The old Quaker burial ground, Whittier

California · United States · Cemetery

A Quaker cemetery turned into a park. The headstones were taken away and one marker in the second half of the park lists the names of everyone still there.

The park at Whittier, California was a Quaker cemetery. The town converted it, and the headstones were removed.

One large marker stands in the second half of the park listing the names of the dead.

They are still in the ground. Removing a headstone moves the marker, not the grave, and this is one of a great many American parks and car parks where that distinction was quietly set aside.

What visitors describe is a patch of fog that sits over the park and does not extend past the roads to the houses on either side.

Whittier was founded by Quakers, and the people buried here were the town's first families. The park is public, and the marker is worth reading.

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The old Quaker burial ground, Whittier is in California, United States.