COUNTY HOSPITAL CEMETERY
(aka County Cemetery and Pestilence House Cemetery)

Assessor's Parcel No. 001-070-15
Hill behind Health Services Office, Spring & Tunnel Streets
Placerville, California

Supervisorial District 3 - Carl Borelli

What the City of Placerville Found
in 1975...

          In the summer of 1975, the City of Placerville was making improvements to Tunnel Street which borders the County's old hospital property.  The city's engineering department contacted the County relative to their having encountered Grave No. 351* from the Hospital Cemetery.  This, we would note, was right off the old alignment of Tunnel Street which likely was being widened.
          This occurred during the time that Mrs. Betty C. Laarveld was performing the County's Cemetery Survey for the Public Works Department.  Mrs. Laarveld fielded the call from the city and send a memo to G. Arthur Cort, then director of the department.
          Apparently the City felt the grave was in the way of the improvements, while the County Surveyor, Fred DeBerry, felt it was not.
           The city appears to have wanted to relocate the grave as it was seeking advice on the proper legal procedures to deal with the grave.  It is not known if the grave was moved or left in place.  Although EDCPCC has attempted to locate the stake mentioned in Mrs. Laarveld's memo, we have been unable to site it.

* Grave stake No. 351 is recorded as being that of August Johnson or August Johnson Bendan, who died in late April 1928.

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