St. Peter's Cemetery (formerly the French Cemetery or Le Cimietière de la Congrégation Canadienne) is a

cemetery 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 buri ...

Lewiston, Maine Lewiston (; ; officially the City of Lewiston, Maine) is List of cities in Maine, the second largest city in Maine and the most central city in Androscoggin County, Maine, Androscoggin County. The city lies halfway between Augusta, Maine, August ...

. Located on of land, it was officially consecrated in 1876. It is operated by the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland The Diocese of Portland is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States comprising the entire U.S. state, state of Maine. It is led by a bishop, and its cathedral, or mother church, ...

. A number of burials occurred in the cemetery prior to its official inception in 1876 and over 45,000 burials have taken place since. In 1952, the cemetery was expanded by with the purchase of a nearby farm.

Notable interments

Lew Cody Lew Cody (born Louis Joseph Côté; February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934) was an American stage and film actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age. He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing "male vamps" in films ...

(1884–1934), Actor

References

{{reflist Cemeteries in Androscoggin County, Maine Buildings and structures in Lewiston, Maine 1876 establishments in Maine Roman Catholic cemeteries in the United States Cemeteries established in the 1870s