARDEN PARK CEMETERY

3651 St. John's Lane
Ellicott City, MD

Parking is off street in the neighborhood on Waycross and Valley Roads
west of St. John's Lane.

Click here for program schedule.

HISTORICALLY:

Established in 1855, Whipps was a cemetery for the Whipps family who were blacksmiths in Howard County. Later lots were sold to the general puplic.

TODAY:

Whipps is maintained as a park for visiting and a venue for teaching environmentally sound gardening practices. Presentations take place throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall.

Howard County Master Gardeners maintain a number of garden areas in the one acre cemetery, including a butterfly garden and rose garden. They plant, nurture, and prune may native plants around the property. There is a permanent composting site at the cemetery and walking trails throughout. Work days for Master Gardeners are Thursdays from 9-12 in good weather, March through mid-November.

2009 GRANT

Whipps has been awarded a Howard County Watershed Enhancement Grant.

To increase citizen awareness of water quality in lakes, rivers and streams

Change community practices which may adversely effect overall water quality

All county residents are invited to visit the cemetery and view the riparian buffer of plants that will be planted as a demonstration project.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Residents of the Dunloggin/St. Johns community are needed to participate in the grant study.

Participants will:

Fill out a questionnaire

Read the provided educational materials

Attend presentations at Whipps

View the demonstration riparian buffer to be planted at the cemetery

All materials and presentations are provided free of charge by the Howard County

Master Gardener program.

To volunteer and for more information contact Barbara Sieg at 410-465-6721 or barbarasieg@gmail.com

For more information, contact WebMaster

Last updated: 06/9/2009

Whipps Cemetery

WHIPPS GARDEN PARK CEMETERY

3651 St. John's Lane Ellicott City, MD

3651 St. John's Lane
Ellicott City, MD