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Pioneer Park, also known as Mission Hills Park, is a public park in the Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego, California. Originally established in 1876 as Calvary Cemetery, it served as a Catholic burial ground before being repurposed as a public park in 1968. The bodies remain buried beneath the park.
Prior to the establishment of the Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, there were other cemeteries already in existence as early as 1850. The citizens of the newly founded city became concerned with the "old" cemetery, which was once located between 5th and 7th Avenues and Jackson and Madison Streets, near a newly built train station.
Pioneer and Military Memorial Park, Phoenix, Arizona; California. Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), California; Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries (list) Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California; Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California, Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
Pioneer Park may refer to: United States. Pioneer Park (Fairbanks, Alaska), Alaska; Pioneer Park (San Francisco), California; site of Coit Tower; Pioneer Park (Aspen, Colorado), a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Pioneer Park (Hardee County, Florida), a park in Zolfo Springs; Lincoln, Nebraska; also known as Pioneers Park
The State of Iowa defines "pioneer cemetery" as "a cemetery where twelve or fewer burials have taken place in the past 50 years". [2]The State of Nebraska defines an "abandoned or neglected pioneer cemetery" as having been founded or situated upon land that "was given, granted, donated, sold, or deeded to the founders of the cemetery prior to January 1, 1900", and that "contains the grave or ...
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The park encompasses 15 acres (6.1 ha) and features a reconstruction of Fort Harrod, the first permanent American settlement in the state of Kentucky. The park was founded in November 1934 as Pioneer Memorial State Park, and dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Ruby Laffoon. [3]
San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, earlier known as Morningside Cemetery, is a cemetery in the Sylmar district of Los Angeles. Located on a 3.8-acre (15,000 m 2 ) site at the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Bledsoe Street, the Pioneer Cemetery was thought to be originally a 40-acre or 10-acre (400,000 m 2 ) site.