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Santa Cruz, California

Historical Evergreen Cemetery is one of the oldest Protestant cemeteries in California. It is surely one of the moodiest, with its dank green vegetation, dark paths, overhanging vines, and crumbling stones.


Entrance to Evergreen Cemetery

Julia S. - Aged 19 days. The first resident of the cemetery in 1850.


A wood grave marker

Overhead view of Evergreen Cemetery

A French marker

Another vista over Evergreen Cemetery

Louden Nelson - "He was a colored man and willed all his property to Santa Cruz School District No. 1. Rest in Peace"

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