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    The Western Cemetery is an urban cemetery in Portland, Maine, United States. At one time Portland's home for the "poor and indigent", the cemetery is named...
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    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...
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  • Western Cemetery may refer to: Vestre gravlund, Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine) Western Cemetery (Cardiff) Western Cemetery (Cheshunt) Western Cemetery...
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    The West End is a downtown neighborhood in Portland, Maine. It is located on the western side of Portland's peninsula primarily on Bramhall Hill and is...
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    South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-most populous city in the state, incorporated in 1898. At the 2020...
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  • represented Portland in the 4th Legislature (1824). He died in 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island and is buried in Portland's Western Cemetery. "Resolves...
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    Stephen Longfellow (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    president of the Maine Historical Society in 1834. Longfellow died in Portland, Maine, on August 2, 1849, and was buried in the Western Cemetery. "Family of...
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    Samuel Longfellow (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    clergyman and hymn writer. Samuel Longfellow was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine, the last of eight children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow...
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    Albion Parris (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    practice in Portland, Maine from 1849 to 1852. He was the Mayor of Portland in 1852. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Maine in 1854...
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  • Portland, Maine, is home to many neighborhoods. Portland's Arts District is based around Congress Street in downtown Portland. The District includes the...
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    Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/ PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68...
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    John Neal (writer) (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    on June 20, 1876, and was buried in the Neal family plot in Portland's Western Cemetery. Neal's body of literary work spans almost sixty years from the...
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  • Cemetery, Yarmouth Webster Cemetery, Freeport Western Cemetery, Portland Woodlawn Cemetery, Westbrook Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor Kent Burying Ground...
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  • Franklin Stanwood (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    Maine. Stanwood was born at the Portland Alms House in 1852 and immediately adopt by Capt. Gideon Stanwood of Gorham. He was educated in the Portland...
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    Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 12,444 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan...
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    Eastern Cemetery is a historic cemetery at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Congress Street in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Established...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland, Maine, USA. 1633 - Casco settled. 1658 - Settlement renamed "Falmouth." 1659 - George...
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    Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as...
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    Elijah Kellogg (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    minister, lecturer and author of popular boys' adventure books. Born in Portland, Maine, Kellogg was the son of a minister and missionary to local Native Americans...
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    Prentiss Mellen (category Burials at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    were the vice-presidents. Mellen died in Portland on December 31, 1840, and was buried in its Western Cemetery. Greenleaf, LL.D., S. Herbert (1841), Reports...
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    Street is the main street in Portland, Maine. Around 5.77 miles (9.29 km) long, it stretches from County Road, Portland's southwestern border with Westbrook...
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    Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 8,269 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan...
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    The Western Promenade is a historic promenade, an 18.1-acre (7.3 ha) public park and recreation area in the West End neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Developed...
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    John Calvin Stevens House (category Houses in Portland, Maine)
    End neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Built in 1884, it was the home of architect John Calvin Stevens, and was one of Portland's earliest examples of...
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    F.O.J. Smith Tomb (category Monuments and memorials in Portland, Maine)
    The F.O.J. Smith Tomb is an historic tomb in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. It is the tomb of Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (1806–76), US Congressman...
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    Eastern Promenade (category Cemeteries in Portland, Maine)
    promenade, 68.2-acre (27.6 ha) public park and recreation area in Portland, Maine. Construction of the Promenade began in 1836 and continued periodically...
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    of Maine in Havana, Cuba, c. 1930 A 6-inch gun from Maine at Fort Allen Park in Portland, Maine U.S. Battleship Maine Monument Key West Cemetery, Florida...
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    The Gothic House (category Houses in Portland, Maine)
    House, is an historic house at 387 Spring Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1845, it is one of Maine's finest and earliest known examples of Gothic Revival...
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  • Joseph York Hodsdon (category People from Portland, Maine)
    in Portland, Maine, to Andrew Hodsdon and Rachel May York. Between 1869 and 1880, Hodsdon operated Caldwell & Hodsdon, a shoe factory in Portland. In...
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    Hugh J. Chisholm (category Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine))
    City. He is interred in an elaborate mausoleum at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. It was commissioned by his wife after his death and has been...
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