Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery, Calistoga, Napa County, CA

Submitted by Rebecca Garrlentini July 2005

Very nice cemetery and well maintained. Lots of shade trees, walkable dirt paths lead to burials 
up the hillside of the cemetery. Has a plot map and burial name list onsite.There also appears to 
be a whole section of the cemetery just for civil war GAR burials. Very nice and will send you a 
few photos of that section as well later.Limited parking and foothill blvd is a busy road, so be careful 
when backing out of cemetery if one decides to park in the driveway of cemetery. These photos 
were taken on Fathers Day June 19, 2005 by myself.
 
There is also another cemetery in Calistoga called the "Pioneer Cemetery" and is often confused 
by out of towners with this one we learned from locals. Even though the sign to this one says 
Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery, the locals call it the "Old Pioneer Cemetery." They said that clears 
up the confusion pretty nicely for most folks. 

Photos:

Calistoga-Pioneer-History - History of the Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery on Page 3 of 5 from the 
Calistoga Chamber of Commerce booklet.

Calistoga-Pioneer-Entrance - Entrance Photo of the Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery

Calistoga-Pioneer-SignFront - Sign of the Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery (NOTE: Front view means 
Sign is facing Foothill Blvd)

Calistoga-Pioneer-Plaque - Plaque located in the Cemetery. Very interesting information on the 
plaque. This plaque Is located near the map & name burial list onsite in the cemetery to the left 
side of the cemetery as one walks into the cemetery. 

Calistoga-Pioneer-SignRear - This is a photo of the rear view of the Cemetery sign. The cemetery 
sign was donated by the " Native daugthers of The Golden West " # 145 organization. It appears 
this organization has a great deal of interest in this cemetery as upon my visit there, I saw many 
other items in the cemetery in which they donated. 
This organizations website link http://www.ndgw.org/  

Calistoga-Pioneer-Locator1 - This is the Bulletin Broad as one enters the cemetery. 
On the Left side of this bulletin broad shows the map of the cemetery including plots and sections. 
See Photo # 2 for a view of that.

Calistoga-Pioneer-Locator2 - This is a view of the Map of the cemetery as mentioned above. On the 
Right side of the bulletin broad, is has a list of names of people buried there and the location of where 
they are buried in the cemetery. See Photo # 3 for a view of that.

Calistoga-Pioneer-Locator3 - This is a name burial/location list as mentioned above. 
NOTE ~ The Napa County Genealogical Society has booklets for a small donation on copies of the 
names burial list which is shown in this photo. Below is the link to their website which mentions that 
information.
http://www.napanet.net/~nvgbs/publish.html 

Calistoga-Pioneer-View-01 - The cemetery as you can see from the Entrance photo I already sent to 
you has a right side to it and a left side to it, and then there are many different dirt paths on both sides 
of the cemetery that wide upwards to the top of the hill with even more burials at the top of the hill, with 
the Bulletin Broad at the base entrance of the cemetery. This photo is taken from Foothill Blvd. looking 
inwards to the right side of the cemetery entrance.

Calistoga-Pioneer-View-Veterans - This photo is again on the right side of the cemetery once inside the 
cemetery. See the flag pole with flags on it? This is the start of the Veterans Section of the cemetery. 
I saw mostly WWI & WWII Vet tombstones starting here. Then this section merges into civil war 
markers are mentioned below in Photo # 3.

Calistoga-Pioneer-View-Civil-War-Vet - This is again on the right side of the cemetery, still inside the 
cemetery in the Veterans Section of the cemetery, but here is where I started to see lots of Civil War 
Markers with mental GAR poles markers beside many of them in the ground next to the tombstone. 
This is the Civil War Section of the cemetery as mention above.

Note ~ Again, dirt pathways from the bottom of the right side of the cemetery, wind themselves 
upwards towards the top of the hill where more burials where from the right side of the cemetery. 

Calistoga-Pioneer-ViewLeft-1 - This photo is standing on Foothill Blvd. looking inward to the cemetery.

 
Calistoga-Pioneer-ViewLeft-2 - This photo is also of the Left side of the cemetery once inside the 
cemetery. The left side of the cemetery appeared to be more family group burials than the right side of 
the cemetery

Calistoga-Pioneer-ViewLeft-3 - This is again another photo of the Left side of the cemetery going 
upwards now towards the top of the hill. Again, I started to view more family groups burials, mostly 
in family plots such as this one is.