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Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)

Field	Value
name	Mount Hope Cemetery District
nrhp_type	hd
nocat	yes
image	Mthope.JPG
caption	A view of Mount Hope Cemetery
location	U.S. 2, Bangor, Maine
coordinates
locmapin	Maine#USA
built	1834
architect	Bryant, Charles G.; Mansur, Wilfred E.
architecture	Greek Revival, Late Victorian, English Half-Timbered style
added	December 04, 1974
refnum	74000187

Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. It was designed by architect Charles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by the Bangor Horticultural Society soon after, the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city. The cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Boston, Massachusetts. Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping was modeled after that of Boston. The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Purchased in July 1834, the land consisted of 50 acre of Lot 27, which was set along State Street – at the time known as County Road and later the "Road to Orono" – and the Penobscot River. It did not include all of the cemetery's central hill; instead, it cut across the crest of the hill and met up with what would later be Mount Hope Avenue. The land was approximately 660 by with the longer side extending north–south along State Street. Approximately 12 acre was to be set aside for horticultural activities, and the rest of the land was to be used as a cemetery.

This was the preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th- and early-20th-century elite. The cemetery includes the gravesites of Hannibal Hamlin, a U.S. Vice President who had also held office as Congressman, US Senator and Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator,Arthur R. Gould ten U.S. Congressmen,Including John A. Peters, Samuel F. Hersey, George W. Ladd, Charles Stetson, Francis Carr, Charles A. Boutelle, Harris M. Plaisted, John G. Utterback, and Samuel Thatcher two U.S. Ambassadors, four Governors of Maine,William D. Williamson, Harris M. Plaisted, Frederick W. Plaisted, and Israel Washburn Jr. eight Civil War Generals,John F. Appleton, Charles Hamlin, Cyrus Hamlin, Daniel Chaplin, Harris M. Plaisted, Charles W. Roberts, George Varney, and Daniel White and numerous "lumber barons" and other local businessmen and politicians. Actors Richard Golden and Ralph Sipperly are also buried there.

Representation in other media

The movie Pet Sematary was filmed in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Notable burials

Franklin Muzzy (1806–1873), 32nd President of the Maine Senate
Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891), 15th Vice President of the United States, 26th Governor of Maine
Ellen Hamlin (1835-1925), 2nd wife of Hannibal Hamlin, Second Lady of the United States
Al Brady (1910–1937), Bank robber
Doris Pike White (1896–1987), 24th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Notes

References

{{NRISref. 2009a
Scee, Trudy Irent. (2012). "Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History". The History Press.
Reilly, Wayne. (August 23, 2009). "Old Jed Prouty Buried at Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor Daily News.
Robbins, Ryan. "Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor In Focus.

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