Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, Historic cemetery in Sacramento, California.

The Sacramento Historic City Cemetery is a large burial ground featuring Victorian-style gardens and terraced sections divided by brick retaining walls. The grounds display numerous monuments and headstones from different periods scattered among landscaped vegetation and trees.

John Augustus Sutter Jr. donated 10 acres for the cemetery in 1849, and it was landscaped as a Victorian garden. In 1850 about 600 cholera victims were buried in mass graves there, and a monument followed in 1852. Fraternal sections were bought by the Masons (1859), Odd Fellows (1861) and Pioneers (1862); Margaret Crocker's 23-acre gift in 1880 brought the grounds to 60 acres.

The cemetery reflects Sacramento's past through the stories preserved on its headstones and monuments. Walking through the grounds, visitors encounter graves of people from different eras and backgrounds who shaped the city's development.

The cemetery entrance is at 1000 Broadway at 10th Street. Sections on uneven ground are held by brick or concrete retaining walls that form level terraces, so paths stay flat between steps. The gatehouse and bell tower built in 1857 were demolished in 1949 when Broadway was widened, so look for the terraces rather than a formal entry building.

The mass grave of some 600 cholera victims from the 1850 epidemic lies somewhere in the grounds, but its exact location is unknown; a monument was erected to them in 1852. William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, died in Sacramento in 1850, most likely of cholera, and is buried here.