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Sacramento City Cemetery
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California

GPS: 38.562160, -121.501213

1000 Broadway
Sacramento, CA 95818

Published: August 8, 2016
Total records: 38,340 (approx)

Sacramento City Cemetery is owned by the City of Sacramento. The Old City Cemetery, Inc. is a part of the Sacramento County Historical Society, and is dedicated to preserving the cemetery.

For more information, visit http://oldcitycemetery.com/

History

Prior to the establishment of Sacramento City Cemetery in 1849, burials were conducted in an area not far from Sutter's Fort, but its lower elevation and closeness to the American River caused it to flood frequently. These old grounds, however, continued as a privately operated cemetery, named New Helvetia, for some twenty-five years before reverting to the city. Over the years, tombstones and monuments were removed, vandalized and even stolen. Eventually, in the 1950s, the city authorized the construction of Sutter Junior High School (now Sutter Middle School) on the site - Alhambra Boulevard to 32nd Street, I to J Streets. A historical marker can be found at the edge of the sidewalk along Alhambra Boulevard. Unclaimed remains were re-interred in special plots at both the City Cemetery and East Lawn Memorial Park on Folsom Boulevard.

The Sacramento City Cemetery was established in 1849 with a donation of 10 acres by Captain John Sutter. The cemetery follows the Victorian Garden style, popular throughout the mid and late 1800's.

Among the first interments in Sacramento City Cemetery were over 600 victims of the 1850 Cholera Epidemic. Today, the Old City Cemetery is the final resting place of more than 25,000 pioneers, immigrants, their families and descendants. Among the more notable are Captain John A. Sutter, Jr., Sacramento city founder; lawyer and art collector E. B. Crocker; storekeeper turned railroad mogul Mark Hopkins; William Stephen Hamilton, the son of Alexander Hamilton; three California governors and many of Sacramento's earliest mayors.

Cemetery Records

• Burial Index, 1849-2000 (852 pages, 2.63 MB) - compiled by the Old City Cemetery, Inc.