El Campo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego is the city's second oldest official cemetery, having opened in 1849. The cemetery was only in use for 31 years and saw approximately 450 burials before it began to fall into disrepair. By 1889, El Campo Santo was treated with such little regard that a street car line went through it. Two streets cut through the edges of the cemetery as well, covering a number of graves under the roads. On San Diego Ave. the locations of the grave sites (which were relocated with ground penetrating radar in the 1990s) are marked on the sidewalk and road. On the opposite side of the cemetery, Linwood St has a plaque with a map to the grave sites, but no markers.
The cemetery is the final resting place to some important and infamous early San Diegans. The first Alcalde (mayor) of San Diego is buried there, as is Yankee Jim, who is said to haunt the Whaley House just a couple blocks away. The cemetery was the site of several executions, and along with the Whaley House down the street it has been the subject of a number of books and TV shows dealing with paranormal activity.
In this video we explore the cemetery, which El Camino Real and Highway 101 once went through, and talk about its history and a few of the many people buried there.
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El Campo Santo is located at 2410 San Diego Avenue, San Diego, California 92110.
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4 май 2021
