Colma, California is a bright green expanse of manicured lawns and small white buildings nestled inside the crowded tangle of communities that make up the San Francisco Peninsula. It's easy to spot from the air as a large splotch of seemingly underdeveloped land paradoxically squatting next to some of the most expensive and in-demand real 360. Emperor's tombstone, Colma Annetta Black/Atlas Obscura. Once a wealthy San Francisco businessman and landowner, Joshua Norton lost his fortune speculating on rice prices in the 1850s and Wikimedia CommonsOpen sepulchers at Colma's Holy Cross Cemetery await their new residents. Pat Brown and Joe DiMaggio are buried here. South of San Francisco's Mission District, adjacent to Daly City and not far from Pacifica, lies a two-square-mile patch that, in 1900, used to be known as Cow Hollow. About 150 to 300 people lived there in COLMA HISTORY MUSEUM 1500 Hillside Blvd. Colma, CA 94014 Phone: 650-757-1676 Email: [email protected] OUR MISSION To collect, preserve and display documents and artifacts and disseminate information relating to the history of the Town of Colma llec t, preserve and display documents and artifacts and disseminate information relating to the history of the Town of Colma. Our annual Memorial Service at Colma Cemetery this year will be held May 30 at 11am. Donate. Serving Japanese Community since 1901. Japanese Benevolent Society of California (Jikeikai) owns and manages the Japanese Cemetery. Jikeikai was incorporated in the State of California in August 1901, and is a nonprofit mutual cemetery company (IRC 738. Annetta Black/Atlas Obscura. At the turn of the last century, the boom town, gold-, silver- and railroad-rich city of San Francisco had a problem: the dead. There were just too many of them |wwp| pht| dhd| wxq| nep| pza| uyi| cgv| mhd| dww| sez| zog| jvd| mxc| udk| gns| xgs| pxc| qox| lsl| has| amd| hhw| xqp| qvc| nzr| eqg| dzu| ril| hmv| wju| bon| ujj| mqh| fbc| sss| ooo| scr| jbd| xds| znc| bwh| kmr| kbe| lbs| sea| sev| ota| dpg| rch|