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Cemeteries In Maine
This list of cemeteries in Maine includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries. Androscoggin County * Riverside Cemetery, Lewiston * St. Peter's Cemetery, Lewiston Aroostook County * Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle Cumberland County * Calvary Cemetery, South Portland * Eastern Cemetery, Portland; NRHP-listed * Eastern Promenade has the 1812 cemetery, Portland * Evergreen Cemetery, Portland; NRHP-listed * Forest City Cemetery, South Portland * Grand Trunk Cemetery, East Deering neighborhood of Portland * Gray Cemetery, GrayRogak, Lisa (2004), ''Stones and Bones of New England: A guide to unusual, historic, and otherwise notable cemeteries'', Globe Pequat; * Hill Cemetery, Yarmouth * Ledge Cemetery (or Cemetery under the Ledge), Yarmouth * Mann Cemetery, Freeport * Old Baptist Cemetery, Yar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mann Cemetery
Mann Cemetery is an historic cemetery located in Freeport, Maine, United States. It was established around 1750 and was closed to burials in 1922."L.L. Bean in dispute over access road to old cemetery in Freeport" - '''', July 30, 2016 There are around 160 burials, most in unmarked graves. Dozens of blue plastic markers denote what are believed to be burials. The Mann family plot is surrounded by barbed wire, outside of which members of at least ten other families are buried. A dispute arose in 2016 with |
Togus National Cemetery
Togus National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Togus, Kennebec County, Maine. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of the end of 2020, had more than 5,300 interments. It is closed to new interments. History Named for an Algonquian Native American word for mineral water, the area the cemetery resides on was formerly a hotel and resort known as Togus Springs. The resort failed as a business due to the outbreak of the Civil War, and its owner died shortly thereafter. The federal government purchased the property for 50,000 dollars and established a veteran care facility. The first veterans were admitted on November 10, 1866. The facility was expanded and eventually had the capacity for 3,000 veterans. The cemetery itself is divided into two plots, the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery. The older West Cemetery was first established in 1865 and moved to its present location in 1867; it closed for int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Burying Ground
Kent Burying Ground is a historic cemetery at the corner of Fayette Corner Road and Oak Hill Road in Fayette, Maine. Established in 1880 by Elias Kent, it is unusual for its layout of concentric rings around a central monument, only known in one other cemetery in the state, the Wing Family Cemetery in nearby Wayne. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Description and history The Kent Burying Ground is located in what is now a rural part of Fayette, where Fayette Corner Road bends from west to north, and Oak Hill Road continues east. The cemetery is located just northeast of this threeway junction, occupying a rectangular parcel of slightly more than one-third of an acre. It is laid out as a series of concentric circular paths, separated by earthen berms retained by low granite walls, on which the grave markers are placed. At the center of the cemetery is a memorial marker labeled "Kent", which serves not as a burial marker but as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledgelawn Cemetery
Ledgelawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. Established in 1903, several prominent early business owners, notable summer residents, and other townspeople are buried in the cemetery. The need for a new cemetery was reported in the ''Bar Harbor Record'' on February 24, 1887: Notable burials Listed chronologically: * Frederick Lincoln Savage (1861–1924), architect * William Henry Sherman (1865–1928), businessman and author * Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), composer and conductor * George G. McMurtry (1876–1958), Medal of Honor recipient * Genevieve Fox (1888–1959), author See also * List of cemeteries in Maine References External links Partial plan of Ledgelawn Cemtery, drawn in 1903- Mount Desert Historical Society Ledgelawn Cemetery– Find a Grave Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com. Its stated mission is "to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodlawn Cemetery (Westbrook, Maine)
Woodlawn Cemetery is a publicly-owned cemetery in Westbrook, Maine, U.S. It was established in 1885. In 1933-34, Woodlawn was significantly improved by a make-work project by the Civil Works Administration. Three miles of avenues were given a coat of gravel among other improvements. It is the only cemetery in the city which offers winter burials. Notable interments * Alexander Speirs Alexander Speirs (died 5 October 1844) was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841. Speirs was the son of Archibald Speirs and his wife Margaret Dundas, daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas. In 1835 Spe ... (1859–1927), state legislator References External links * {{GNIS, 578673 Buildings and structures in Westbrook, Maine Cemeteries in Cumberland County, Maine 1885 establishments in Maine Cemeteries established in the 1880s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
The Western Cemetery is an urban cemetery in Portland, Maine, United States. At one time Portland's home for the "poor and indigent", the cemetery is named for its location in city's West End neighborhood and proximity to the Western Promenade. Founded in the 18th century, the land was acquired by the city in 1829. In 1841, the city expanded the cemetery to its present . The Western Cemetery was Portland's primary cemetery from 1829 to 1852, when Evergreen Cemetery was established in the suburb of Deering. It was an active cemetery until 1910. In October 2003, the cemetery began a restoration and reconstruction project was run by the Stewards of the Western Cemetery and the City of Portland and funded with municipal funds. Desecrations and disorganization The Western Cemetery is known for a large number of grave desecrations and general disorganization; for example, from July 1, 1988 to August 1, 1989, an estimated 1,942 tombs were desecrated. Likewise, it is unk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeport, Maine
Freeport is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 8,737 at the 2020 census. Once home to a prominent shipbuilding industry, timber operations, and farming, it is now known for its numerous outlet stores; Freeport is home to L.L. Bean, Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park, and the Desert of Maine. Freeport is part of the Portland– South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The Harraseeket Historic District is in Freeport. History The town was once a part of North Yarmouth called Harraseeket, after the Harraseeket River. First settled about 1700, it was set off and incorporated on February 14, 1789 as Freeport. It is probably named "from the openness of its harbor" (free from ice). Freeport developed as four villages—Mast Landing, Porter's Landing, South Freeport and Freeport Corner—all of which are now part of the Harraseeket Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the head of tide on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster Cemetery
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Riverside Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine)
Riverside Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, United States.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) Several prominent early business owners, sea captains and other townspeople are buried in the cemetery, including Leon Gorman, former president of L.L.Bean, which was founded by his grandfather, Leon Leonwood Bean. Although it was founded in 1869, Riverside Cemetery has graves dating to the 1700s."Cremation garden grows at Yarmouth’s Riverside Cemetery" – '', July 27, 2021 The cemetery's oldest burials are on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Cemetery
Randall Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Freeport Freeport, a variant of free port, may refer to: Places United States *Freeport, California *Freeport, Florida *Freeport, Illinois *Freeport, Indiana *Freeport, Iowa *Freeport, Kansas *Freeport, Maine, a New England town **Freeport (CDP), Maine, the ..., Maine, United States. Located at the corner of Lower Main Street (U.S. Route 1) and Desert Road, it contains seventeen headstones, the earliest dating to 1831. The small plot contains pine trees both in and around its low dry stone wall. The cemetery was part of the Randall family farm, run by Isaac (1770–1850) and Mercy Randall (1776–1840), a site now occupied by a Shaw's grocery store. The farm house and buildings were on the Shaw's side of the street, then a dirt track, while a barn stood on the opposite side of today's Lower Main Street. All the buildings were demolished when construction on the ramps to and from Interstate 295 began. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine)
Pioneer Cemetery, also known as the Pioneers Burial Ground and the Indian Fighters Cemetery, is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Dating to 1731, it was the first public burial place in Old North Yarmouth, which was then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) It stands on Gilman Road, around northeast of the Ledge Cemetery, and almost directly across Gilman Road from the Cutter House, which was completed a year earlier. Notable burials *Ebenezer Eaton (1674–1735), killed by Indians *Captain Peter Weare (1695–1743) * Joseph Weare (1737–1774), Indian fighter, son of Captain Peter, nicknamed ''the Scout'' *Deacon Jacob Curry Mitchell (1672–1744) *Captain James Parker (1689–1732), one of five local men tasked in 1727 with the management of the new town of North Yarmouth. Their affairs included laying out the highways. He was also the town's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
