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Wikipedia Riverside National Cemetery (RNC) is a cemetery located in Riverside, California, dedicated to the interment of United States military personnel. The cemetery covers 921 acres, making it the third-largest cemetery managed by the National Cemetery Administration. Find a Grave
The Indigenous peoples of the valleys, mountains and deserts of what is now Riverside County are the Serrano, the Payómkawichum, the Mohave, the Cupeno, the Chemehuevi, the Cahuilla, and the Tongva. The Aguanga and Temecula Basins, Elsinore Trough and eastern Santa Ana Mountains are the traditional homelands of the Payómkawichum. The inland valleys in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains an...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Riverside, California. Official Website Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County. History In the late 1700s and early 1800s the area was inhabited by Cahuilla and the Serrano people. Californios such as Bernardo Yorba and Juan Bandini established ranches during the first half of the 19th century. In the 1860s...
Wikipedia The University of California, San Diego (also referred to as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States. The university occupies 2,141 acres near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Inst...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alameda County, California. The county was formed on March 25, 1853, from a large portion of Contra Costa County and a smaller portion of Santa Clara County . The county seat at the time of the county's formation was located at Alvarado, now part of Union City. In 1856, it was moved to San Leandro, where the county courthouse was de...
What is now known as El Dorado County has been home to the Maidu, Nisenan, Washoe, and Miwok Indigenous American nations for centuries. Because of colonization, their numbers dropped severely. Today many indigenous people in El Dorado County, like the Nissenan are telling their stories and culture, praying in their languages sharing their history; Once seen as struggling to survive to now on th...
San Luis Obispo County, California: Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anaheim, California . Official Website Overview Anaheim was founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated as the second city in Los Angeles County on March 18, 1876; Orange County was split off from Los Angeles County in 1889. Anaheim remained largely an agricultural community until Disneyland opened in 1955. This led ...
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum is the largest Catholic cemetery in the Diocese of Sacramento County . It was established in 1928 and consecrated by Bishop Robert Armstrong in 1929. There are 70 acres of both developed and undeveloped land at the cemetery with the focal point being St. Mary's Mausoleum, a beautiful church-like structure built in 1934. St. Mary's is the last resting p...
Spreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the thirteenth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. In the beginning, the area that became Kern County was dominated by mining in the mountains and in the desert. County government ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bakersfield, California. Official Website Bakersfield is the county seat of Kern County near the southern end of the San Joaquin and Central Valleys. Wikipedia In 1862, disastrous floods swept away the original settlement founded in 1860 by the German-born Christian Bohna . Among those attracted to the area by the California Gol...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sonoma County, California. Official Website History The Pomo, Coast Miwok and Wappo peoples were the earliest human settlers of Sonoma County, between 8000 and 5000 BC, effectively living within the natural carrying capacity of the land. Archaeological evidence of these First people includes a number of occurrences of rock carvings,...
Wikipedia San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public comprehensive university located in San Francisco, California, United States. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different Bachelor's degrees, 94 Master's degrees, 5 Doctoral degrees including two Doctor of Education, a Doctor ...
Woodlawn Cemetery, formerly Ballona Cemetery , is located at 1847 14th Street, alongside Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States. The cemetery is owned and operated by the city of Santa Monica. The cemetery has an eco-friendly section, whose first burial was Tom Hayden, former husband of actress Jane Fonda. Find a Grave Billion Graves Seeing Stars.com
As the oldest and largest Cemetery in “the city of cemeteries,” Colma, California, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is rich in California history. This historical legacy translates into the important values of tradition, experience, stability and trust. For over 125 years, Holy Cross management and staff have been committed to providing compassionate and responsive service to families during their ...
Wikipedia Pepperdine University is an American private, not-for-profit, coeducational research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's 830-acre (340 ha) campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu is the location for Seaver College, the School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology...
Sacramento (Spanish for 'sacrament') is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County . Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's 2020 population of 524,943 makes it the fourth-most populous city in Northern California, sixth-most populous city in the state, and the ninth-m...
Wikipedia The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three system public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System. As of spring 2015, the Univers...
Wikipedia The University of the Pacific (also referred to as Pacific or UOP) is a private university in Stockton, California. It is the oldest chartered university in California, the first independent co-educational campus in California, and both the first conservatory of music and first medical school on the West Coast. It was first chartered on July 10, 1851, in Santa Clara, California, un...
Rocklin Cemetery's earliest burials date back to the Gold Rush era of the 1850's; miners worked the Secret Ravine area (across Hwy 80) which is in close proximity to the burial grounds. In the early years the cemetery's land was state owned. In 1889 the burial grounds were granted to the Masons and Oddfellows Lodge, and then forty years later in 1929 the grounds became part of a public cemetery...
Wikipedia The University of San Francisco (USF) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in San Francisco, California, United States. The school's main campus is located on a 55-acre setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hilltop", and part of the main campus is located on Lone Mountain, one of San Francisco's major hills. In addition, th...
Wikipedia The University of California, Santa Cruz (also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC), is a public, collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system. Located 75 miles south of San Francisco at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, the campus lies on 2,001 acres (810 ha) of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay. ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from California .* Early Jewish Families from Los Angeles * Early Jewish Families from San Francisco Here is a partial reference list: The Western Jewish History Center (WJHC) A Cultural History of Jews in California... Birth of a Community: Jews and the Gold Rush
This project is for those interred in the Pierce Bros. Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, California. The cemetery is located on 5600 Lindero Canyon Road and is also known as Valley Oaks Memorial Park . Notable Interments Links Find a Grave Wikipedia
Wikipedia =Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College and Pierce, is a public community college that serves 22,000 students each semester in the northern Chalk Hills of Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Pierce College is one of the nine colleges of the Los Angeles Community College District and is accredited t...