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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]
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]
Congregation Beth Israel had consecrated a portion of City Cemetery in San Francisco as Sholom or Salem Cemetery on December 2, 1877. [1] [2]: 77 City Cemetery was mainly used to bury immigrants and the indigent, [3] with the vast majority of those interred being Chinese immigrants to California; the site is now occupied by the golf course in Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum. [4]
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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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.
Pages in category "Burials at San Francisco National Cemetery" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[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]