Kulma quiet American city in California, with an area of five kilometers, but did you know the cause of calm and tranquility is not normal? No wonder, it is the city of the dead, and an estimated 1.5 million people dead in 1800 versus only! So what makes the city Kulma abuzz with this huge number of the dead in exchange for a small number of the population?
In 1900 the city of San Francisco was crowded with the dead, with the influx of gold miners and traders workers brought with them diseases in their search for a better life, raising the number of the dead, and therefore the number of graves to 27 cemetery. And it became the presence of the dead is a health hazard, and the cemeteries became occupy a large area of San Francisco.
By 1902, the city banned the burial of any dead where, as demanded by major cemeteries transfer their dead outside the city, grew struggle to keep the dead in their place of origin. But in 1940, no stock and only Mcyprtan in San Francisco.
The transfer of the remains of more than 150 thousand dead from San Francisco to a small town called Kulma, there archbishop "Patrick Riordan," he decided to create a new cemetery south of the city. Kulma today is the only city listed in the world, where the number of the dead than the living!
Throughout history, not only in the city of the dead, but today is home to 1800 people, compared with more than a million dead, distributed in 17 large cemetery. Kulma serves as a cemetery for San Francisco, which receives daily 75 dead.
Kulma title several titles, including the city of silence or the city of the dead, which is the final resting place of many historical figures, including "Levi Strauss" the founder of the famous Levi's company.
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