Aquatic Park Tombstones

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city’s Gold Rush dead. In order to build a new, swimmer-friendly waterfront on the bay, San Francisco looked to an unusual building supply they just happened to have lying around: Gold Rush era tombstones. San Francisco’s Aquatic Park was created on one of the city’s most significant portions of the waterfront – a packed and bustling neighborhood from the city’s earliest days until the destruction of the 1906 earthquake conveniently cleared the way for new building.