West
Mulberry West Mulberry's boundaries extend from Edmondson
and Mount Holly clockwise along My. Holly, Caton, the southwest boundary of Cathedral
Cemetery, Old Frederick, and Edmondson. Property of Edmondson High School formed
much of the late nineteenth-century estate of James A. Wilson. Housing plots in
the northeast corner were laid out by the Lynhurst Improvement Company in the
1890s, its row houses developed with Edmondson. Housing lined four blocks of Edmondson
Avenue and one block Loudon Street by 1921 and spread over every residential block
by 1931. Cathedral , or "New Cathedral," Cemetery opened in
1870 with an entry from Old Frederick Road on fifty acres of the estate of "Bonnie
Brae." Remains transferred from the Sandtown-Winchester cemetery included those
of Charles Carroll of Carrollton an thirty-six nuns who had perished in an early-century
cholera epidemic. The burial vault for the latter had been presented to the order
of the Sisters Of Charity in recognition of their service to the city. The Gothic,
solid granite mortuary chapel was built soon after the cemetery opened. Planned
as a small public high school in 1954, Edmondson-Westside Senior High was expanded
as it was built (1954 to 1960) to accommodate the large influx of the late 1950s.
The two- and three-story red brick facility was put up with an additional story
to accommodate 1850 students. |