[4][5] Burials in the 19th-century were not always safe, and as urban graveyards such as Golden Gate Cemetery were running out of space so they had stopped using coffins, and bodies were placed directly into the sandy soil.

[6][7] Many of the graves were for city immigrants from Italy, Japan and France; poor and working-class people; and it featured a section as a Chinese burial ground.

[3] Notable burials included politicians Patrick Watson Tompkins and Edward Wilson McGaughey; both of whom were re-interred from Yerba Buena Cemetery.

[2][12][13] In 1993, the Legion of Honor Museum was renovating and during excavation near Lands End they discovered 700 bodies, and it is believed that there are many more still buried under the Lincoln Park Golf Course.

[14] Some of the remaining artifact from the time of the graveyard still at Lincoln Park, include the Kong Chow funerary structure and the Ladies’ Seaman's Friend Society bronze obelisk monument.