Nevada County GenWeb
Historic Cemeteries

Links to Nevada County Tombstone Inventories and tombstone photos
The above links takes you to a website sponsored by RootsWeb and researched by Karen Dryer and her late husband Justin. Many photos of Nevada County cemeteries and markers. There is an index. This site won the "Golden Tomb" Award for excellence.
Cemeteries included in the GenWeb Archives:
| North San Juan Protestant Cemetery |
| Old Rough and Ready Cemetery |
| Pioneer Cemetery |
| Red Dog Cemetery |

Cemeteries: Sierra Mountain and Catholic Cemetery tombstone transcriptions with index and some photos taken by Marilou West Ficklin between 1994 and 1997. These are taken from the website "EarlyTruckee Records" at the Westerly-Journeys web site (www.westerly-journeys.com).

List of Nevada County Cemeteries
The following list contains many of the Nevada County Historic Cemeteries.
Note: (There could
be others that have not been documented, so if you know of such a cemetery,
please send the name of the cemetery, name of the family or person buried
there, and the exact location, so it can be added to this listing and
given to the Cemetery Board of Directors.)
Note: This is just a list of cemetery locations--no inventories of burials or tombstones are listed here. (For inventories see the above link to the rootsweb site or the link to the GenWeb Archives.
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Exact locations of the cemeteries (shown below) are given (as near as possible) so
that you can visit. (Since this is a very rural county, it might be
best to contact the Cemetery District Office before attempting to visit
(address and telephone number below).
| Clear Creek Cemetery
Mc Courtney Road, Grass Valley |
| French Corral Cemetery Pleasant Valley Road, French Corral |
| Graniteville Cemetery Graniteville Road, Graniteville |
| Grass Valley Jewish Cemetery 2nd Street, Grass Valley |
| Indian Springs Cemetery Indian Springs Road at Spenceville Road, Penn Valley |
| Loney Cemetery Sandford Ranch, Mc Courtney Road, Grass Valley |
| Maidu Tribal Burying Grounds Cement Hill Road & Garden Road, Nevada City |
| Masonic Cemetery (part of the New Elm Ridge Cemetery) Bennett Street at Kidder Avenue Grass Valley CA; the Masonic section is on the right as you drive into the cemetery, and is well marked) |
| Meadow Lake
Summit City Cemetery Henness Pass Road and White Rock Road |
| Moores Flat Cemetery Graniteville Rd at Morres Flat Road (hard to find - advise escort) |
| Nevada City Jewish Cemetery King Hirem Way, Nevada City |
| Nevada County Cemetery Willow Valley Road, Nevada City |
| North San Juan North Bloomfield Cemetery Malakoff Diggins State Park |
| North San Juan Catholic Cemetery State Hwy 49, North San Juan |
| Pioneer Cemetery Top of East Broad St.,Nevada City. This is most likely the first cemetry in Nevada City |
| Omega Cemetery Alpha Omega Road (off State Hwy 20) |
| Penn Valley Cemetery Penn Valley Drive, Penn Valley |
| Pioneer Cemetery (behind 433 Broad Street) Nevada City |
| Pleasant Valley Cemetery Pleasant Valley Road at Bitney Springs Road |
| Protestant Cemetery State Hwy 49 at Cemetery Road, North San Juan |
| Red Dog
Cemetery You Bet Road near Red Dog Road, Nevada City |
| Relief Hill Cemetery Relief Hill Road (off Tyler Foote Road, past North Bloomfield Cemetery) |
| Rough and Ready Cemetery Stagecoach Road, Rough and Ready |
| Sweetland Cemetery Pleasant Valley Road at Sweetland Road |
| Tyler Foote Cherokee Township Cemetery Tyler Foote Road |
| You Bet Cemetery You Bet Road near Red Dog Road, Nevada City |
| Washington Cemetery State Highway 20, town of Washington |
| Willow Valley Cemetery (Old Nevada Co Hospital Cemetery), Lewis Road, Nevada City |


| Forest View Cemetery, Red Dog Road, Nevada City |
| Greenwood Memorial Gardens, Rough and Ready Highway, Grass Valley. |
| New Elm Ridge Cemetery, Bennett Street to Kidder Avenue, Grass Valley. |
| Pine Grove Cemetery, Red Dog Road, Nevada City |
| Sierra Memorial Lawn, Hollow Way, Nevada City. |

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