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Pictured on June 18, 1955, is the landmark sign at the Sacramento City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway. Attached to the facility’s main office, it states: “City Cemetery; Capt. John A. Sutter donated the original ten acres to the City of Sacramento, Nov. 28, 1949; Erected by Southside Improvement Club; Marked by Historic Landmarks Commission 1955.” The earliest dated headstone is for a Franklin B. Davis, who died in 1846. Notable persons interred at the cemetery are Governors John Bigler, William Irwin and Newton Booth, capitalist Marc Hopkins, and California Supreme Court Justice and namesake of the Crocker Art Museum, E.B. Crocker.
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