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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Silent Cities San Francisco: Hidden Histories of the Region's Cemeteries

Silent Cities San Francisco: Hidden Histories of the Region's Cemeteries

Ferri, Jessica

Paperback

Regional: WestWest

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1493056468
ISBN13: 9781493056460
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Published: Oct 15 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
In 1914, desperate for land after the Gold Rush brought a population explosion to San Francisco, the city exiled its cemeteries, barring burials within city limits and relocating its existing graveyards to the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, spawning America's only necropolis, where the dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1. But there's more to the story of the Bay Area's cemeteries than this expulsion. Silent Cities San Francisco reveals the complex cultural makeup of the Bay Area, where diversity and history collide, pitting the dead against the living in a race for space and memorialization.

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