The Amador City Cemetery's first internment was in 1851 and its last was in 1892. More graves lie there than the marble headstones indicate, because some graves were never marked and others were marked with hand-carved wooden markers. During the 1950s, the city hired a person to clear weeds and brush from the cemetery, and that person used fire as a faster method, destroying all of the wooden markers in the process. The very rocky ground often prevented ordinary grave digging, so dynamite was frequently used. Before the curb and fence were erected around 1915, soil washed down from Church Street, where the Methodist Church stood at the corner of Church Street and O’Neil Alley northwest of the cemetery, and this buildup of dirt partially covered some headstones in the northwest section.