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San Francisco, California: Former cemetery; location of the Neptune Society Columbarium: Greenlawn Memorial Park (Colma, California) 1933: 1100 El Camino Real Colma, California: In 1933, 26,000 bodies from the Oddfellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved here. San Francisco had previously passed an ordinance to prohibit the sale of cemetery ...
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Mary's Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.
Brisbane City Hall. Brisbane (pron. / ˈ b r ɪ z b eɪ n / BRIZ-bayn) is a small city in San Mateo County, California, located on the lower slopes of the San Bruno Mountain.The city is on the northeastern edge of San Mateo County, located immediately south of the San Francisco city limits on the San Francisco Bay.
Orphanage board and staff members attempted to dissuade authorities from sending orphans to camp without success. [9] [11] Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, "determined that if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must all go to camp," [5] [12] gave the order to begin removing children from orphanages on April 28, 1942. [9]
Incorporated as the San Francisco Orphanage and Farm the name was changed to Sunny Hills Services in 2005. [36] Robert Dollar and his wife were active in the orphanage and he provided funding to purchase land and dedication ceremonies were held on 10 February 1900. He had a school built on the property in 1902 and rebuilt after a fire in 1913.
The construction of the orphanage cost $125,000. [4] As the Ming Quong Home, the building was owned by the Presbyterian Board of Missions (New York City) and functioned as an orphanage for Chinese girls. The building was constructed with the help of Donaldina Cameron to alleviate the overcrowding of young inhabitants in San Francisco's ...
The Russian Children's Welfare Society is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in New York City with branches in Moscow and San Francisco.It was founded in 1926 to help Russian children whose families fled to other countries after the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR. (1972)