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The Funeral Pyre is a large stone structure in Joaquin Miller Park. Poet Joaquin Miller built the structure in 1898 and intended for his remains to be cremated there, but that didn't happen. Instead, his ashes were scattered at the site.
scattering of ashes
Links and References
- "Joaquin Miller Has Built His Own Funeral Pyre," San Francisco Call, October 9, 1898 0137.pdf
- "A Private Olympus," Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, May 1900
- "Joaquin Miller's Ashes From Pyre," San Francisco Call, May 16, 1913
