Tours generally include visits to the family plot of Edwin Bryant Crocker, a prolific Supreme Court justice who handed down 237 opinions in just seven months and whose family is best known for building the Crocker Art Museum. Other key figures buried in the cemetery include Sacramento founder John Sutter Jr., three governors, the city's first mayor and William Hamilton, the son of President Alexander Hamilton. He died once, was exhumed twice and buried three different times. The younger Hamilton's remains both times were moved to more prestigious locations in the graveyard. However, his is not the cemetery's most pretentious monument.
Free parking is available just inside the cemetery gates.
Free tours are offered periodically throughout the year on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Private tours also may be scheduled. Special events and theme tours may require reservations and a donation. Call for dates and times. That distinction falls to the family vault of Mark Hopkins, treasurer of the Big Four, the group that brought the railroad to Sacramento.