page_title: Lone Mountain (California)
section_title: Cemetery
hierarchical_section_title: Lone Mountain (California) / Cemetery
caption_attribution_description: English: Lone Mountain (California) Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches) Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba Year: 1883 (1880s) Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928 Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, Harper &amp; brothers Contributing Library: Brown University Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Lone Mountain is a historic hill in west-central San Francisco, California and the site of the private University of San Francisco – Lone Mountain Campus, which in turn was previously the San Francisco Lone Mountain College for Women. It was once the location of Lone Mountain Cemetery, a complex encompassing the Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic, and Odd Fellows Cemeteries.
  Lone Mountain is one of California's historic hills. The hill is near to the former location of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Masonic Cemetery, and Greek Orthodox Cemetery. The graves in these cemeteries, along with most graves in San Francisco, were moved to Colma by the 1940s. Lone Mountain is also home to the Angelo J. Rossi Playground and Rossi Pool at Arguello Boulevard and Anza Street.
  Lone Mountain is also known as "University Terrace" because of the terraces that connect the two USF campuses.
context_section_description: The Lone Mountain Cemetery was opened on May 30, 1854.
  In 1867, the cemetery was renamed Laurel Hill Cemetery, after the Laurel Hill garden cemetery in Philadelphia.
  In the early 20th century, San Francisco voted most of its cemeteries out of existence, ostensibly for public health reasons; after decades of further dispute the transfer of Lone Mountain's forty-seven thousand inhabitants began, primarily to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the city of Colma, immediately south of San Francisco. In what writer Harold Gilliam described as "an act of civic vandalism," thousands of crypts and mausoleums were unearthed, the granite and marble dumped along the Pacific shoreline to reinforce seawalls.
  The Spanish name for Lone Mountain was El Divisadero, from the Spanish divisadero, which means a point from which one can look far.
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