Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery located at 3751 Market Street, San Diego, California, and gives its name to the Mount Hope neighborhood. The graveyard is adjacent to Greenwood Memorial Park.
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History
Founded in 1869, in the suburb of New Town, Mount Hope now covers approximately 115 acres (0.47 km 2 ). The cemetery design is an example of a Rural cemetery, with architecture, art, and landscape. The city of San Diego manages and maintains the entire cemetery, providing timeless care to all the burial sites. The hills and land that stretches in Mount Hope Cemetery contains important historical monuments for some of San Diego's most famous residents, founders, pioneers, and others.
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Important interments
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- E. S. Babcock (1848-1922), real estate maestro, built Hotel del Coronado
- Samuel Brannan (1819-1889), early Mormon pioneer, first billionaire of Gold Rush California, member of San Francisco's first city council
- Hick Carpenter (1855-1937), American baseball player
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), author of criminal stories and novels, creates detective Philip Marlowe
- Benjamin T. Frederick (1834-1903), politician, miner and real estate agent from Iowa and California
- Charles T. Hinde (1832-1915), industrialist, river ship captain, businessman, and original investor of Hotel del Coronado.
- Alonzo Horton (1813-1909), founder of modern San Diego, namesake Horton Plaza
- Alta M. Hulett (1854-1877), one of America's first female lawyers
- John F. Kinney (1816-1902), American lawyer, judge, and politician
- George Marston (1850-1946), involved with establishing Balboa Park, San Diego Public Library System, and the Serra Museum
- Kate Morgan (1865-1892), an Iowa woman who died in a state of being questioned and considered by some to haunt Hotel del Coronado
- Lakiba Nicole Palmer (1978-2000), US Navy sailor killed in attack on USS Cole
- Kate Sessions (1857-1940), San Diego horticultural pioneer
- Matthew Sherman (1827-1898), land developer, pioneer of San Diego, mayor from 1891 to 1893
- Walter R. Taliaferro (1880-1915), aviator
- Thomas Whaley (1823-1890), early settlers
- Robert Waterman (1826-1891), California Governor from 1887 to 1891 Thomas Waterson (1895-1947), a member of the Memphis Police Department who captured the public enemy of Machine Gun Kelly in Memphis, Tennessee, stormed in 1933.
There is one British Commonwealth war tomb, a British Royal Air Force officer of World War I.
References
Further reading
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Permanent California: pictorial guide to California graveyard . Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green. pp. 209-214. ISBN: 978-0930031213. OCLCÃ, 19322965.
External links
- Mount Hope Cemetery/Park & ​​amp; Recreation
- San Diego History Journal - San Diego Cemeteries: Quick Guide
- US. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Funeral of Mount Hope
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