Resting places for the dead in San Francisco turned out to be not that restful. From the city’s beginning, elected officials struggled with problems caused by cemeteries in the wrong places. The first ...
San Francisco has no active cemeteries today — but we used to. The city was once home to two dozen for humans, plus one for pets. In the early 1900s, all of the human bodies were exhumed by hand and ...
The remains of 97 Gold Rush pioneers that lay hidden in the earth for well over a century as the city of San Francisco built over them -- twice -- at long last are being sent to their final resting ...
Photograph of Lone Mountain Cemetery, taken in the late 19th century. Source: Isaiah West Taber from Western Neighborhoods Project. Every day, San Franciscans rise to roam the earth. They commute, ...
THEY WERE 99 San Francisco pioneers who presumably were mourned by those who knew them well when they were buried more than a century ago at the city’s first public cemetery. Those who knew nothing of ...
Today, there are only two cemeteries in San Francisco, at Mission Dolores and the Presidio. But until World War II, tens of thousands of bodies were interred in numerous cemeteries and informal burial ...
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