Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Bouleva
Example of a re-used gravestone, found in Buena Vista Park. In 2017 a 155-year-old gravestone from Laurel Hill was found in the basement of a San Francisco home.
Phineas Gage was buried twice in Lone Mountain Cemetery
View from Calvary Cemetery (1866) and Broderick's Monument in the background
Aerial view of Calvary Cemetery in 1938
Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,507 at the 2020 census. The town w
Lone Mountain Cemetery
…complex began around the beginning of the twentieth century, and by 1941 all remains within it had been moved elsewhere, mostly to a new necropolis in Colma, California, though some were never accounted for. The land from Laurel Hill Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery was eventually used to create housing and shopping centers…
A panoramic view of Colma, California, looking down from San Bruno Mountain
Aerial view of Colma, from the south; San Francisco is visible in the distance at upper right and I-280 runs north in the lower left corner. The prominent rectangular green space in the foreground is the western campus of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, acquired in the early 1900s.
Aerial view of Colma, facing north; 280 Metro Center is in the lower center, adjacent to Woodlawn (to the north) and Greenlawn (to the east)