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Maine
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Below are links to the cemeteries I have photographed so far in Maine. More will be added soon. If you have a cemetery you would like to see included, contact me.

Berwick:
Blackberry Hill Rd. Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery 1877
Lord's Cemetery 1763
Plaisted Grave 1675
Wallingford Family Cemetery ca. 1850

Biddeford:
Woodlawn Cemetery

Eliot:
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Samuel Hill Burying Ground
Shapleigh Family Cemetery
Shapleigh Family Cemetery 2
Shapleigh-Remick Family Cemetery

Kennebunk:
First Parish Cemetery
Hope Cemetery

Kittery:
Chauncy Family Cemetery ca. 1789
Dennett Family Cemetery ca. 1807
First Congregational Church 1714
Lewis Family Cemetery ca. 1832
Wilson Family Cemetery ca. 1821

North Berwick:
Friends Quaker Cemetery
Hillside Cemetery

Ogunquit:
Locust Grove Cemetery 1826

South Berwick:
Free Will Baptist Church
Goodwin Family Cemetery ca. 1875
Old Fields Burying Ground
Portland Street Cemetery

York:
First Parish Church Cemetery 1652
Libby Family Cemetery ca. 1857
Moody Family Cemetery ca. 1753
Old Burying Yard
Paul/Shapleigh Family Cemetery ca. 1812
South Side Cemetery ca. 1734

 

     


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