• Source: Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)

Evergreen Cemetery is a garden-style cemetery on Stevens Avenue in the Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine. With 239 acres (97 ha) of land, it is the largest cemetery in the state. Established in 1855, in what was then Westbrook, the cemetery is home to one of the state's most prominent collections of funerary art. The 140-acre (57 ha) historical portion of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.




History


The cemetery was established in 1855 in Saccarappa (Westbrook) and became the area's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery in downtown Portland. The original parcel appears to have been about 45 acres (18 ha), which was repeatedly enlarged beginning about 1869. As of March 2011, only 110 acres (45 ha) were used for cemetery-related activities. The cemetery holds the records for Forest City Cemetery in South Portland. In April 2014, it was announced the cemetery would add an additional 800 to 1,000 gravesites near the main entrance while also adding a columbarium, which will hold cremated remains above ground. An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people are interred in the cemetery.




Description


The main areas of the cemetery are laid out in with winding curvilinear paths, typical of the rural cemetery movement popular in the 19th century, while later sections of the cemetery are typically (but not entirely) laid out in a more rectilinear fashion. A number of architecturally significant mausoleums are located in the cemetery, the most prominent of which are the Chisholm Tomb and the F.O.J. Smith Tomb; the former is a small-scale Classical Revival replica of the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple in Nîmes, France.




= Wilde Memorial Chapel

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Wilde Memorial Chapel is a Gothic-style chapel. It was built as a mortuary chapel by Falmouth native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The granite building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capacity of 105.




= Civil War veterans

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Evergreen Cemetery contains the remains of about 1,400 veterans of the American Civil War. A memorial to Civil War veterans was donated by brothers Henry (then Governor of Maine) and Judge Nathan Cleaves and dedicated on May 30, 1895. The monument consists of a metal soldier standing atop a granite base.




Notable interments


John Appleton, congressman and assistant secretary of state
James Phinney Baxter, businessman and Mayor of Portland
Carroll Lynwood Beedy, congressman
Hugh J. Chisholm, paper magnate
Asa William Henry Clapp, congressman
Nathan Clifford, US Attorney General and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Lydia Neal Dennett, abolitionist and suffragist
Neal Dow, mayor, general, candidate for president, and father of the Prohibition Movement
Francis H. Fassett, architect
James D. Fessenden, general
Francis Fessenden, general
Samuel Fessenden, lieutenant
Samuel C. Fessenden, congressman
Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, congressman
William P. Fessenden, congressman, senator and secretary of the treasury
Frank Fixaris, sportscaster
Elbridge Gerry, congressman
Charles Goddard (1879–1951), playwright and screenwriter
Robert Christian Hale, lieutenant and congressman
Obed Hall, congressman
Asher Crosby Hinds, congressman
Seth Larrabee, attorney
Charles Thornton Libby, historian, genealogist and lawyer
John Lynch, congressman
Charles Mattocks, general
Joseph C. Noyes, congressman
Albion Parris Governor, congressman, judge.
John J. Perry, congressman
William Lebaron Putnam, mayor
Thomas Brackett Reed, congressman and Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Ether Shepley, senator
George Foster Shepley, general
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith, congressman
John Calvin Stevens, architect
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, congressman
Henry Goddard Thomas, general
William W. Thomas Jr., politician
Charles W. Walton, congressman




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See also


National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine
List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States




Notes






External links



Friends of Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery at Find a Grave
Portland Trails – Evergreen Cemetery

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Charles Mattocks
• Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
• Evergreen Cemetery
• Elbridge Gerry (Maine politician)
• T. A. D. Fessenden
• Charles Goddard (playwright)
• Ether Shepley
• Neal Dow
• Lorenzo De Medici Sweat
• Thomas Brackett Reed
• Samuel C. Fessenden