Oro Grande Cemetery, located near Route 66 in Oro Grande, Calif., received a $15,000 grant from San Bernardino County for improvements, according to a story posted on Best Syndication.
“This funding will allow construction of a parking area and decorative fence that will beautify the cemetery and create an appropriate gateway to the site,” Mitzelfelt tells Best Syndication.
The county will build a parking lot and decorative fence. Before any improvements were planned last year, the county used ground-penetrating radar to determine the number and location of the grave sites. This gave planners a suitable location for the parking lot and fence.
Several photos of the cemetery can be found on the Find A Grave site. According to the site, the town was founded in 1852 and is one of the earliest-settled communities in the county. About 130 people are interred at the cemetery, many of them workers at a nearly cement plant. The site is registered as a state Historic Point of Interest.
Interment.net includes several photos and a listing of those buried there. The last person to be buried there was in 1977.
American Ghost Towns also features several photos. Here’s a photo of the cemetery on Flickr.