An animal pound was once located at the southeast corner of the cemetery on South Street. According to Hugh McLellan’s “History of Gorham, Maine,” Gorham voters approved $150 on April 1, 1805, for construction of the pound, built of 2-foot-thick stonewalls. The pound was 30-by-35 feet. Owners of impounded stray animals paid a fine to the town’s pound keeper before recovering animals. The pound was dismantled 35 years later and the site is now part of Phinney Park, shown in the foreground.

Staff photo by Robert Lowell

Gorham Remembered

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