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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]
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
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]
On December 12, 1884, the War Department designated 9 acres (3.6 ha), including the site of the old post cemetery, as San Francisco National Cemetery. It was the first national cemetery established on the West Coast and marks the growth and development of a system of national cemeteries extending beyond the battlefields of the Civil War.
[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]
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In 1902 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prohibited further burials within the city. By late 1910, cremation was also prohibited. [3] The Odd Fellows, forced to abandon their cemetery, established Green Lawn Cemetery in Colma. Transfer of bodies began in 1929 and many families also chose to remove their urns from the Columbarium.