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Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest secular cemetery in California. [ 1 ] Oak Hill is the northernmost hill in the San Juan Bautista Hills of South San Jose .
Oak Hill is a 170-acre (0.69 km 2) estate Greek revival mansion.Oak Hill was an original Victorian-style farmhouse that was built in 1847. During the American Civil War and the capture of Rome during The Atlanta Campaign, the estate was used by the Union soldiers as a place to stay. [1]
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He died on October 20, 1912, in San Jose, [1] and was buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park cemetery. The Lenzen Street name in San Jose, California is the location of his former home, and Theodore Lenzen Park on Lenzen Street are both named in his honor. [7]
[citation needed] A portion of these donated lands became a public park, named Washington Square, which would in 1871, become the campus for the California State Normal School (now San Jose State University). [7] In 1856, gold was discovered in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains, and Reed again set out to do some prospecting.
Oak Hill Memorial Park is located across Monterey Road from the fairgrounds. The fairgrounds site includes 167,000 square feet (15,500 m 2 ) of indoor and covered space, 20 acres (8.1 ha) of lawn and paved outdoor space, and 40 acres (16 ha) of surface parking. [ 3 ]
Headstones for the victims of the Mcglincy Massacre at Oak Hill Memorial Park. The McGlincy house remained until the 1960s when it was torn down by the owner, Steve Veitenheimer, who owned the last parcel of McGlincy's orchard. The house was approximately where the end of Veitenheimer Lane is today. [1]