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The Chung Wah Cemetery, also known as China Mission-Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery, in Folsom, California is a cemetery from 1906. The city of Folsom had a thriving Chinese community of about 3,000 that was drawn by the gold mining in the area. The size and shape of the cemetery suggests that it was not planned well.
The founders of Evergreen Cemetery gave the city a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) parcel of the proposed cemetery in 1877 for use as a potter's field in return for a zoning variance to allow the cemetery. [4] The Chinese community was allowed to utilize a corner of the city's potter's field and erected a shrine in September 1888. [5]
The layout of the mausoleum is modeled on the layout of Xianyang, the capital of the Qin dynasty, which was divided into inner and outer cities. The circumference of the inner city is 2.5 km (1.6 mi) and the outer is 6.3 km (3.9 mi). The tomb is located in the southwest of the inner city and faces east.
This list of cemeteries in California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
13 km due north of Beijing, China Ming tombs: Sun Yat-sen: Chinese revolutionary, founder of the Kuomintang, and 1st President of the Republic of China: At the foot of the second peak of the Purple Mountain, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum: Mao Zedong: Communist leader of China from 1943 to 1976 Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Experts believe the tomb was owned by a man who died in 736 AD at age 63, during the middle of the Tang dynasty, which ran from 618 to 907 AD.
The only place that allowed burial of Chinese persons was the city's potter's field. Unlike white indigents, who were buried at no charge, the Chinese had to pay US$10 (HK$78) to be interred. [9] [8] The Chinese community was allowed to utilize a corner of the potter's field and soon after, in September 1888, erected a shrine.
China Alley served the second largest population of Chinese in the U.S., behind San Francisco. The temple itself was argued in its NRHP nomination to be valuable "as an example of typical late 19th century indigenous construction, with oriental overtones.... in keeping with the theme of the original Hanford Chinese settlement and with the ...