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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]
The San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home is a columbarium owned and operated by Dignity Memorial, located at One Loraine Court, near Stanyan and Anza Streets, just north of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. [2] Built in 1898 by architect Bernard J.S. Cahill, [2] the copper-domed Columbarium is an example of neoclassical ...
Lone Mountain is a neighborhood and a historic hill in west-central San Francisco, California. It is the present site of the northern half of the University of San Francisco's main campus. It was once the location of the Lone Mountain Cemetery, a complex encompassing the Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemeteries. [3]
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Western terminus of the Lincoln Highway-San Francisco. The land on which Lincoln Park stands was the city-owned Golden Gate Cemetery, established in 1868. [1] [2] It held about 10,000 remains and included a Chinese burial ground and a potter's field. [1] In 1902, golf enthusiasts laid out a three-hole course on part of the land. In 1909, the ...
Congregation Beth Israel had consecrated a portion of City Cemetery in San Francisco as Sholom or Salem Cemetery on December 2, 1877. [1] [2]: 77 City Cemetery was mainly used to bury immigrants and the indigent, [3] with the vast majority of those interred being Chinese immigrants to California; the site is now occupied by the golf course in Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum. [4]
Anza Vista is named after Juan Bautista de Anza.. It sits atop the former location of the San Francisco Calvary Cemetery. Graves in this cemetery, along with all graves in San Francisco, were moved in the 1930s and 1940s to Colma after burials in San Francisco were banned in 1902 at all but two cemeteries to increase available real estate.