Resources & Links

Sites related to Evergreen Cemetery:

Friends of Evergreen Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/friendsofevergreen/

Evergreen Cemetery’s page on findagrave.com
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/89863/evergreen-cemetery

Other historic cemeteries in Portland:

Eastern Cemetery (1668) - Spirits Alive friends group
https://www.spiritsalive.org/

Western Cemetery (1829) - Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Cemetery_(Portland,_Maine)

Information on Portland’s historic cemeteries from the City of Portland
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1168/Historic-Cemeteries

Regional historic cemeteries:

Maine Old Cemetery Association
https://www.moca-me.org/

Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine
https://mthopebgr.com/

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https://www.mountauburn.org/?cache

Other organizations with related missions:

City of Portland Historic Preservation Division
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/490/Historic-Preservation

Portland Trails
https://www.trails.org/

Maine Audubon Society
https://maineaudubon.org/

Greater Portland Landmarks
https://www.portlandlandmarks.org/

Maine Historical Society
https://www.mainehistory.org/

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/

Deering Center Neighborhood Association
https://deeringcenter.me/

Historic Cemetery Resources:

Rural Garden Cemetery movement (article on Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_cemetery

Association for Gravestone Studies
https://www.gravestonestudies.org/

Books:

Bold Vision: the development of the parks of Portland, Maine. Edited by Theo H.B.M. Holtwijk and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc. 1999

1876 Elwell’s Portland and Vicinity. Edward H. Elwell. Reprinted by Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc. 1975. 

Grave Landscapes: the nineteenth century rural cemetery movement. James R. Cothran, Erica Danylchak. The University of South Carolina Press. 2018.

Silent Cities: the evolution of the American cemetery. Kenneth T. Jackson, Camilo Jose Vergara. Princeton Architectural Press. 1989.

Silent City on a Hill: landscapes of memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery. Blanche Linden-Ward. Ohio State University Press. 1989.