Pescadero
Located on the top of the hill above Pescadero on Stage Road just North of North Street, Saint Anthony's Cemetery dates back to 1883. Halloween weekend was a great time to visit, There were pumpkins, orange flower arrangements and even a few more creative decorations throughout the cemetery, brightening up what is generally a dry pioneer cemetery.
“In 1833, Don Juan Jose Gonzales received the Rancho Pescadero, or San Antonio, as it was officially known, from Governor Figueroa…On June 10th, 1868, James McCormick, Sr. furnished a sum of money to purchase a lot for the Catholic Church (William McCormick and Eli D. Moore procured the catholic cemetery there in 1876) (1).
You will find some of the early settlers on the coast here. Among them the Brazils, the Moores, the McCormicks and the Smiths. This is still an active cemetery so you will also find new burials. Look around for a few very creative tombstones (surely subject to copyright restrictions).
St. Anthony's Church is located nearby on North Street.
- Saint Anthony's Cemetery is part of the Diocese of San Francisco.
- Find - A Grave - Saint Anthony's lists 130 burials with 93% photographed
- Flickr - St. Anthony's Cemetery
- Pescadero
- A Cemetery of Naked Ladies in Pescadero CA
Saint Anthony’s Cemetery
Stage Road
Pescadero, CA 94060
(650) 712-1679 - Office Hours by Appointment Only - Cemetery Hours 8 a.m. to Sunset
| Latitude: 37.2589, Longitude: -122.3819 |
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 1577
Colma, CA 940l4-0577
Colma, CA 940l4-0577
Find-A-Grave - Mt. Hope lists 318 burials with 96% photographed
(1) Taken from the 100 years commemorative booklet published in 1968 for Our Lady of the Pillar Parish and St. Anthony’s Mission Church
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