Copperopolis Community Center: Copperopolis Cemetery

The Copperopolis Community Center

The CCC (Copperopolis Community Center was officially established January 19,1940 as a non-profit corporation to promote activities that benefited the community by a group of volunteers comprised of founding families and residents of Copperopolis. Through the efforts of the CCC two publicly owned buildings in Copperopolis have been preserved; the Armory and the brick Congregational Church, and both buildings have the honor of being recognized on the National Register of Historic Places and the California Register of Historical Resources. In addition, the CCC strives to preserve historical archives, artifacts, and has developed a Copperopolis history program for the local Copperopolis Elementary School.

The CCC is comprised of community volunteers, including a seven-member Board of Directors and individual, family and business sponsors. If you would like to become a CCC sponsor click HERE to download a printable PDF form.

The cemetery is actually four cemeteries in one. Four-foot high stone-laid walls separate the Masonic, Odd Fellows, People’s Protestant, and Catholic areas. Anyone who lives in Copperopolis can be buried here free of charge.
There is one headstone famous for its epitaph.
It reads as follows:

"Stop traveler and cast an eye

As you are now so once was I

As I am now so you must be

Therefore prepare to follow me.

Prepare for death make no delay

In my bloom was snatched away

When death did call me to depart

I left my friends with aching heart."

This excerpt from the History of Copperopolis courtesy of the “School Tour” notes by Linda Beck, with permission taken directly from "Tools Are On The Bar" by Charlie and Rhoda Stone.