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The Western Cemetery is an urban cemetery in Portland, Maine, United States. At one time Portland's home for the "poor and indigent", the cemetery is named for its location in city's West End neighborhood and proximity to the Western Promenade.
This list of cemeteries in Maine includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries .
Western Cemetery was the primary burial ground for Portland from 1830 to 1852, and is a historic link between the earlier Eastern Cemetery and the later Evergreen. It includes many graves of Irish Catholics who fled the famine of that period, and prominent families, including the Longfellows.
The Western Cemetery covers much of the southwestern area of the West End. The West End is a downtown neighborhood in Portland, Maine. It is located on the western side of Portland's peninsula primarily on Bramhall Hill and is noted for its architecture and history.
Western Cemetery. Added: 1 Jan 2000. Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 90698. The land was purchased in 1829 and the cemetery established the same year. A later land purchase in 1841 expanded the cemetery to 12 acres, its present...
Western Cemetery. 4 Vaughan Street, Portland | Nominated to Places in Peril in 2013. The Issue. After 184 years of service, Western Cemetery, Portland’s second oldest cemetery, suffers from neglect and deferred maintenance. Its unmanaged, overgrown appearance has attracted vandalism.
31 ago 2022 · PORTLAND, Maine — The Western Cemetery in Portland is getting some repair work done on gravestones that have been broken, damaged, unreadable, vandalized, or buried. Peter Monro re-created a volunteer group called Stewards of the Western Cemetery.
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