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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 for its location in city's West End neighborhood and proximity to the Western Promenade.
Western Cemetery was the primary burial ground for Portland from 1830 to 1852, and is a historic link between the earlier Eastern Cemetery and the later Evergreen. It includes many graves of Irish Catholics who fled the famine of that period, and prominent families, including the Longfellows.
This list of cemeteries in Maine includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Western Cemetery covers much of the southwestern area of the West End. 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 noted for its architecture and history.
Stewards of the Western Cemetery provides continuing care for Portland’s historic Western Cemetery to overcome years of neglect and deterioration, and pays honor and respect to prior generations, war veterans, immigrants, and notable citizens through the restoration of their gravestones and burial sites.
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It is recognized as one of Portland’s designated historic landscape districts. The city purchased the land in 1829 and expanded the cemetery to its current 12 acres in 1841. It was the city’s primary burying ground from 1829 until 1852 when Evergreen Cemetery opened.
