Features the Evergreen Historical Cemetery in Santa Cruz, California, which was established in 1850 as one of the earliest Protestant cemeteries in California, accommodating people from all different social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. Reveals that the cemetery is used year-round by people researching family history. Provides information on hours, self-guided, guided, and special tours.

Created in 1858, the Evergreen Cemetery provided a final resting place for a multitude of Santa Cruz's adventurers, entrepreneurs and artists. The land was a gift from the Imus family, who'd narrowly escaped the fate of the Donner Party more than a decade earlier and had already buried two of their own. Alongside these pioneers, the community buried many other notables, including London Nelson, an emancipated slave turned farmer who left his land to the city schools, and journalist Belle Dormer, who covered a visit by President Benjamin Harrison and the women's suffrage movement. Join Traci Bliss and Randall Brown as they bring to life the tragedies and triumphs of the diverse men and women interred at Evergreen Cemetery.

Features 37 historically well-known individuals buried in Santa Cruz Memorial Park.

This is the second edition of this book and is the culmination the Studio for Southern California History's annual tradition of holding a walking tour at Evergreen Cemetery. Established in 1877, Evergreen Cemetery has many Los Angeles histories including Charlotta Amanda Bass, Jesse Belvin, Bridget Biddy Mason, Toyo Miyatake, African American actors from early Hollywood, athletes, veterans from the Mexican American War to the present struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book highlights poets, musicians, mothers and sons and is a great way to explore the oldest non-denominational cemetery in Los Angeles. This book includes an illustrated map, poetry, photographs, timeline and references to go further. This second edition has sections on suicide and Japanese mon.