Guidebook
NO. 566 SACRAMENTO CITY CEMETERY - Resting place of California pioneers, this cemetery was established in 1850. Many of the victims of the cholera epidemic of that year are buried here. Included among the graves of illustrious Californians are those of John Bigler, Newton Booth, and William Irwin, Governors of California, General George Wright, hero of the Mexican War, Mark Hopkins, cobuilder of the Central Pacific Railroad, General Albert M. Winn, founder of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Hardin Bigelow, first mayor of Sacramento, William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, E. B. Crocker, founder of the Crocker Art Gallery, and Reverend O. C. Wheeler, organizer in 1850 of the first Baptist Church.
Location
1000 Broadway Sacramento, CA 94291 -- (10th Street and Broadway)
Open Map
CHL No. 566 Sacramento City Cemetery, land donated by John Sutter
CHL No. 566 Sacramento City Cemetery Marker
CHL No. 566 Sacramento City Cemetery Plaque
CHL No. 566 Sacramento City Cemetery -- Grave of John Sutter
CHL No. 566 Sacramento City Cemetery -- Crocker Family Plot