#1 Earthquake Memorial
One of the most important spots in the cemetery is the memorial to those victims of the 1906 earthquake in Santa Rosa. On April 18, 1906 at 5:15am Santa Rosa was heavily hit by what many call the “San Francisco earthquake.”
The downtown Santa Rosa business district was in shambles.
You see at this mass burial site some of the victims of the earthquake. In all, 80 to 100 people died in Santa Rosa. 15 of which are buried here. The white tombstone belongs to the Bluth brothers (George and William), both of whom were paper carriers for the Press Democrat and were killed in the collapse of the courthouse into the street on that morning. Initials are shown on the concrete slabs for other victims and in some cases, numbers are shown. Those numbers represent unknown persons who were killed by that earthquake.
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