JACKSON PIONEER CEMETERY

Location
East of Church Street and off
Cemetery Lane, northeast of
Downtown Jackson (see map on
back
)
Hours Open
Half-hour before Sunrise
to
Half-hour past Sunset
everyday

A PIONEER CEMETERY

The community of Jackson has given more than 150 years of care to the pioneer Jackson City Cemetery and those who rest here. The graves amongst the old trees that grace the original burial hill reflect the peace and reverence bestowed by civic responsibility.

Today, the new landscaped areas expand this beauty and provide
reasonably priced gravesites for the 21st century. Our Citys pride in its public cemetery is a commitment to tradition and perpetual care.

In 1854, the newly founded city of Jackson gave formal recognition to the public graveyard along Church Street. The Catholics too, about this time, chose an adjacent area to the north for a cemetery, as did the Chinese to the south and the Jews to the east. Next to come were the sculptors and artisans and the Marble and Granite Works to the west on Church Street.

At rest within these sacred grounds, as signs at the cemeterys entrances indicate, ...rest many of the men and women who first saw the beauty and value of this land and chose to remain and build the Amador County we cherish today. Among them are U.S. Senators, heroes of wars of two centuries, victims of mine disasters, statesmen, doctors, ranchers and others our pioneers whom we
reverentially honor in this cemetery.

The Jackson City Cemetery is dedicated to the people of the community - of yesterday, today and tomorrow. You are welcome to visit it. It is intended to meet your needs whether they be of history, genealogy, a reverential visit or a gravesite.