Brother Jonathan Cemetery commemorates the lives lost on July 30, 1865 aboard the sidewheeler vessel Brother Jonathan, which was headed from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon.

Conflicting facts surround the reasons for the vessel's sinking, which left only 19 survivors aboard a single lifeboat. The ship was carrying a number of political and entertainment dignitaries at the time of its sinking, including the company of a traveling circus. It was also holding freshly-minted military payroll coins that convert to an amount in the millions in modern currency.

Today, the site contains the final resting places of 170 of the ship's crew and passengers, with a public memorial dedicated to their loss located at Point St. George's Reef.

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