Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)

	Mount Hope Cemetery District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	A view of Mount Hope Cemetery
Location	U.S. 2, Bangor, Maine
Coordinates	44°49′29″N 68°43′28″W / 44.82472°N 68.72444°W
Built	1834
Architect	Bryant, Charles G.; Mansur, Wilfred E.
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Late Victorian, English Half-Timbered style
NRHP reference No.	74000187
Added to NRHP	December 04, 1974

Mount Hope Cemetery in

Boston, Massachusetts.^[2]^: 15 Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping was modeled after that of Boston.^{[citation needed]} The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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History

Purchased in July 1834, the land consisted of 50-acre (20 ha) 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 3,300 feet (200 by 1,010 m) with the longer side extending north–south along State Street. Approximately 12-acre (4.9 ha) was to be set aside for horticultural activities, and the rest of the land was to be used as a cemetery.^[2]^: 17

This was the preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th- and early-20th-century elite. The cemetery includes the gravesites of

Governors of Maine,^{[note 3]} eight Civil War Generals,^{[note 4]} and numerous "lumber barons" and other local businessmen and politicians.^{[citation needed]} Actors Richard Golden and Ralph Sipperly are also buried there.^[3]

Representation in other media

The movie Pet Sematary was filmed in Mount Hope Cemetery.^[4]

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
Al Brady (1910–1937), Bank robber

Notes

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^
ISBN 9781609493370
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^ Reilly, Wayne (August 23, 2009). "Old Jed Prouty Buried at Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor Daily News.
^ Robbins, Ryan. "Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor In Focus. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.

External links

[3] Arthur R. Gould

[4] 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

[5] William D. Williamson, Harris M. Plaisted, Frederick W. Plaisted, and Israel Washburn Jr.

[6] John F. Appleton, Charles Hamlin, Cyrus Hamlin, Daniel Chaplin, Harris M. Plaisted, Charles W. Roberts, George Varney, and Daniel White

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[scree-2] 
ISBN 9781609493370
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[7] Reilly, Wayne (August 23, 2009). "Old Jed Prouty Buried at Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor Daily News.

[8] Robbins, Ryan. "Mount Hope Cemetery". Bangor In Focus. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.

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