Exploring Sacramento's historic Pioneer Cemetery

I grew up in West Sacramento just over the river. I have driven by that cemetery hundred times and never realized that many famous folks are buried there. Wow.

enjoyed this one. I've lived in Sacto. all my life, and never visited the cemetary. I've been to a few cemetarys. A lot of history I didn't know about. Like the bodies under the road. Thanks for the tour and history lesson.

History has always been a favorite subject and I'm fascinated by cemeteries. I've been researching my family's history and have spent many an hour walking through different ones. This is my kind of video.

Fabulous, Jeff! I am Sacramento born and raised and have driven past the city cemetery hundreds of times, always thinking to myself "I want to go explore it one day". I'm 58 and I still haven't set foot inside it. In fairness to me, I did live in Nashville for 20 years, but returned to Sacramento 2.5 years ago. At one point, I can see red brick buidlngs in the background, which are the "projects", low income housing where we lived for a short time in the early '60s. Thanks for your excellent work! I have subscribed to your channel.

I check out historic cemeteries pretty much everywhere I go, and I would say this one is the single most historic/interesting cemetery I have seen. For many years it was horribly dilapidated. Overrun with weeds and subject to vandalism and even grave robbing. Many years ago I supervised a crew of inmate workers who were tasked with bringing the cemetery back to respectable condition. It was very common when beating back the weeds to find human bones lying around. There was no remotely practical way to identify them, so we would just periodically rebury them in holes dug around the perimeter. It is truly scandalous that such a historic site was neglected and allowed to decay to the condition that it did, but it was the same old thing: money. Sacramento did not really start truly embracing its history until the early 1980s when "Old Sacramento" was restored. The restoration of the cemetery came after that. Oh, and I can tell everyone, even those who believe in this sort of thing, that the stories of the place being "haunted" are nonsense. I was in there for countless hours, and the only weird or frightening experiences I had involved some of the street people who lived in the area.

Thank you Jeff and Sarah for bringing us along your quest of history. Wonderfull video as always 👋🌈 Such a joy following you 💐

My great great grandfather & family are buried there, beautiful place

Great job, I’ve been here 35 years and never explored the cemetery, I love the history, thanks Jeff

Wow Jeff, just the introduction alone blew me away with what was to come in this video! Thanks for the quality you deliver all the stories of these historical figures...

Love your music at the end of a program. So fitting for the time period. Love grave yard history too. That's where most of us end up. It's a work of art too, and many are more famous and better known now.

I live in Sacramento for 5 years and never made it over to this cemetery thank you for this video

Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited. A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the soldier when he was killed.

I read online that Alexander Hamilton’s son is buried near Sacramento, thank you for confirming it’s true!

Cemeteries are a great way to study history...

I love history and live near Sacramento. Great episode! Thank you! I am going there soon!

Back in the 80s when I worked in the city's parks and recreation department if you were not a good employee and got one write up from the supervisor they would send you to the city cemetery and you would be pulling weeds, mowing the graves, tending the rose bushes cleaning the tombstones. It may sound like a good thing but you couldn't fuck off while working and it was all by the book it was hard work compared to working in a regular park where you had a little freedom, this was told to me by coworkers that got sent there, they said it kinda interesting to work there and it is definitely haunted even in the day time they could feel a presence near them especially by the crypts

I ADORE our old Pioneer Cemeteries.. I really need to check this one out! COOL! 💥👌

Jeff, this is the Best History Hunters I'veseenthus far...it was packed full of incredible information ...ive been to Sacramento endless times traveling from San Diego to Oregon going to my Family Reunion & I've Never visited this...it is a Definite Must on my way to my Reunion Next Year. Thank you for Sharing this...you have given me many places that I want to stop & see that I've missed just driving by & Never looking up the History that I would have missed had you Not showed these Priceless Places of History...Thank you so Much.

I love exploring cemeteries especially ones with such rich history. I live in Northern California so I appreciate your explorations in the area. Your videos are very well done. Thank you.

I've been traveling through cemeteries since I was a kid......in high school, my older sister, a guy in the neighborhood and I would spend all weekend exploring cemeteries....going deep into the woods where long ago communities had been abandoned....we would explore the very old and the new.....I'm 75 now and still exploring....cemeteries hold so much history....I have never found it depressing. It's more like bring that person back for just a while and learning about their life,,,,,,,,thank you for your journeys and all your research.