Carquinez Cemetery
This 25 acre burial ground, with its gently rolling hills, is now an aging and deteriorating relic. The land on which the cemetery sits was donated to the city of Vallejo by John Frisbie in 1857, the son-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. This early gift of land provided a site for the town's earliest burials.
The main path of the cemetery is evident and walkable, but other pathways are now overgrown with prickly knee-high star thistle, wild mustard, and tar weed, making the search for grave sites somtimes uncomfortable. Many once-tall monuments are now broken, indecipherable, or missing. Occasionally, however, a fresh bouquet of flowers or weeded family plot provides evidence that someone still cares.