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Golden Gate Cemetery
1870 – 1909
Golden Gate Cemetery, also called the City Cemetery, and Potter's Field, was a burial ground with 29,000 remains, active between 1870 and approximately 1909 and was located in San Francisco, California. The site of this former cemetery is now Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum.
Why it's on the map
The burials were done in segregated sections of the graveyard.
The site of this former cemetery is now Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum.
A large number of graves had been transferred from the earlier built Yerba Buena Cemetery to Golden Gate Cemetery with the establishment of the cemetery in 1870; some estimates place the quantity at 3000 remains.
In October 2022, the city designated this the first archeological landmark, and added a new sign to memorize the history as a cemetery.
Source: Wikipedia / Wikidata
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