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Permanent Californians: an illustrated guide to the cemeteries of California. Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green. ISBN 978-0930031213. OCLC 19322965. Brooks, Patricia; Brooks, Jonathan (2006). Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 978-0762741014. OCLC 70284362.
Spadra Cemetery is a historic 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) cemetery in Pomona, California.Containing 212 graves, it is protected by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley (HSPV), which offers occasional tours, the only time the site is available to the public, as it is locked behind a large gate.
San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 32053 West McCabe Road, Santa Nella, in Merced County, California. This cemetery has space available to accommodate casketed and cremated remains over 322 acres (130 ha) of land. The number of interments through fiscal year 2008 is 30,054. [2]
Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. Evergreen has several prominent individuals of historical Southern California on its grounds. Many pioneers are interred here, names such as Bixby, Coulter, Hollenbeck, Lankershim, Van Nuys, and Workman. [2]
Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum is a historic cemetery in Altadena, California, United States.Established in 1882, it contains over 70,000 burials in its approximately 60 acres (24 ha), [1] including Pasadena's pioneering families and California statesmen and women.
Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 978-0762741014. OCLC 70284362. Culbertson, Judi; Randall, Tom (1989). "13: San Diego Cemeteries". Permanent Californians: an illustrated guide to the cemeteries of California. Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green. pp. 209–217
In the early 1880s, Moses J. Church donated 80 acres of land along Belmont Avenue for the establishment of cemeteries. [2] [3] He named the combined plot Mountain View Cemetery but subdivided it and allocated it to a number of groups, such as Catholic, Seventh-Day Adventist, Episcopal, Christian, Masonic, Odd Fellows and many others. [3]
Greenlawn Memorial Park, also known as the Odd Fellows Cemetery, is a private cemetery located at 1100 El Camino Real in Colma, California, United States. It was established in 1904. [ 1 ] In 1933, after ongoing city litigation the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco, part of the Lone Mountain Cemetery complex, reinterred some 26,000 graves ...