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Tag: City Cemetery Los Angeles

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“The Oil of Consolation Was Poured Upon the Troubled Waters of Many Mourning Souls”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 18, 2026
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“In a Beautiful Locality, But It Is the Picture of Neglect”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 17, 2026
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“Comrades, Rest, Your March is Done!”: Decoration/Memorial Day in Los Angeles, 1876-1880

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 25, 2026
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“This Silent But Eloquent Expression of the Feeling That Should Exist in Everyone’s Hearts”: Decoration (Memorial) Day in Los Angeles, 1870-1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 26, 2025May 25, 2026
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The Rise and Fall of Adobe Abodes in Greater Los Angeles, 1851-1876, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 24, 2024
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 29 May 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 29, 2024May 30, 2024
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“Dear Heads of Gray, Dear Boys in Blue”: Memorial Day in Greater Los Angeles, 1910

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  • Posted on May 27, 2024
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  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four
  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
  • “Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

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