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Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California

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The Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre rural cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859. The association they formed still operates the cemetery today. Mountain View was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who also designed New York City's Central Park and much of UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Many of California's important historical figures, drawn by Olmsted's reputation, are buried here, and there are many grandiose crypts in tribute to the wealthy, especially along the ridge section with a view across the Bay to the San Francisco skyline, known as "Millionaires' Row".[1] Because of this, and its beautiful setting, the cemetery is a tourist draw, and tours led by docents began in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Cemetery_(Oakland,_California)



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