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All Souls Cemetery (Long Beach, California) [9] Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton. Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles. Artesia Cemetery, Cerritos. Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Mausoleum, Downtown Los Angeles. Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles.
Golden Gate is one of a large number of U.S. Army -planned cemeteries started in the 1930s and completed during the 1940s. They were designed specifically to provide abundant burial opportunities in locations around the nation in cities with very large veteran populations. As of 2005, the cemetery held 137,435 interments.
San Francisco National Cemetery. San Francisco National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with Golden Gate National Cemetery, a few miles south of the city. About 1937, San Francisco residents voted to no longer build ...
For the 1986 TV series, see Resting Place. For the 1951 film, see No Resting Place. Not to be confused with Rest area. A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
Woodlawn Memorial Park. Woodlawn Memorial Park, is a historic cemetery in Compton, California, United States. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles County. [1] The cemetery has had a history of care issues in the last 20 years, and since 2020 Woodlawn Memorial Park is only open for visitation.
Verdugo Hills Cemetery landslide, 1978. On February 10, 1978, after days of torrential rains, a massive landslide occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains foothills above Tujunga. The result was the unearthing of a large section of the cemetery and corpses being strewn throughout the area. The rain had been pouring into holes made by gophers and ...
1,400 acres (570 ha) [1] Website. www.rosehills.com. Find a Grave. Rose Hills Memorial Park. Rose Hills Memorial Park is a cemetery and mortuary located in Whittier, California. It is owned and operated by Service Corporation International (formerly Loewen Group) and is the largest cemetery in North America. [2]
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]