Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a cemetery in Bangor, Maine. Established as Bangor's Roman Catholic burial ground in 1854, it originally included 14 acres. It now includes over 69 acres.[1]
The need for a primarily Roman Catholic burial ground arose from a rapid influx of Irish Catholic immigrants to Bangor in the 1850s and onward. Many Roman Catholic residents from nearby Buck Street Cemetery were re-interred at Mount Pleasant as well.[2]
Notable interments
- Arthur R. Gould, U.S. Senator from Maine
References
- ↑ http://portlanddiocese.org/sites/default/files/files/562-history.pdf
- ↑ Scee, Trudy Irene (2012). The Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History. The History Press. pp. 51–. ISBN 9781609493370. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
Coordinates: 44°48′46″N 68°47′27″W / 44.8128°N 68.7909°W
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