Keywords: Pine Grove Cemetery
Item 23335
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, 1869
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 20603
Charlotte Randall, Brunswick, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1890 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Exhibit
Most societies have had rituals or times set aside to honor ancestors, those who have died and have paved the way for the living. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is the day Americans have set aside for such remembrances.
