Fairmount Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Presque Isle,

Aroostook County, Maine Aroostook County ( ; ) is the northernmost County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Maine. It is located along the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 67,105. The county ...

. It is the largest cemetery in northern Maine, with over 30 acres of dedicated land. It overlooks the

University of Maine at Presque Isle The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMaine Presque Isle or UMPI) is a public college in Presque Isle, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine System and one of two University of Maine System schools in Aroostook County, Maine, Aroostoo ...

campus in the south of the city. More than 6,000 people are interred in the cemetery, including over 700 veterans. The cemetery was established in 1864 as a burial place for area Civil War veterans and is managed by the Fairmount Cemetery Association. In 2009, a partnership began between the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the cemetery to create a database for historic, cultural, and social research that would be accessible via the Internet and use GPS and GIS technology. It involved at least five departments and multiple paid research assistants from the university. In 2012, upon completion of the project, a website was unveiled that produced a Web-based map of the cemetery, including detailed information on those interred. Among those buried at Fairmount Cemetery are the painter Lucy Hayward Barker and fashion designer Jessica McClintock.

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Fairmount Cemetery Web site
prepared by the GIS Laboratory, University of Maine at Presque Isle * {{GNIS, 1910340, Fairmount Cemetery Buildings and structures in Presque Isle, Maine Cemeteries in Aroostook County, Maine 1864 establishments in Maine Cemeteries established in the 1860s