"Kulma" a quiet town in California, an area of about two miles square and live1700 citizens and more than a million and a half dead. Most of the population living in theseCity who are silent where their ancestors lived and died, but where most of the neighborhoods now notThey can spend the rest of their lives there.In 1900 the city of San Francisco was crowded city of the dead, during theThe discovery of gold in terms of that period called the gold rush, where the influx of Elia minersTraders and immigrants from all over the world are here in search of a better life, bringing with themBelongings without losing sight of the mobile and infectious illnesses rising cases of death is very largeAs it is within a short time was the establishment of 27 private cemetery workers what they consideredPose a health risk and, most importantly of all, these graves eat up a very large proportion ofReal estate space. In 1902 the prohibition of the City Council and the Council of the county supervisorsMore burial in the city and forced the major cemeteries such as "Laurel Hill" and "CemeterySkull "to transport their dead outside the city and struggled the rest of the graves in the preservation of their dead inRest for a few decades until 1942 until it was closed and remained to maintain the graves onlyIt is the National Cemetery in San Francisco and Mission Cemetery "Dolores" which still remain toBut today is not taking in new burial.
Was moved more than 150 thousand bodies from San Francisco to a small town, "Kulma"Which it was established in 1892, in what the archbishop, "Patrick Riordan," decided to create aA new tomb in the Valley five miles south of the city in a small field ofPotatoes, where it was blessing as a new Catholic cemetery and because of that has been the inclusion of theseThe city as the only city in the world where the number of the dead outnumber the living.Throughout its entire history has never been the number of neighborhoods outnumber the dead. Today it isHome to about 1,800 people alive and more than 1.5 million asleep sleep eternally buried in17 enormous cemetery. And a large number of dead is rising it is estimated that75 new body link to "Kulma" every day from the city of San Francisco.
The city epithet "Kulma" by many names, such as the silent city, City of the Dead, CityLives and many others also that this city is the eternal home of many of the charactersKnown where they were buried, such as the myth of gambling in the Wild West "to Aumann WyattEarp "and baseball legend" Joe DiMaggio. "
