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The Tombs of Charles Crocker, David Colton, David Hewes, and Thomas Hill
at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, California
The massive mausoleum of Charles Crocker (1822-1888) is located on Mountain View Cemetery's famous "Millionaire's Row" and was designed by New York architect Arthur Page Brown who later designed the San Francisco Ferry Building. The smaller crypt to the right is that of Samuel Merritt, M.D.,
(1822-1890), one of the first mayors of Oakland who was also a
physician, shipbuilder, philanthropist, early regent of the University
of California, founder of Merritt Hospital (now part of Summit Medical
Center), and a founding trustee of the Mountain View Cemetery
The Charles Crocker mausoleum.
The Charles Crocker mausoleum.
The Charles Crocker (left) and Dr. Samuel Merritt (right) mausoleums.
The mausoleum of David Doudy Colton (1832-1878).
The mausoleum of David Hewes (1822-1915), the San Francisco businessman who donated the "Golden Spike" driven at Promontory Summit, U.T., on May 10, 1869.
The grave of Thomas Hill (1829-1908), painter of "The Last Spike" .
Original digital images by and courtesy of Bruce C. Cooper, DigitalImageServices.com.