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Oct 6, 2016 · Today, Los Angeles’s first cemetery is a fenced-in rectangle of lumpy mounds, with only a small placard giving visitors any indication of what lies beneath. In November 1844, a new Catholic...
- A Map Guide to Los Angeles's Fascinating Oldest Cemetery
LA's oldest *nondenominational cemetery, founded in 1877,...
- A Map Guide to Los Angeles's Fascinating Oldest Cemetery
- San Gabriel Campo Santo. The first El Pueblo de Los Angeles settler to die was Maria Josefa Rosas on May 11, 1784. She was only eight, the youngest of the six children of Josef (or José) Rosas and Maria Manuela Hernandez.
- Los Angeles Campo Santo. The rituals of Catholic life typically require a church, but the Spanish settlers were slow to find the money and expertise to build one.
- Old Calvary Cemetery. The Catholic graveyard that replaced the Campo Santo was a mile north of the plaza at the mouth of an arroyo that would one day be called Chavez Ravine.
- Los Angeles City Cemetery. Non-Catholics lacked a burial place in the newly American Los Angeles of 1850. Only in 1853 did a non-sectarian graveyard open on the hill that overlooked the plaza and its church.
May 23, 2014 · LA's oldest *nondenominational cemetery, founded in 1877, didn't discriminate against people of color when other cemeteries did. (Though sometimes it wouldn't bury them inside the cemetery or...
Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. Evergreen has several prominent individuals of historical Southern California on its grounds. Many pioneers are interred here, names such as Bixby, Coulter, Hollenbeck, Lankershim, Van Nuys, and Workman. [2]
Established in 1877, Evergreen Cemetery is the oldest nondenominational cemetery in Los Angeles, with numerous prominent interments on its grounds. Prior to the cemetery's completion, the City requested the allocation of five acres for the unclaimed bodies.
Oct 20, 2013 · 1186. Established in 1877, Evergreen Memorial Park and Crematory is Los Angeles’ oldest cemetery. Tucked away in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East L.A., this 67-acre park is the final...
May 5, 2011 · The first image is from the 1880 Thompson and West history of Los Angeles County; the rest are from the 1901 pamphlet on Evergreen Cemetery. Some sources: “Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Cemetery Association, 1901, courtesy of Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum.
