San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries
eBook - ePub

San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries

A Buried History

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries

A Buried History

About this book

Digging into a forgotten past - and the dead left behind.
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150, 000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the city's most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco.
Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword, by Roberto Lovato
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Creek of Sorrows: Mission Dolores Cemetery
  10. 2. Guardians of the Dead: San Francisco’s Cypress Trees
  11. 3. “Impromptu Burials”: San Francisco’s Early Unofficial Cemeteries
  12. 4. The Heart of the City: Yerba Buena and Green Oak Cemeteries
  13. 5. Home of Peace: San Francisco’s First Jewish Cemeteries
  14. 6. The Rural Cemetery Movement Arrives: Lone Mountain and Laurel Hill Cemeteries
  15. 7. The “Big Six”: Lone Mountain’s Cemetery Subdivisions
  16. 8. Left Behind: City Cemetery
  17. 9. Scattered Graves
  18. 10. A Land Apart: Cemeteries of the Presidio
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. About the Author