Bangor History Lives On

Mount Hope Cemetery is the American’s second landscape or garden cemetery. Click on the image for more information.

The Receiving Tomb was designed by architect, Charles G. Bryant. Click on the image for more information.

Joseph H. Marie Junin was the first European settler murdered in Bangor. Click on the image for more information.

Henry David Thoreau referred to George Thatcher as "the relative" who accompanied him on his trips in the word, The Maine Woods. Click on the image for more information.

Rebecca Jane Billings Thatcher was a cousin to Henry David Thoreau. Click on the image for more information.

Lieutenant Charles A. Thatcher, son of George A. and Rebecca Billings Thatcher of Bangor. Click on the image for more information.

The Superintendent's Building is a typical turn-of-the-century, English half-timbered style structure. Click on the image for more information.

Samuel Veazie gradually acquired all of the 52 lumber mills located between Bangor and Old Town. Click on the image for more information.

Mount Hope Cemetery Association made several charitable contributions to the City of Bangor in the late 19th Century. Click on the image for more information.

Charles A. Peavey and James H. Peavey were the grandsons of Joseph Peavey, inventor of the peavey. Click on the image for more information.

Job Collett was a native of Melksham, Wiltshire, England and became a file cutter in the city of Bangor. Click on the image for more information.

Fanny (Fan) Jones life became the inspiration for Ardeana Hamlin's fictional book, Pink Chimneys. Click on the image for more information.

Fadeless floral ornament gravestone inventor, Annie French. Click on the image for more information.

Rufus Dwinel was a former mayor of Bangor and a millionaire lumber baron. Click on the image for more information.

United States 15th Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin. Click on the image for more information.

Amanda Skofield's Temple to Motherhood. Click on the image for more information.