Stones and Bones Ep. 4 - Mount Hope Cemetery

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A few years after Mount Auburn Cemetery was established, the city of Bangor in the state of Maine would follow its lead. Mount Hope Cemetery would become the second rural cemetery established in America. Bangor was named for the oldest city in Wales and is the "Queen City" of Maine. At the time that the cemetery was established, the city was known as the "Lumber Capitol of the World." And while the city was quite successful, its burial grounds were in bad shape. Many were abandoned and unkempt and the ones that were still being used were overcrowded. Bangor's mayor in 1834 even declared that the cemeteries caused a "soul chilling experience." This would change as the city decided to try its hand at this new garden cemetery experiment.

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0:00.0	There are places for our are dead.
0:05.0	Places of peace and not dread.
0:11.0	Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost ones bones
0:23.6	Welcome to stones and bones
0:28.6	Whoa
0:31.6	Oh
0:33.6	Welcome to Stones and Bones.
0:44.4	Hello, you Sputacular people.
0:46.7	Welcome to Stones and Bones.
0:48.9	I'm your host, Diane.
0:50.0	And this is Kelly.
0:51.6	A few years after Mount Auburn Cemetery was established, the city of Bangor in the state of Maine would follow its lead.
0:58.9	Mount Hope Cemetery would become the second rural cemetery established in America.
1:03.8	Bangor was named for the oldest city in Wales and is the Queen City of Maine.
1:08.3	At the time that the cemetery was established, the city was known as the
1:11.7	lumber capital of the world. And while the city was quite successful, its burial grounds were in
1:17.0	bad shape. Many were abandoned and unkempt, and the ones that were still being used were overcrowded.
1:23.2	Bangor's mayor, in 1834, even declared that the cemeteries caused a soul-chilling experience.
1:29.7	This would change as the city decided to try its hand at this new garden cemetery experiment.
1:36.1	The Bangor Horticultural Society was established in 1834.
1:40.5	The society committed themselves to founding a new rural cemetery and they they found the perfect spot near the Pinobscot River.
1:47.2	They purchased 100 acres from a man named Joseph Treat.
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