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Fountain at Valhalla Memorial Park. The cemetery was taken over by the state of California. It is unclear how long the state owned the 63-acre (250,000 m 2) cemetery, but Pierce Brothers bought it in 1950 and, within two years, closed the rotunda to vehicle traffic and moved the entry to the cemetery from Valhalla Drive in Burbank to Victory and Cahuenga boulevards in North Hollywood.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery is a full-service cemetery, funeral home, crematory, and cultural events center which regularly hosts community events such as live music and summer movie screenings. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California and is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood.
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery , Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan -designed Wainwright Tomb , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Hollywood Cemetery: Hollywood Cemetery. May 14, 1999 : 6000 Santa Monica Blvd Hollywood ... 117-131 East 5th St., 455 South Los Angeles St.
St. Louis Cemetery in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood serves as the final resting place for nearly 50,000 Catholics spread across 43 acres dotted with ornate sculptures and monoliths.
Marie Julia Cérre Soulard (1775–1845) landowner who donated land for the Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis; Raymond Tucker (1896–1970), mayor of St. Louis (1953–1965) John Wesley Turner (1833–1899), Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War; John Vitale (1909–1982), Cosa Nostra boss in St. Louis
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue. [1] The cemetery was established as Sunset Cemetery in 1905, but had been used for burials since the 1880s.
When conditions led to the founding of a new, even bigger cemetery on the other side of the Los Angeles River in 1896—in East Los Angeles—the property of the historic cemetery was put to other uses. At the time, many Italians began moving into the north side of Los Angeles, where they founded a new church on north Spring Street.