Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine, United States

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Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery notable as the final resting place of prominent figures including U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
garden cemetery
rural cemetery
architecturalStyle rural cemetery movement
continent North America
country United States
hasCulturalRole historic landmark of Bangor
hasFeature curving drives
family plots
mausoleums
monumental grave markers
ornamental landscaping
ponds
hasName Mount Hope Cemetery
hasNotableBurial Bangor lumber barons
Charles A. Boutelle
Civil War veterans
Edward Kent
Frederick Low
Hannibal Hamlin
John A. Peters
Samuel F. Hersey
Spanish–American War veterans
hasTourismType cemetery tourism
heritage tourism
hasUse burial ground
memorial landscape
heritageDesignation U.S. National Register of Historic Places listing
inception 1834
locatedIn Bangor, Maine
Maine
Penobscot County, Maine
locatedOnWaterbody Penobscot River (vicinity)
modeledAfter Mount Auburn Cemetery
NRHPListingCountry United States
NRHPListingState Maine
NRHPType historic district
openingDate 1834
operator City of Bangor
ownedBy City of Bangor
partOf Mount Hope Cemetery and Grounds Historic District
significance important example of 19th-century landscape design
one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the United States
significantEvent development of rural cemetery movement in Maine
usedFor commemoration of the dead
public burials

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Hannibal Hamlin
burialPlace

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