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Chevra Kaddisha Cemetery (
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
: ''Holy Society''), later known as Home of Peace Cemetery, was the first Jewish cemetery in California founded on November 12, 1850, by the Sacramento City Hebrew Association, and was once located at 33rd at K Streets (present-day 3230 J Street) in the
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neighborhood of
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, California. The cemetery closed around 1924, and is no longer standing. It is the location of a strip mall, there is no historical plaque. The site is listed as a
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(number 654-1), by the California Office of Historic Preservation since July 28, 1958.


History

Moses Hyman, a merchant from New Orleans that settled in Sacramento in 1849, had donated to the Jewish Benevolent Society for the establishment of the cemetery. Hyman had made the journey from New Orleans to California with Samuel Harris Goldstein, a merchant who settled in Marysville and accidentally died on May 30, 1850, when he fell overboard on a boat. It is believed that Goldstein was the first person buried at the cemetery. The cemetery was owned by Congregation B'nai Israel of Sacramento. Some 500 burials occurred at this site. It was located across the street to the former New Helvetia Cemetery, the first cemetery in the city. In 1924, part of the cemetery land was sold, and they started reinterring graves. The majority were moved to Home of Peace Jewish Cemetery (at 6200 Stockton Blvd.) in Sacramento, as well as some were moved to the Jewish cemeteries in Colma, California. The last portion of the cemetery land was sold in 1945.


See also

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California Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County This list includes properties and districts listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in Sacramento County, California. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitu ...
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Chevra kadisha The term ''Chevra kadisha'' (Modern Hebrew: חֶבְרָה קַדִּישָׁא) gained its modern sense of "burial society" in the nineteenth century. It is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of deceased Je ...
, a Jewish 19th-century burial association *
List of cemeteries in California This list of cemeteries in California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include ...
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Sacramento Historic City Cemetery The Sacramento Historic City Cemetery (or Old City Cemetery), located at 1000 Broadway, at 10th Street, is the oldest existing cemetery in Sacramento, California, Sacramento, California. It was designed to resemble a Victorian garden and sect ...
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Sonora Hebrew Cemetery The Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, is an inactive Jewish cemetery founded in c. 1851, and located in Sonora, California. This was the first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush region. History The cemetery was foun ...
, first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush area


References

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