Faculty-Alumni House 745 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA94122 United States
10:30 a.m.-noon in person* and online via Zoom
Lincoln Park Golf Course in San Francisco was once City Cemetery, a windblown assemblage of fraternal and ethnic burial plots as well as the city’s potter’s field where indigents were interred. Established after the Civil War, the cemetery’s location in the “Great Sand Waste” made it a desolate site.
Forty years later, the cemetery was converted to a municipal golf course, and its previous residents were nearly forgotten — or were they? This illustrated talk from John A. Martini covers the history and demise of City Cemetery, the pioneer San Franciscans buried there, and recent archeological discoveries in the area.
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