Old City Cemetery - Sacramento's oldest existing cemetery

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Old City Cemetery - Sacramento's oldest existing cemetery

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Resting
Place of California Pioneers

Adorned with beautiful statues, dramatic markers and
lush gardens,
Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery is an
outdoor museum recording California history from
the Gold Rush Era through today.

Since
it's establishment in 1849, the City Cemetery has become the resting place of
many remarkable Californians, demonstrating the
diversity of California history and culture. 

Visitors will
discover the burial sites of Sacramento mayors and
California governors as well as memorials to
Civil War Veterans, Volunteer Firemen
and the victims of the 1850 Cholera Epidemic.

The
City Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in
Sacramento.  Keeping
with the popular style of the times, it was
designed to resemble a  Victorian
garden. 

Traversed by pathways and grand
avenues, the cemetery provides a park-like setting for
exploring history.

Today, volunteers with the Adopt a Plot
program take over the
gardening of plots - a task once performed by long since departed relatives.

Free guided walking tours of the Sacramento Historic City
Cemetery are led by Old City Cemetery Committee docents. Self-Guided tours are encouraged at all times.

Discover
California history. Discover Sacramento's old City
Cemetery

Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 10:00 am

“What's Blooming in the Cemetery”

Tour Guide:
Fran Clarke

Stroll through our beautiful gardens on this Saturday
morning tour at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery. 
This tour, led by Fran Clarke, Certified Arborist,
Sacramento Tree Foundation, will

survey the perennials, bulbs and shrubs in bloom
in this historic Victorian cemetery.

The tour commences at 10 am from the Cemetery’s main
gate at Broadway and 10th Street. Visitors may park
across the street from the 10th Street Gate and meet at
the cemetery entrance. Held under the auspices of the
City of Sacramento Division of History & Science, this
tour is presented as a public service by the Old City
Cemetery Committee, Inc. For tour information please
call (916) 448-0811. Tours are free, though donations
for the restoration of the cemetery are greatly needed
and appreciated.

Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 10:00 am

“Mausoleums”

Tour Guide: Claudia Richardson

Visit many unique and magnificent family mausoleums on
this Saturday morning tour at the Sacramento Historic
City Cemetery! This tour led by Claudia
Richardson, will feature the architecture and stories of
this beautiful garden cemetery.

The tour commences at 10 am from the Cemetery’s main
gate at Broadway and 10th Street. Visitors may park
across the street from the 10th Street Gate and meet at
the cemetery entranc.
 Held under the auspices of the
City of Sacramento Division of History & Science, this
tour is presented as a public service by the Old City
Cemetery Committee, Inc. For tour information please
call (916) 448-0811. Tours are free, though donations
for the restoration of the cemetery are greatly needed
and appreciated.

Monday, August 13, 2007 - 6:30 - 8:30pm

“Deadheading at Dusk”

Historic Rose Garden

We'll be tidying up the spent flowers on from 6:30 -
8:30 pm.  We will be offering instruction on how to do it,
and serve light refreshments.

Visitors may park
across the street from the 10th Street Gate and meet at
the cemetery entrance. For information, please
call (916) 448-0811.

Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 10:00 am

“The
Real 49er's”
History Tour

Tour Guide: Frances Pendleton

Hear the stories of the men --and a few women-- who came
west in the first year of the Gold Rush and their
subsequent successes and disappointments on this
Saturday morning tour at the Sacramento Historic City
Cemetery.  This tour, led by well known author and
historian, Frances Pendleton, will feature the exciting
lives and deaths of Gold Rush pioneers who's final
resting place is this beautiful garden cemetery.

The tour commences at 10 am from the Cemetery’s main
gate at Broadway and 10th Street. Visitors may park
across the street from the 10th Street Gate and meet at
the cemetery entrance. Held under the auspices of the
City of Sacramento Division of History & Science, this
tour is presented as a public service by the Old City
Cemetery Committee, Inc. For tour information please
call (916) 448-0811. Tours are free, though donations
for the restoration of the cemetery are greatly needed
and appreciated.

 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 7:30 am

“Birding in the Cemetery”

Tour Guide: Maureen Geiger

Discover the many different birds that live in and
migrate through the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery.
This walking tour, led by Maureen Geiger, knowledgeable
Audubon member, is for the beginning birder.

The tour commences at 7:30 am from the Cemetery’s main
gate at Broadway and 10th Street. Visitors may park
across the street from the 10th Street Gate and meet at
the cemetery entrance. Held under the auspices of the
City of Sacramento Division of History & Science, this
tour is presented as a public service by the Old City
Cemetery Committee, Inc. For tour information please
call (916) 448-0811. Tours are free though donations for
the restoration of the cemetery are greatly needed and
appreciated.
 All information and photos by Lynda Walls/Old City Cemetery

 For further info:

• Old City Cemetery
• 1000 Broadway
•  Sacramento, CA 95814 •
  (916) 448-0811
• www.oldcitycemetery.com