Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)

{{Short description|Catholic cemetery in Portland, Maine}}

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|name = Mount Pleasant Cemetery

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|established = 1854

|country = United States

|location = Bangor, Maine

|coordinates ={{Coord|44.8129639|-68.7909043|type:landmark_region:US-ME_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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|owner = Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland

|size = {{convert|69|acre}}

|graves= >17,000

|website = {{Official website|https://portlanddiocese.org/cemeteries-and-funerals/mt-pleasant-catholic-cemetery}}

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery (also known as Mount Pleasant Catholic Cemetery) is a cemetery in Bangor, Maine. Established as Bangor's Roman Catholic burial ground in 1854, it originally included 14 acres. It now includes over 69 acres.John T. Frawley, [http://portlanddiocese.org/sites/default/files/files/562-history.pdf Early History of the Catholic Church in Bangor], March 21, 2004

The need for a primarily Roman Catholic burial ground arose from a rapid influx of Irish Catholic immigrants to Bangor in the 1850s and onward. Many Roman Catholic residents from nearby Buck Street Cemetery were re-interred at Mount Pleasant as well.{{cite book|last=Scee|first=Trudy Irene|title=The Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KyzGKWuKrIC&pg=PA51|access-date=28 November 2014|year=2012|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-1609493370|pages=51–}}