Welcome!
Thank you for visiting us online. We have included information and documents to help answer many of the questions we often receive. However, should you have any questions that should require additional information, please contact us by email, info@mthopebgr.com, or by calling us at (207) 945-6589.
Coming of age
On April, 23rd. 2009, Mount Hope Cemetery will officially turned 175 years old, making it one of the nations oldest garden cemeteries. Established in 1834, concurrent with the incorporation that same year of Bangor, Maine, the cemetery's host city, the Mount Hope Cemetery Corporation, beginning with fifty acres, owned roughly 264 acres of land by 1996.
America's second garden cemetery
Mount Hope, recognized as America's second garden cemetery, also managed the adjacent cemetery holding of the City of Bangor during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In total, Mount Hope owned or managed some 300 acres by 1995, property visited by the general public for educational and recreational purposes as well as providing crematory, mausoleum, and related cemetery services.
Looking for plot information?
Visit our interment page to locate by last name.
Cemetery Tours for 2011
Fridays at 5:00 pm: (first Friday of the month June-Ocotber)
June 3rd, July 1st, August 5th, September 2nd & October 7th
Saturdays at 10:00 am: (third Saturday of the month June-September)
June 18th, July 16th, August 20th & September 17th
For more information call The Bangor Museum and History Center at 942-1900
Weather permitting (If raining 1/2 hour before tour time it will be canceled)