Day: April 10, 2004

Emperor Norton I
Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
1859 – 1880
Joshua Abraham Norton
Jan 17, 1811 – Jan 8th, 1880

Our nation’s only Emperor lived right here in San Francisco, knew Mark Twain, stopped a race riot, abolished the Republican and Democratic parties, and declared the need for what is now called the Bay Bridge.

• Woodlawn Memorial Park is at 1000 El Camino Real,
  Colma, CA 94014
• This discordian site claims Norton is at Greenlawn Cemetery and not Woodlawn Cemetary
• Terraserver map of the cemetery – from the USGS
• another Terraserver map, this time from “citipix”
• GPS coordinates: 37.8797, -122.5011 (hddd.dddd) according to Find A Grave
• listing at findagrave.com and the entry which includes images of the grave site