San Francisco's Golden Gate Cemetery
now Lincoln Park

1894 Spring Valley Water Works map The cemetery is at lower left.  Click on map to enlarge.  Then back bar to return here.

From SF Municipal Reports 1892, I found this information on the Golden Gate Cemetery, also known as the City Cemetery.
It began at 33rd Ave. and Clement, then west on Clement to 48th Ave., totaling some 200 acres, comprising the area now known as Lincoln Park.
Beginning in 1870 remains from Yerba Buena Cemetery were transferred to Golden Gate, allowing for the construction of the new City Hall.
In 1878, a number of charitable organizations applied for plots of land for their deceased members.
The City regretted approving the cemetery knowing that it would lessen property values in the vicinity of new homes, the result of expanding street railroads. The influence of the organizations, however, forced the Board of Supervisors to allow the burials.
By 1887 residents finally convinced the Board to appoint a committee to investigate the desirability of closing the cemetery.
The committee recommended its closure and gave the following details of burials at Golden Gate.

*(The Municipal Reports noted that the Chinese burials were temporary and after decomposition the remains were exhumed. The bones were cleansed and shipped to China for reburial.)
The Committee also recommended that a plot of land of 174 acres be purchased in San Mateo County at $160 an acre.
The proposal met with hostile criticism and was abandoned, burials continuing.
In 1891 the U.S. government filed a condemnation suit against the City to acquire a portion of the cemetery, 54 acres, for coastal defense purposes.
The City challenged the suit in court, but lost receiving $75,000 in compensation.
Golden Gate Cemetery finally closed in 1909.   

Municipal Reports Index