Cemeteries of San Diego - Hardcoverby Seth Mallios (Author), David M. Caterino (Author), San Diego County Gravestone Project (Author) San Diego has a rich and unique cultural history that can be effectively told through the commemoration of its dead. Local cemeteries throughout the city reflect San Diego's multiethnic cultural dynamism and pinpoint marked shifts in power from Native American to Spanish to Mexican to American governance. They also reveal the current struggle for space