Cemeteries in South Portland,
Maine
Bayview cemetery
781 Sawyer Street
Brown’s Hill Cemetery
179 Ridgeland Avenue
Calvary Cemetery
1461 Broadway
Forest City Cemetery
232 Lincoln Street
Skillin Cemetery
Running Hill Road
Wescott Cemetery
Marcelle Avenue
Originally an old Quaker Burying
Ground.
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Transcription done by Mandy Browne
Brown’s Hill Church (now the First
United Methodist Church) was
dedicated in 1868, adjoining it was
Brown’s Hill cemetery. It is rarely used
now.
Dedicated on August 8, 1858. The new
Calvary section was dedicated
June 24,1927.
Started by Thatcher Post number 11,
Grand Army of the Republic of
Portland in 1903.
Jewish Cemetery
Smith Street
Highland Memorial Cemetery
881 Highland Avenue
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
258 Cottage Road
Old Settler’s Cemetery
Fort Road
(Southern Maine Community
College)
Around the turn of the century a
number of Jewish families purchased
a small section of land for a cemetery.
It was the first Jewish Burial Ground in
the area.
In 1925 a private corporation known as
the Highland Cemetery Association
was formed to create a public cemetery
located on Highland Ave. Due to
financial problems, the association
broke apart and the cemetery was
neglected. In 1976 the South Portland
Lions Club cleaned up the cemetery as
a community project. They decided to
continue with the upkeep and gained
control of the cemetery
in 1985.
In 1734 a meeting house was built in
the southwestern corner of what
is now Mount Pleasant Cemetery. A
burial ground was created around the
church. This was the beginning of the
present day First Congregational
Church and today the cemetery is
taken care of by the Mount Pleasant
Cemetery Corporation.
South Portland’s oldest landmark
(1658).