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At the time, it was the largest cemetery in California. [2] The first interments were conducted in July 1896. [3] Drawings of Chapel and Receiving Vaults (top) and Main entrance (bottom), published in 1896 [3] A branch line of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was completed for Mount Olivet in 1898. [2]
San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home, San Francisco; San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco; San Francisco Marine Hospital, was a former psychiatric hospital (operated from 1875 to 1912) with an adjacent cemetery, some of the graves are still visible as of 2006. [18] [19] West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II
Noble was a Civil War veteran who moved to California in 1865 and was a member of the San Francisco Stock Exchange prior to founding Cypress Lawn. [2]: 15 On March 9, 1892, Noble was granted a permit to establish a non-sectarian cemetery [3] and plans for Cypress Lawn were made public as work had begun on a mortuary chapel and receiving vault. [4]
[5]: 97 [7] Porporato's initial plans for a mortuary chapel were accepted in 1902 [8] and shown in 1903. [9] In 1909, San Francisco announced it was planning to convert Golden Gate (City) Cemetery into a park; [10] a decade later, in 1919, John McLaren began preparing to move the remains from the old Italian Cemetery. [11]
Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Hubert Eaton and C.B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over its management in 1917.
Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park and Funeral Home is a 61-acre (25 ha) cemetery, mausoleum, crematorium, columbarium and funeral home complex in Hayward, California. The site was first established as a seven-acre cemetery in 1872. One of the memorial park's three mausoleums is circular in design, the only such one in California. [1]
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