Marine Hospital
Dates of Existence: ~1881 to 1912
Location: Presidio, at old Public Health Service Hospital near
15th Avenue and Lake Street, covered over by a parking lot and tennis court.
Number interred: 200 to 800
"... The cemetery had its beginnings more than
130 years ago when the U.S. Treasury Department leased land at the Presidio
to set up the San Francisco Marine Hospital, which took care of the health
needs of merchant mariners. The hospital opened in 1875. In
1881, the adjacent cemetery was first mentioned in records of the Marine
Hospital Service. Burials continued there for at least 31 years, or until
1912..."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, "SAN FRANCISCO, Merchant
seamen forgotten in death, Mariners' cemetery buried in debris, used as
parking lot", Carl Nolte, 25 November 2006. article
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