Pioneer Cemetery

Also called Coloma Protestant Cemetery, Sutter’s Mill Cemetery, and Vineyard House Cemetery, this burial ground is the final resting place for many ’49ers. Among the graves are the remains of miners, farmers, merchants, tradesmen and their families, as well as murderers and prostitutes. It contains an estimated 400–500 graves, many of them unmarked because the wooden markers disappeared long ago. The oldest existing gravestone is dated 1850. The site was also the place of the famous double hanging of convicted murderers Jerry Crane and Mickey Free in 1855.

Coloma, California · United States