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On December 12, 1884, the War Department designated 9 acres (3.6 ha), including the site of the old post cemetery, as San Francisco National Cemetery. It was the first national cemetery established on the West Coast and marks the growth and development of a system of national cemeteries extending beyond the battlefields of the Civil War.
Lone Mountain Cemetery complex in 1869 map of San Francisco. Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States [2] [3] on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, and Presidio Avenue. [4]
Potrero Hill is located on the eastern side of the city, east of the Mission District and south of SOMA (South of Market) and Showplace Square. [6] It is bordered by 16th Street to the north, Potrero Avenue and U.S. Route 101 (below 20th Street) to the west and Cesar Chavez Street to the south.
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
An M Ocean View train on Broad Street. Oceanview, also referred to as "Lakeview" by some natives of the community, has a rich history. [5] Oceanview was originally an Italian-Irish-German neighborhood in the mid- to late nineteenth century; the location acted as a station for train service between San Francisco and San Jose, owned by San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, bought by Southern ...
Mission Street & 5th Street: Balboa Park Station, San Francisco State University: Low ridership. [2] South of Market, Mission District, Glen Park, Balboa Park: 1945: 2009 [13] 27 Noe [14] 29 Visitacion Mansell & Visitacion: Gillette & Lathrop: Replaced by 56 Rutland. [15] Visitacion Valley: 1948: 1980 32 Embarcadero Hyde & Jefferson Streets ...
In 1902 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prohibited further burials within the city. By late 1910, cremation was also prohibited. [3] The Odd Fellows, forced to abandon their cemetery, established Green Lawn Cemetery in Colma. Transfer of bodies began in 1929 and many families also chose to remove their urns from the Columbarium.
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