El Campo Santo Cemetery - San Diego, California
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N 32° 45.088 W 117° 11.597
11S E 481893 N 3623751
This old cemetery in San Diego's Old Town has the gravesites of 477 notables and unknowns..and is a California State Landmark.
Several of the graves have been relocated and others are now under the street.
Waymark Code: WMNTN0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/01/2015
Views: 5
El Campo Santo= The Holy Field in English. The California Historical Landmark marker provides the following information about the site:
"EL CAMPO SANTO (THE HOLY FIELD)
EL CAMPO SANTO ONCE INCLUDED THE ADOBE CHAPEL ON CONDE STREET, IN
WHICH WAS BURIED JOSE ANTONIO AGUIRRE AND WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE
HELD FOR MARIA VICTORIA DOMINGUEZ ESTUDILLO, CAVE JOHNSON COUTS, AND
MANY DISTINGUISHED EARLY SAN DIEGANS BETWEEN 1849 AND 1897, 477 PERSONS
WERE BURIED IN THESE GROUNDS, ANTONIO GARRA WAS THE MOST EMINENT OF
MANY NATIVE AMERICANS INTERRED HERE. A NUMBER OF GRAVES WERE RELOCATED
AFTER 1874. A STREET RAILWAY BISECTED THE CEMETERY IN 1894. THE WALL AROUND
THIS PORTION WAS BUILT IN 1933. RESTORATION WAS CONTINUED UNTIL THE PRESENT.
CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL LANDMARK NO. 68
FIRST REGISTERED DECEMBER 6, 1932 PLAQUE PLACED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE SAN DIEGO CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AND SQUIBOB CHAPTER E CLAMPUS VITUS
AUGUST 6 1994"
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