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Modesto Junior College (MJC) is a public community college in Modesto, California. It is part of Yosemite Community College District along with Columbia College. MJC, and Columbia College, belong to the California Community College system along with 112 other public community colleges. The college has two campuses in Modesto. The East Campus is the original campus while the West Campus is the l...
The story of America’s broadening cultural and religious communities, perhaps most apparent on the Pacific Coast, is told in visual terms at Cypress Lawn. Today, Cypress Lawn’s staff is enriched by a variety of cultural backgrounds and is a dynamic demonstration of what makes our country’s “melting pot” of cultures so beautiful. The inspiration for Cypress Lawn started with a carriage ride. O...
This project is for those who are buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, California. Notable Interments Frank Dusy (1837-1898) - California Pioneer, Western Frontiersman Bertrand Wesley Gearhart (1890-1955) - US Congress Hubert Benjamin Leonard (1892-1952) - MLB Player Paul McGuire (1913-1990) - Actor Kazuo Otani (1918-1944) - World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipien...
Forest Lawn Cemetery was renamed from Palm Springs Mortuary & Mausoleum in 2005, is a mausoleum in Cathedral City, California near Palm Springs. It is operated by Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries and is located on 69855 East Ramon Road, Cathedral City, Riverside County, California. Wikipedia: Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) Find a Grave
This cemetery opened in 1968 as Mountain Valley Memorial Park . It is located on 60121 29 Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, San Bernardino County, California. Find a Grave
Menlo College is a private college specializing in business and is located in Atherton, California. Wikipedia
The original inhabitants of the area now known as Humboldt County include the Algic Wiyot, Yurok; the Hokan Karuk; and the Athapaskan Hupa, Chilula, Whilkut, Tsnungwe as well as the Eel River Athapaskan peoples, including the Wailaki, Mattole and Nongatl. Spanish traders made unintended visits to California with the Manila Galleons on their return trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565. ...
This subportal is part of the California Portal and the Education in the United States Portal . Welcome to the Education in California subportal! This subportal is part of the Education in the United States portal, which is in turn part of Geni's umbrella portal for all education-related projects. We hope this categorization makes things easier for you to find! If you have a project ...
Mount Olivet Cemetery , in Colma, San Mateo County, California, was established in 1896 and changed its name to Olivet Memorial Park in the early 1900s. In 2020, Olivet Memorial Park was purchased by Cypress Lawn and renamed Olivet Gardens of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park . Find a Grave
Wikipedia The county is named for Chief Marin .
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery resides in San Rafael, Marin County, California. Also known as Kol Shalom Cemetery , Sha'arei Shalom Cemetery, this large burying ground is active. The earliest burial is that of the infant daughter of Judge A Jerome “Al” Barney. Judge Barney was born in Cayuga County, New York. He and his family settled in Marin County, California. The judge is also buried in Mount Tam...
Imperial County (Spanish: Condado de Imperial) is a county located on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 179,702, making it the least populous county in Southern California. The county seat and largest city is El Centro. Imperial is the most recent California county to be established, as it was created in 1907 out of portions of San D...
This 'Cemetery of the Pioneers', as it's known, is located on 41001 Chapel Way, Fremont, Alameda County, California. It's also known as Fremont Memorial Park . Find a Grave Walking Tour
Pioneers of California will include those who emigrated to California prior to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 . Although California was admitted to the Union in 1850, travel between California and the rest of the continental U.S. remained time consuming and dangerous. Once the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens came west, mar...
The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Scripps College, Pitzer College) and two graduate (CGU and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences) institutions of h...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Irvine, Orange County, California. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and it was fully incorporated in 1971. Official Website Villages Each of the villages was initially planned to have a distinct architectural theme. El Camino Glen | College Park | The Colony | Columbus Grove | Cypress Village | Deerf...
The proposed establishment of "the largest cemetery in the world" was announced in November 1905, to be "on a high strip of ground two miles southwest of Los Angeles". In 1907, a "handsome, two-story, white granite chapel" was completed at a cost of "about $40,000". Also in 1907 the management placed an order "with the factory in the East" for a $12,000 funeral car to be used "on the electric...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. History Wikipedia Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. The city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. Daniel Freeman acquired the rancho and was a founder of the ...
This cemetery is located on 7845 Santiago Canyon Road, Orange, Orange County, California. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located at Interstate 805 and Highway 94, on 4470 Hilltop Drive, San Diego, California. Find a Grave
This cemetery was established in 1922. It is located on 2105 West Belmont Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, California. Find a Grave
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a cemetery in Hayward, California. It is a Catholic cemetery run by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, which also operates the Holy Angels Funeral and Cremation Center at the same location. It was the first Catholic Church-owned funeral home in the U.S. The cemetery planted 3 acres of vineyards to provide grapes for sacramental wine used by the Oakland Diocese. T...
This park is located on 9101 Kern Canyon Road, Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Find a Grave
Present-day Inyo county has been the historic homeland for thousands of years of the Mono, Timbisha, Kawaiisu, and Northern Paiute Native Americans. The descendants of these ancestors continue to live in their traditional homelands in the Owens River Valley and in Death Valley National Park. Worse, the portion north of the 37th parallel had been claimed by Nevada Territory (later the state of N...
Prehistorically, the indigenous Mountain Maidu were the primary inhabitants of the area now known as Plumas County. The Maidu lived in small settlements along the edges of valleys, subsisting on roots, acorns, grasses, seeds, and occasionally fish and big game. They were decentralized and had no tribal leadership; most bands lived along waterways in and around their own valleys. Areas with high...