Inyo County Hospital and Farm Burial Site in Big Pine, California

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Get directions 549 West Crocker Ave.
Big Pine, California 93513 United States

Coordinates: 37.16763, -118.29848
(760) 938-2741
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Around the 1900's, Inyo County, California provided a County Hospital and working farm on 80 acres in Big Pine. The purpose of the farm was to help people who had fallen on hard times be self-sufficient and provide medical care. The County Farm was still in use as both a Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Home for the aged in the 1940s. The building was eventually converted into the Big Pine Care Center which was in use until 2000.
The resident's exact burial spots are unknown, however in 2022, the Big Pine Cemetery District placed permanent grave markers (cenotaphs) to acknowledge the residents who died and were buried at the Farm Cemetery. Sources for the names added were obtained from newspaper clippings and county death certificates.