Evergreen Cemetery records
Scope and Content note
Records of lot owners.
Dates
- Creation: 1854 - 1891
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
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Administrative note
Evergreen Cemetery is a garden-style cemetery on Stevens Avenue in the Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine. With 239 acres 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.
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Unknown.
Processing note
Vol.1 lot numbers go halfway through the book; turn and flip book to get last names.
Subject
- Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Me.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Evergreen Cemetery records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Donna Knoblock, Library Volunteer, April 2025
- Date
- April 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository