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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 largest cemetery in the state. [ 2 ] Established in 1855, in what was then Westbrook , the cemetery is home to one of the state's most prominent collections of funerary art.
Evergreen Cemetery Tour is a seventeen-part, comprehensive, audio-visual introduction to this subject by Debra A. Novotny, who has served both as a Licensed Battlefield Guide and as a boardmember of the Evergreen Cemetery Association. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Evergreen Cemetery; Evergreen Cemetery at Find a Grave
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 1833-39. [2] It was probably built by Smith in 1860, at the time of his daughter Lizzie's death, and is one of Maine's most sophisticated expressions of Egyptian Revival architecture.
Evergreen Cemetery was established around 1860, but it does not appear to have been used extensively, except by the Chidsey family, until recent years. It was not included in the Hale census of Connecticut cemeteries conducted in the 1930s. The white-marble Chidsey obelisk is one of the chief objects of historical interest.
In 1966 the name Evergreen Memorial Park and Mausoleum was adopted, and burials continue today in the newer sections of the cemetery under that name. [ 3 ] The older sections of the cemetery, now named the Evergreen Historic Memorial Cemetery , were in disrepair for many years, but were restored in 2008 through a cooperative effort by concerned ...
Evergreen Cemetery is located in south central Medway, occupying about 13 acres (5.3 ha) bounded on the north by Evergreen Street and the east by Cottage Street. The principal drive through the cemetery runs north–south through the center, roughly paralleling a brook that ends in a pond near the center of the cemetery.
Since 1995, the McLean County Museum has offered tours of the cemetery the last Saturday & Sunday of September and the first Saturday & Sunday of October. [4] The Evergreen Cemetery Discovery Walk combines historical research by Museum volunteers, costumed actors from Illinois Voices Theatre, and Evergreen Memorial Cemetery into a week-long outdoor theatrical production.
In 1919, the Evergreen Cemetery Company started a competing cemetery on the western side of Aurora Avenue, directly opposite Washelli Cemetery. In 1922, Evergreen Cemetery purchased Washelli from the ANA, although the merger did not become final until 1928. By 1952, Evergreen had taken over the mausolea, crematory and columbarium. The cemetery ...