Ridge nestles between Leakin Park and built-up sections of Edmondson. Clockwise from Swann and Edmondson, its boundaries extend along Edmondson, Cooks Lane, Briarcliff, Winans Way, a zigzag path near the approach of Winans Way and Dead Run (close to School #89). Seminole Avenue, and a line parallel to and southwest of Walnut, Rokeby Road, and Swann. It has one church, a public school. and a fire house, and no industry or commercial establishments. It takes its name from the 25,000-acre seventeenth-century colonial tract which spread over much of Baltimore County, owned variously by John Bailey, father-in-law of John Calvert and son of George Calvert, and Benjamin Tasker, founder of the Baltimore Iron Works Company. Daniel Dulaney, James and John Swan, and William and Mary Frick also owned sections once designated "Frederickstadt." In the mid-nineteenth century much of the neighborhood formed the southern part of Crimea, the estate of railroad engineer Thomas Winans along Franklintown Road, the bulk of it today Leakin Park. "Crimea" acquired fame during the Civil War when mock fortifications erected by Confederate sympathizer Ross Winans failed to deter union troops from invading it and capturing him. Winans was imprisoned in Fort McHenry. His granddaughter, Celeste Marguerite Winans Hutton. resided at the estate until at least 1916. Property west of Brockwood formed the orchards and nursery of 'Breisgau' in the late nineteenth century. It was owned by horticulturalist John Cook, landscape architect to a number of Westside estates. Cook allegedly developed a hybrid tea rose on his thirty acres in 1873.

The blocks near Edmondson developed in the 1920s as an automobile suburb of detached homes with garages. A public school, Ten Hills-Rognel Heights (today Thomas Jefferson #232), the sanctuary and educational building for Lafayette Square Presbyterian, renamed Hunting Ridge, and an auto sales and service establishment on Edmondson, all went up before 1930. Duplex and row houses lined northern blocks after World War II. An influx of African-American home buyers and renters formed it into a racially integrated neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s.