On February 22, 1879, a steam engine running a new pump exploded in Stockton and killed 18 people. Victims of the explosion went into the same ground on Cemetery Lane.
Stockton Rural Cemetery opened in 1861 on 75 acres that Captain Charles M. Weber, the man who founded the city, helped acquire, and still covers 75 acres today at 2350 Cemetery Lane in Stockton, California.
A California governor is here, and so is the founder of Stockton’s African Baptist Church. So is the industrialist whose company helped form Caterpillar, and a monument to a man who auctioned the same sack of flour across the West for the Union war effort…