Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma

Update: 2023-04-24

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Between 1895 and 1945 San Francisco not only outlawed burial within city limits, but within the entire county. Following that, a fast-growing western port town hungry for land rallied for the removal of the thirteen major cemeteries. Meanwhile, to the south a quiet farming community, less than two square miles was slowly transforming into something extraordinary, America's first true necropolis with more than 1.5 million burials.

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Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma

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Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma

Liz Clappin

Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma