Mount Pleasant Cemetery (also known as Mount Pleasant Catholic Cemetery) is a cemetery in

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. Established as Bangor's Roman Catholic burial ground in 1854, it originally included 14 acres. It now includes over 69 acres.John T. Frawley
Early History of the Catholic Church in Bangor
March 21, 2004 The need for a primarily Roman Catholic burial ground arose from a rapid influx of Irish Catholic immigrants to Bangor in the 1850s and onward. Many Roman Catholic residents from nearby Buck Street Cemetery were re-interred at Mount Pleasant as well.

Notable interments

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