Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast
A podcast about the history, preservation, and culture of American cemeteries hosted by Liz Clappin
Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast
Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma
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Liz Clappin
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Episode 12
Between 1895 and 1945 San Francisco not only outlawed burial within city limits, but within the entire county. Following that, a fast-growing western port town hungry for land rallied for the removal of the thirteen major cemeteries. Meanwhile, to the south a quiet farming community, less than two square miles was slowly transforming into something extraordinary, America's first true necropolis with more than 1.5 million burials.
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