Lone Mountain | |
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Elevation | 420 ft (128 m)[1] |
Location | |
Location | San Francisco, California |
Coordinates | 37°46′45″N 122°27′07″W / 37.7790963°N 122.4519159°WCoordinates: 37°46′45″N 122°27′07″W / 37.7790963°N 122.4519159°W[1] |
Topo map | USGS San Francisco North |
Lone Mountain is a hill in west-central San Francisco, California and the site of the private University of San Francisco (USF) - Lone Mountain Campus, which in turn was previously the San Francisco Lone Mountain College for Women.
Lone Mountain was once the location of Lone Mountain Cemetery, a complex encompassed Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic, and Odd Fellows Cemeteries.[2]
In the early 20th century, San Francisco voted most of its cemeteries out of existence, ostensibly for reasons of public health;[citation needed] after decades of further dispute workmen eventually began the transfer of Lone Mountain's forty-seven thousand inhabitants, primarily to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the city of Colma, just to the south.[citation needed] In what writer Harold Gilliam has described as "an act of civic vandalism,"[citation needed] thousands of crypts and mausoleums were unearthed, the granite and marble dumped along the Pacific shoreline to reinforce seawalls.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Lone Mountain". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1659001. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
- ^ "Cemeteries". San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/c/cemeteries.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ^ "In The Shadow of Lone Mountain". San Francisco History. SFgenealogy. http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgsto31.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
External links
- "Photo from Tank Hill towards North showing USF". Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/schuberts/3786399407. Retrieved 2009-08-20.