Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859.There are many grandiose crypts in tribute to the wealthy, especially along the ridge section with a view across the Bay to the San Francisco skyline, known as "Millionaires' Row".Olmsted, drawing upon the concepts of American Transcendentalism, integrated Parisian grand monuments and broad avenues.There are many notable people interred in Mountain View; many are local figures in California history, but others have achieved wider fame.[11] In The Big Wake-Up, a 2009 crime novel by Mark Coggins, the main character in the book, a detective named August Riordan, discovers that Argentine first lady Eva Perón is not at rest in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, but is actually buried in Mountain View Cemetery.
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