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California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Certificate of Authority – Cemetery, License Number 506 Archived February 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Funeral Establishment License Number 951 Archived June 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westwood Memorial Park
The company was founded by a group of San Francisco businessmen in 1906. Hubert Eaton assumed management control in 1917 and is credited with being Forest Lawn's "founder" because of his origination of the "memorial-park" plan.
According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, [3] but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in The Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father, William H. Mettler, and his brother (unnamed) in the "late 1940s" in the Wheeler Ridge area, which settlement "later became known as Mettler Station."
Newcastle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California. [2] Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Newcastle is located 8 miles (12.9 km) northeast of Rocklin [4] and 31 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Angelus Funeral Home was a funeral home at 1010 E Jefferson Blvd in South Los Angeles, California that has been repurposed as an affordable housing complex. [4] The building was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2006 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Midway City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) that forms part of the county land controlled by Orange County, California. [3] The only area in Orange County that incorporates its chamber of commerce and homeowners association to act in concert like a city council, [4] the area mostly is surrounded by Westminster with Huntington Beach bordering it on the southwest.
In 1841, California's first water-powered sawmill was built at the junction of Bean Creek and Zayante Creek by Peter Lassen, Isaac Graham, J. Majors, and F. Hoeger.. Mount Hermon, known as "Tuxedo Junction" prior to 1906, was a stop on the South Coast Pacific Railroad from Alameda to Santa Cruz. [4]
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial province of Alta California by three priests—Father Narciso Durán from Mission San José, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Asís, Father Luis Gíl y Taboada from La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles—on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.