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Evergreen Cemetery is a garden style
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in the Deering neighborhood of
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,
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. With of land, it is the largest cemetery in the state. Established in 1855 in what was then Westbrook, the cemetery is home to one of the state's most prominent collections of funerary art. The historical portion of the cemetery was listed on the
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in 1992.


History

The cemetery was established in 1855 in Saccarappa ( Westbrook) and became the area's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery. The original parcel appears to have been about , which was repeatedly enlarged beginning about 1869. As of March 2011, only were used for cemetery-related activities. The cemetery holds the records for
Forest City Cemetery Forest City Cemetery is a cemetery in South Portland, Maine, owned and operated by the adjacent city of Portland. There are approximately 30,000 burials in the cemetery. Forest City's burial records are kept at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland. ...
in South Portland. In April 2014, it was announced the cemetery would add an additional 800 to 1,000 gravesites near the main entrance while also adding a
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, which will hold cremated remains above ground. An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people are interred in the cemetery.


Description

The main areas of the cemetery are laid out in with winding curvilinear paths, typical of the rural cemetery movement popular in the 19th century, while later sections of the cemetery are typically (but not entirely) laid out in a more rectilinear fashion. A number of architecturally significant mausoleums are located in the cemetery, the most prominent of which are the Chisholm Tomb and the
F.O.J. Smith Tomb The F.O.J. Smith Tomb is an historic tomb in Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine), Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. It is the tomb of Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (1806–76), US Congressman 1833-39. It was probably built by Smith in 1860, ...
; the former is a small-scale Classical Revival replica of the
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, a Roman temple in
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,
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.


Wilde Memorial Chapel

Wilde Memorial Chapel is a
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-style chapel. It was built as a
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by Falmouth native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The
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building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capacity of 105.


Civil War veterans

Evergreen Cemetery contains the remains of about 1,400 veterans of the
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. A memorial to Civil War veterans was donated by brothers
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(then Governor of Maine) and Judge
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and dedicated on May 30, 1895. The monument consists of a metal soldier standing atop a granite base.


Notable interments

*
John Appleton John Appleton (February 11, 1815 – August 22, 1864) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the United States' first '' chargé d'affaires'' to Bolivia, and later as special envoy to Great Britain and Russia. Born i ...
, congressman and assistant secretary of state *
James Phinney Baxter James Phinney Baxter (March 23, 1831 – May 8, 1921) was an American politician, businessperson, historian, civic leader, and benefactor of Portland, Maine. He was elected as mayor of Portland for six single-year terms between 1893 and 1905. Hi ...
, businessman and Mayor of Portland *
Carroll Lynwood Beedy Carroll Lynwood Beedy (August 3, 1880 – August 30, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921 to 1935. He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin C ...
, congressman *
Hugh J. Chisholm Hugh Joseph Chisholm I (; May 2, 1847 – July 1, 1912) was a Canadian industrialist who later became a citizen of the United States. He was born in Chippawa, Ontario, to parents of Scottish ancestry. His early years as an entrepreneur in the ne ...
, paper magnate * Asa William Henry Clapp, congressman *
Nathan Clifford Nathan Clifford (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist. Clifford is one of the few people who have served in all three branches of the U.S. federal government. He represented Maine in the U.S. Ho ...
, US Attorney General and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court *
Lydia Neal Dennett Lydia Louisa Neal Dennett (August 17, 1798 - June 4, 1881) was an abolitionist and suffragist from Portland, Maine. Her home was a station on the Underground Railroad and Dennett helped Ellen Craft escape to England. Later, Dennett became involved i ...
, abolitionist and suffragist *
Neal Dow Neal Dow (March 20, 1804 – October 2, 1897) was an American Prohibition advocate and politician. Nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", Dow was born to a Quaker family in Portland, Maine. From a young age, he ...
, mayor, general, candidate for president, and father of the Prohibition Movement *
Francis H. Fassett Francis Henry Fassett (June 25, 1823 – November 1, 1908) was an American architect in Maine who built as many as 400 homes and buildings throughout the state. Working in the Victorian High Gothic and Queen Anne styles, he especially influ ...
, architect *
James D. Fessenden James Deering Fessenden (September 28, 1833 – November 18, 1882) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Primarily a staff officer and ...
, general *
Francis Fessenden Francis Fessenden (March 18, 1839 – January 2, 1906) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Eicher, p. 234. He was a member of the powe ...
, general *
Samuel Fessenden Samuel Fessenden (July 16, 1784 – March 13, 1869) was an American attorney, abolitionist, and politician. He served in both houses of the Massachusetts state legislature before Maine became a separate state. He was elected as major general i ...
, lieutenant *
Samuel C. Fessenden Samuel Clement Fessenden (March 7, 1815 – April 18, 1882) was an American abolitionist and United States Congressman from Maine. __NOTOC__ Early life and education Born in New Gloucester, Massachusetts (now in Maine), Samuel Fessenden gradua ...
, congressman *
Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden (January 23, 1826 – September 28, 1868) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Maine. __NOTOC__ Biography Born in Portland, Maine, he attended North Yarmouth Academy and Dartmouth College ...
, congressman * William P. Fessenden, congressman, senator and secretary of the treasury *
Frank Fixaris Frank Fixaris (May 6, 1934 in Torrington, Connecticut – January 13, 2006 in Falmouth, Maine) was an American sportscaster, anchor, reporter, and disc jockey, spending the majority of his career at WGME-TVbr>in Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine. ...
, sportscaster *
Elbridge Gerry Elbridge Gerry (; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat who served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from 1813 until his death in 18 ...
, congressman * Charles Goddard (1879-1951), playwright and screenwriter * Robert Christian Hale, lieutenant and congressman *
Obed Hall Obed Hall (December 23, 1757 – April 1, 1828) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire. Early life Born in Raynham in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Hall later moved to Madbury and then to Bartle ...
, congressman * Asher Crosby Hinds, congressman *
Charles Thornton Libby Charles Thornton Libby (September 28, 1861 – May 23, 1948) was an American author, genealogist, historian and lawyer. He wrote five known books: ''The Libby Family in America, 1602–1881'' (1882), ''Cash, Panics and Industrial Depressions'' (1 ...
, historian, genealogist and lawyer * John Lynch, congressman * Charles Mattocks, general * Joseph C. Noyes, congressman *
Albion Parris Albion Keith Parris (January 19, 1788 – February 11, 1857) was the 5th Governor of Maine, a United States representative from the District of Maine, Massachusetts, a United States senator from Maine, a United States district judge of the Unite ...
Governor, congressman, judge. *
John J. Perry John Jasiel Perry (August 2, 1811 – May 2, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Maine. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Perry moved with his parents to Hebron (now Oxford), Maine, in 1812. He attended the common schools and Maine Wesleyan ...
, congressman *
William Lebaron Putnam William LeBaron Putnam (May 26, 1835 – February 5, 1918) was a lawyer and politician in Maine. Putnam served as mayor of Portland, Maine from 1869–70 and later served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for t ...
, mayor *
Thomas Brackett Reed Thomas Brackett Reed (October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902) was an American politician from the state of Maine. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives 12 times, first in 1876, and serve ...
, congressman and Speaker of the US House of Representatives *
Ether Shepley Ether Shepley (November 2, 1789January 15, 1877) was an Politics of the United States, American politician. Shepley, a United States Democratic-Republican Party, Democratic-Republican, served in the Maine House of Representatives, Maine State H ...
, senator * George Foster Shepley, general *
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (Brentwood, New Hampshire, November 23, 1806; Deering, Maine, October 14, 1876) was a U.S. lawyer, legislator, and telegraph pioneer and financier. He was elected from the state of Maine to the United States House ...
, congressman *
John Calvin Stevens John Calvin Stevens (October 8, 1855 – January 25, 1940) was an American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style. He designed more than 1,000 buildings in the state of Maine ...
, architect *
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (May 26, 1818 – July 26, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Maine. Early life and education He was born in the town of Parsonsfield in the Massachusetts District of Maine, where he attended Parsonsfield Semina ...
, congressman *
Henry Goddard Thomas Henry Goddard Thomas (April 5, 1837 – January 23, 1897) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Early years A native of Portland, Maine, Thomas graduated from Amherst College in 1858 and was admitted to the bar shortly thereaft ...
, general *
William W. Thomas Jr. William Widgery Thomas Jr. (August 26, 1839 – April 25, 1927) was an American politician from Maine. Background He was born in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, the son of William Widgery Thomas and Elizabeth White (Goddard) Thomas ...
, Politician *
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, congressman


Gallery

File:Civil War memorial, Evergreen Cemetery, Portland Maine.jpg, Civil War Memorial File:Wilde Memorial Chapel.jpg, The Wilde Memorial Chapel at Evergreen Cemetery File:Baxter Monument - Evergreen Cemetery.JPG, The Baxter Family Monument in Evergreen Cemetery


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Cumberland County, ...


Notes


External links


Evergreen Cemetery page on ''Find a Grave''

Friends of Evergreen Cemetery

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