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America's second garden cemetery

Mount Hope, recognized as America's second garden cemetery, also managed the adjacent cemetery holding of the City of Bangor during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In total, Mount Hope owned or managed some 300 acres by 1995, property visited by the general public for educational and recreational purposes as well as providing crematory, mausoleum, and related cemetery services.

Coming of Age

As of April, 23rd. 2018, Mount Hope Cemetery will officially turned 185 years old, making it one of the nations oldest garden cemeteries. Established in 1834, concurrent with the incorporation that same year of Bangor, Maine, the cemetery's host city, the Mount Hope Cemetery Corporation, beginning with fifty acres, owned roughly 264 acres of land by 1996.

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Thank you for visiting us online. We have included information and documents to help answer many of the questions we often receive. However, should you have any questions that should require additional information, please contact us by email, info@mthopebgr.com, or by calling us at (207) 945-6589

The Complete History

"Mt. Hope Cemetery – A 20th Century History."
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"Mt. Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: A Complete History"
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