I got a lot of my facts right on the former Calvary Cemetery/now Pioneer Memorial Park in Mission Hills in my previous post. But I didn't get them all right.
The state law that allowed the City of San Diego to convert the Catholic cemetery, once it was declared abandoned, into a pioneer memorial park was made way back in 1957.
The park wasn't created until after June 1970, but by the end of 1971.
Yes, the caskets are still buried under the sod to this day.
Yes, people are out there right now with their towels and yoga mats stretched out to do workouts on the grass, as we speak.
Consult Barbara Palmer's research work, The Civil War Veterans of San Diego, CA, published in 1998. It's available on Amazon.com. The copy I consult is in the Family Research stacks of the Chula Vista Public Library, Civic Center branch, at 4th and F streets.
You can Google these subjects and access a lot of this information online.
Copyright 2014 Ed Piper
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