Welcome to Penobscot County, Maine History and Genealogy Pine Grove Cemetery History City Affairs, In Board of Aldermen, June 6, 1853 Order, That the sum of one thousand dollars be appropriated and placed to the credit of Pine Grove Cemetery fund, for the purpose of suitably preparing the ground by removing stones and stumps, building fences, making roads, in lotting &c said ground. And the mayor is authorized to draw his order upon the Treasury from said fund from time to time, upon the certificate of the committee. ( June 8, 1853, Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor Maine, Contributed by S. Williams) Mayors Address ....The ruinous and decayed state of the fence around a part of the ground at Mount Hope, appropriated for purposes of a public cemetery require that a new one should be built to protect it from the encroachments and depredations of the cattle and other animals that are kept in the adjoining premises, and by reference to the Report of the Cemetery Board, you will also learn that the Pine Grove Cemetery is in some what similar condition. I would therefore join them in recommending that an appropriation be made for fencing, improving and ornamenting the last resting places where sleep all that is mortal of those who have gone down to the grave before us. (March 17, 1857 Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor Maine, Contributed by S. Williams) HOME DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Submitters retain all copyrights ©2008 Genealogy Trails