This Cemetery is Now SF’s First Ever Archaeological Landmark
Lincoln Park/City Cemetery is now officially a San Francisco city landmark. SF Heritage worked closely with Supervisor Connie Chan, the Planning Department, and community groups to draft the designation, which is the city’s first primarily archaeological city landmark and one of the most important preservation accomplishments of recent years.
A remnant of City Cemetery, Kong Chow Funerary Chapel, still stands as a symbol of Chinese culture and history in San Francisco. Historically, the burial of the deceased in the Chinese section of City Cemetery was an occasion for religious rites that included prayer, the burning of incense, food offerings of roast pig and fowl, and the burning of symbolic paper money and clothes for the deceased’s journeys in the afterlife.
City dignitaries recently celebrated the unveiling of a brand new sign dedicated to City Cemetery, the first piece of interpretive signage at the park that tells the story of the thousands of people – primarily immigrant communities and the poor –interred before the cemetery’s closure in 1898.
Read more at SF Heritage.
Some #SF muni golf history: Before Lincoln Park #Golf was built in 1903, the land was home to City Cemetery. Supervisor @ConnieChanSF sponsored an ordinance designating City Cemetery as a Landmark, honoring the 19th century immigrants who built the City:https://t.co/6odvJygwlP pic.twitter.com/52OaQyQKoz
— San Francisco Public Golf Alliance (@SFPublicGolf) October 4, 2022
