Lone Mountain is a neighborhood and a historic hill in west-central
San Francisco,
California. It is the present-site of the private
University of San Francisco (USF) Lone Mountain Campus. It was once the location of the
Lone Mountain Cemetery
Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the Lone Mountain (California), Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, and Presidio ...
, a complex encompassing the Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic, and Odd Fellows Cemeteries.
History
Lone Mountain is one of San Francisco's
historic hills. The Spanish name for Lone Mountain was El Divisadero, from the Spanish ''divisadero'', which means a point from which one can look far.
The Lone Mountain Cemetery was opened on May 30, 1854.
[Unmaking Historic Spaces: Urban Progress and the San Francisco Cemetery Debate, 1895-1937](_blank)
by Tamara Venit Shelton, California History, volume 85 number 3 2008 In 1867, the cemetery was renamed Laurel Hill Cemetery.
After decades of litigation and public debate, the gravesite remains were all moved primarily to
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the city of
Colma, immediately south of San Francisco. In what writer
Harold Gilliam described as "an act of civic vandalism," thousands of crypts and mausoleums were unearthed, the granite and marble dumped along the Pacific shoreline to reinforce seawalls.
The
Lone Mountain College
Lone Mountain College was a college acquired by the University of San Francisco (USF) in 1978.
History
It was built and founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart as Sacred Heart Academy in Menlo Park, California, in 1898. The school bec ...
(formerly Sacred Heart Academy and San Francisco College for Women) was founded in 1898; and changed leadership and ownership many times, before becoming part of USF. The Lone Mountain area is also known as "University Terrace" because of the terraces that connect the two USF campuses.
File:Lone Mountain, San Francisco 1883.jpg, Lone Mountain
File:Lone Mountain ca 1910.jpg, Watercolor (1910) by Alice Brown Chittenden. Tents are remnants of camps after the 1906 earthquake.
File:SanFrancisco RichmondDistrict OddFellowsCemetery 1899.jpg, Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1899
Neighborhood
The Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco is a vibrant and includes residential, commercial, and a university community. It is also home to the Angelo J. Rossi Playground and Rossi Pool located at Arguello Boulevard and Anza Street.
See also
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List of San Francisco, California Hills
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San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home
References
External links
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Encyclopedia of San FranciscoArticle on cemeteries
{{Neighborhoods of San Francisco
Hills of San Francisco
History of San Francisco
Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area
University of San Francisco
Neighborhoods in San Francisco
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