Cemeteries in Down East Maine
Ours is a place of many ancient cemeteries, many still in use, but the majority are closed up, hidden in the forests, overgrown, filled with the ancestors of today's locals. I like visiting the older cemeteries especially, and documenting the early graves before they disappear to the elements. Here are a few highlights. Eventually this will turn into a large scale project!
I love cemeteries and have taken photos in other parts of New England as well. Click here if you want to see those....
I love cemeteries and have taken photos in other parts of New England as well. Click here if you want to see those....
A small seaside cemetery in old Eden, Bar Harbor, Maine - behind the site of the first town house built there.
A seacaptain's grave.
Headstones and footstones, beds made in the earth. Eden, Bar Harbor.
Eden.
Old soldiers resting by the trees. Eden.
Hillside Cemetery, Eastport.
Hillside, Eastport.
From Eastport's heyday.
The old iron gate, Hillside, Eastport.
It takes up a big area, on a little island.
The bodies still kept there while waiting for a thaw.
