Pioneer Cemetery (San Andreas, California)
The Pioneer Cemetery, formerly known as the North Branch Cemetery, is a defunct cemetery established in c. 1851, and located along California State Route 12 in San Andreas, Calaveras County, California. It is the oldest known cemetery in Calaveras County.
The site is listed as a California Historical Landmark (number 271), by the California Office of Historic Preservation since September 3, 1937.
History
The cemetery was established in c. 1851 and was originally named the North Branch Cemetery, named after a town of North Branch that once existed near the cemetery. Most of the graves in Pioneer Cemetery are unmarked.
Many of the graves from the former Poverty Bar Cemetery in Poverty Bar, Amador County were reinterred in the Pioneer Cemetery in 1962, while the East Bay Municipal Utility District worked on building Camanche Reservoir. A historic plaque marks the graves for the reinterred.
See also
- California Historical Landmarks in Calaveras County
- List of cemeteries in California
- Pioneer cemetery, list of early cemeteries
References
- ^ "Pioneer Cemetery". CA State Parks. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ "California Historical Landmark #271: Pioneer Cemetery in Calaveras County". noehill.com. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ Maness, Charity. "The forgotten cemetery: Pioneer Cemetery established 1851". Calaveras Enterprise. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ Rensch, Hero Eugene; Rensch, Ethel Grace; Hoover, Mildred Brooke (1966). Historical Spots in California (3 ed.). Stanford University Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-8047-0079-5.
- ^ "Calaveras". Office of Historic Preservation, CA State Parks, State of California. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ Kyle, Douglas E.; Rensch, Hero Eugene; Rensch, Ethel Grace; Hoover, Mildred Brooke; Abeloe, William (2002-09-06). Historic Spots in California: Fifth Edition. Stanford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-8047-7817-6.
- ^ AGS Quarterly: Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies. Association for Gravestone Studies. 1999. p. 17.