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Colma, California

San Mateo County · Population 1,507 · Card no. 10080

A town where the dead outnumber the living by roughly a thousand to one, founded as a necropolis for San Francisco.

San Francisco banned new burials in 1900 and evicted existing cemeteries, which moved here.
Around 1,500 people and 1.5 million graves share the town.
Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio are buried here.

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