Lone Mountain is a neighborhood and a historic hill in west-central

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. It is the present-site of the private

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(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
by Tamara Venit Shelton,

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, 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

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in the city of Colma, immediately south of San Francisco. In what writer

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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 became ...

(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

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. 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.

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Encyclopedia of San Francisco
Article 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 __FORCETOC__

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