Old Yorba Linda Cemetery in Orange County, CA
Yorba Cemetery is a one-acre burial ground inside Woodgate Park, on the line between Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills. Bernardo Yorba set it aside in his 1858 will for family[…]
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Category: Southwest Haunted Cemeteries
Hollywood Forever Cemetery (formerly Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery), Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery occupies roughly 60–100 acres (historical figures vary) at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, immediately adjacent to Paramount Studios. It was founded in 1899 as Hollywood Memorial[…]
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El Campo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego
El Campo Santo, “the holy field,” is a small walled cemetery on San Diego Avenue in Old Town. The plot inside the adobe wall is only part of what was[…]
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Old City Cemetery, Sacramento,CA
The grounds were laid out as a Victorian garden cemetery, meant to be walked like a park. Fraternal sections followed: Masons in 1859, Odd Fellows in 1861, a volunteer firemen’s[…]
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Pioneer Cemetery (also known as Sutter’s Mill Cemetery, Coloma Protestant Cemetery, and Vineyard House Cemetery), Coloma, El Dorado County, California
Pioneer Cemetery sits on Cold Springs Road in Coloma, inside the boundaries of Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, near the site of James Marshall’s 1848 gold discovery at Sutter’s[…]
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Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park (formerly Los Angeles Pet Cemetery), Calabasas, California
Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park is a 10-acre pet cemetery at 5068 N. Old Scandia Lane in Calabasas, in the San Fernando Valley just outside Los Angeles city limits. It[…]
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Dawson Cemetery, near Dawson (Colfax County), approximately 17 miles northeast of Cimarron, New Mexico
Dawson Cemetery is the principal surviving remnant of the former company coal-mining town of Dawson in Colfax County, New Mexico. The town was established around 1901 by the Phelps Dodge[…]
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Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary (Westwood Memorial Cemetery), Los Angeles (Westwood), California
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a compact private cemetery and mortuary at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, adjacent to the UCLA[…]
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