California's Gold S10E8 San Francisco Cemeteries
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- San Francisco is a city of many distinctions, but few are as intriguing as the history of its cemeteries.
As the 19th century came to a close in San Francisco, a movement some say a real estate scheme began to remove all buried remains from within the city. After many ordinances, acts and decrees, cemeteries were carefully relocated to nearby towns, while headstones were recycled as breakwaters and paving material. Only three cemeteries and their inhabitants were left within the boundaries of San Francisco.
Join Huell as he discovers the sacred grounds that still exist today at San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) and the San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio. He also enters the neoclassical San Francisco Columbarium where the ash remains of many notable San Francisco family members rest within the beauty of an architectural gem.
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People are hanged, not hung. Only items one puts on a wall (paintings, mirrors etc.) are hung.
There are at least 700 known bodies found under and around the Palace of Legion of Honor- that whole area including the park around it use to be Potters Cemetery where the poor buried their loved ones. When they did the seismic upgrading and had to dig pits around building, it was a scene out of a horror movie- the amount of skeletal remains- many of the night security guards quit because it was way to spooky to work the late shift around open graves. All covered up and no one really knows about it. Back when they were building the park area, bulldozers would be pushing up human bones. Most of the coffins and caskets were of very poor grade so all that is left are human remains in the earth. If you go to the park, the only thing left above ground is a Chinese temple - but what you don't see is the remains of early San Franciscians whose remains are left there.
Great video! Enjoyed it.