Lone Mountain Locations with Pilar (Accessible)

The Spanish called it El Divisadero, The Outlook, for the view from the top. The famous San Francisco poet Bret Harte called it "that hill of awe
That Persian Sindbad saw,—
The mount magnetic"

Lone Mountain was, in 1850s, a high cross-topped hill surrounded by several cemeteries, the marble gravestones of which still line culverts around the Buena Vista park. San Franciscans used to say "she is at Lone Mountain" as a euphemism for death.

In 1859 the stalwart abolitionist, Senator Broderick, was buried here after a duel with by his erstwhile friend, Chief Justice Terry.
In 1860 so was Phineas Gage, known for his accident with an iron rod (his skull was later exhumed - you can see it at Harvard).
Here, too, was the temporary resting place of the gambler Charles Cora and many San Franciscans who gambled with him and whose names you'll recognize from the street signs.
Most of the graves have been relocated to Colma in the first half of the 20th century.

Since 1898 it has been occupied by Lone Mountain College (formerly Sacred Heart Academy and San Francisco College for Women), now part of SFU. Go up the beautiful steps for the view that inspired Bret Harte and many other poets.

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