Tours & Activities
Tours and
Activities weather permitting; if in doubt call 207.942.1900
2012 Tour Dates
 Mount Hope Cemetery Tours
Mount Hope Cemetery, consecrated in 1836, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. Like Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831), near Boston, Mount Hope was designed to meet the mid-19th century city dweller's desire for access to a romanticized rural landscape. Ponds, bowers, grottos and a variety of plantings, along with tombs and monuments, typify a landscape consciously designed for the living, as well as the dead. Many of Maine's statesmen, military and civic leaders are entombed in style in Mount Hope Cemetery, which is also the final resting place of some of the infamous characters whose colorful legends still survive.
Meet: Cemetery Superintendent's Office, 1048 State Street
Fee: $7 non-members, Free to BMHC members, Children under 12 free
Dates & Times:
Friday
July 6 at 5PM Saturday July 21 at 10AM
Friday
August 3 at 5PM
Saturday August 18 at 10AM
Friday
September 7 at 5PM
Saturday September 22 at 10AM
Friday
October 5 at 5PM
Devil's Half Acre Tour
Despite Maine's 1851 Prohibitory Law, saloons and drinking establishments thrived in Bangor.
Many were located along lower Broad Street and the riverfront area, along with brothels and overcrowded tenements.
This area of vice and violence came to be known as the Devil's Half-acre.
On this short walking tour we will explore the
wicked
side
.
We will share the stories of Madams, prostitutes, wild Irishmen, lumberman, sailors and the beleaguered police and reformers that tried to clean up the town.
Tour includes adult content
Meet: Near the Harbor Master's Office on the Bangor Waterfront
Fee: $7 non-members, Free to BMHC members
Dates & Times:
Tuesday July 10
at 7PM
Tuesday July 24
at 7PM
Tuesday August 7
at 7PM
Tuesday August 21
at 7PM
Tuesday October 11
at 7PM
Tuesday October 25
at 7PM
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