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Lone Mountain is a hill in west-central San Francisco, California and the site of the private University of San Francisco (USF) – Lone Mountain Campus, which in turn was previously the San Francisco Lone Mountain College for Women. It was once the location of Lone Mountain Cemetery, a complex encompassing the Laurel Hill, Calvary, Masonic, and Odd Fellows Cemeteries. == Cemetery == 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, California History (journal), volume 85 number 3 2008〕 In 1867, the cemetery was renamed Laurel Hill Cemetery, after the Laurel Hill garden cemetery in Philadelphia.〔 In the early 20th century, San Francisco voted most of its cemeteries out of existence, ostensibly for public health reasons; after decades of further dispute the transfer of Lone Mountain's forty-seven thousand inhabitants began, primarily to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in the city of Colma, immediately south of San Francisco. In what writer Harold Gilliam has 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 Spanish name for Lone Mountain was El Divisadero, from the Spanish ''divisadero'', which means a point from which one can look far. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lone Mountain (California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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