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Colma, California
In Colma, California, every home backs up to a cemetery. This quiet suburb holds nearly all of San Francisco’s dead, creating a unique community where funeral homes outnumber grocery stores and about 1,500 residents share their streets with 1.5 million neighbors buried beneath their feet.
Here’s the story of America’s City of the Silent.
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The Gold Rush Origins
The 1849 Gold Rush brought bubonic plague outbreaks to San Francisco, leading to high death rates. Hundreds of thousands rushed to the city, creating an urgent need for burial grounds…