Long Beach Municipal Cemetery, is a
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
established as early as 1901 and located at the northwest corner of Willow Street and Orange Avenue in Signal Hill, California.
It is located next door, and east of Sunnyside Cemetery.
It was formerly known as Long Beach Signal Hill Cemetery, and also known as Long Beach Cemetery.
Many of the early pioneer families of the city are buried here.
Burials include the first Long Beach city health official, W.L. Cuthbert; and the founder of
Willmore City,
William Erwin Willmore
William Erwin Willmore (either 1844 or 1845 – January 16, 1901) was an English-born American headmaster and the founder of a small colony named after him, Willmore City in 1876. This piece of land, roughly 4000 acres, partitioned from the former ...
.
See also
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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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Cemeteries in Los Angeles County, California
1901 establishments in California
Signal Hill, California
Cemeteries established in the 1900s