Nicknamed the 'City of the Silent' because its 17 cemeteries make the dead far outnumber the living residents source
Community character
Colma is a tiny town on the San Francisco Peninsula built around its cemeteries, which cover roughly three-quarters of its land after San Francisco relocated most of its dead here in the early 1900s. source
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Cemetery established in 1892, among the oldest and largest in the town source