There’s a common bit of lore around San Francisco’s cemeteries. It holds that in 1900, Mayor James Phelan outlawed them, and so most decamped to Colma. It’s not true. Phelan outlawed new burials, which spurred an exodus. Local campaigns to drive out cemeteries — ostensibly to protect public health, but really to free up real […]
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