The Buildings of Oakland, with a Section on Piedmont by Robert C. Bernhardi

Joe Shoong, Chinese immigrant and founder of the National Dollar Stores chain.

Ingemar Henry Lundquist, mechanical engineer, and inventor of over the wire balloon angioplasty.

Kaiser, father of modern American shipbuilding

Domingo Ghirardelli, namesake of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company.

Peter Folger, American coffee heir, socialite.

Charles Crocker, railroad magnate, banker.

Anthony Chabot, father of hydraulic mining and benefactor of Chabot Space & Science Center.

Bechtel, industrialist, founder of the Bechtel company The Crocker mausoleum on Millionaire's Row Hammond, Speaker of the California State Assembly (January - May 1852) and former U.S. Perkins, Governor of California (1880–1883) U.S.

George Pardee, Governor of California (1903–1907).

Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (1875).

Samuel Merritt, early Mayor of Oakland.

English, US Representative (D) California

Coles Bashford, Governor of Wisconsin and Arizona Territory politician.

Washington Bartlett, Mayor of San Francisco (1882–1884), Governor of California (1887).

There are many notable people interred in Mountain View many are local figures in California history, but others have achieved wider fame. View of the cemetery from Charles Crocker's tomb

Because of this, and its beautiful setting, the cemetery is a tourist draw, and tours led by docents began in 1970. Many of California's important historical figures, drawn by Olmsted's reputation, are buried here, and there are many grandiose crypts in tribute to the wealthy, especially along the ridge section with a view across the Bay to the San Francisco skyline, known as 'Millionaires' Row'. Mountain View was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who also designed New York City's Central Park and much of UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

The association they formed still operates the cemetery today. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859. The Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre (91 ha) rural cemetery in Oakland, California, United States.

The Buildings of Oakland, with a Section on Piedmont by Robert C. Bernhardi