Oct 24, 2023
San Francisco's cemetery history is rich, to say the least. It goes something like this:
- Mission Dolores cemetery
- Yerba Buena cemetery
- San Francisco National Cemetery (in the Presidio)
- City Cemetery/Golden Gate Cemetery
- The Big 4—Calvary, Odd Fellows (including the Columbarium), Masonic, Laurel Hill
In Part 1 of the four-part series
we're doing on San Francisco Cemeteries, we'll
meet Courtney Minick of Here
Lies a Story. Courtney will serve as our guide through this
history.
Along the way, we'll meet folks who
work with the cemeteries that are left over here in The City—the
one at Mission Dolores and San Francisco National Cemetery. We'll
take walking tours of the Mission and the pet cemetery in the
Presidio.
Interestingly, as we were putting
these episodes together, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use
Committee voted unanimously in favor of granting
City Cemetery landmark status. Now the matter goes before the
full board sometime this month. The timing!
Look for the remaining episodes in
this series over the next several weeks.