Walk in the park

For our nightly walk, we took the Rock-star to a park in the next neightborhood. It is a beautiful park with huge magnolia trees. We stumbled onto a plaque, stating that Pioneer park was a convereted cemetary. They moved the gravestones, but left the bodies.





Calvary Cemetery (now Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park, or just Pioneer Park) in Mission Hills was a Catholic cemetery primarily in use between 1875 and 1919. Burials continued until 1960 however. In 1970 the cemetery was converted to a public park and the grave markers (but not thebodies) were removed. A group of some of the gravestones were clustered together and a central memorial was placed in the southeast corner of the park. The exact number of people buried at Calvary Cemetery is not known. Complete records nolonger exist in one place. Research has documented almost 4,000 burials. More than 1,500 of theburials occurred before July 1, 1905 when California established specific statewide requirements forregistration of deaths.