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Feature story: A walk through Holy Cross

Original post made on Oct 6, 2014

Menlo Park's Holy Cross Cemetery contains much of the Midpeninsula's history within its gates.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 3, 2014, 3:42 PM

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Posted by Xipe Totec
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Oct 6, 2014 at 1:41 pm

"The cemetery was a nonsectarian town graveyard until the Catholic Church purchased it in 1872. When it was consecrated in 1883, Mr. Svanevik said, the Protestant residents of the cemetery were moved to its perimeters." [portion deleted.]


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