Folsom is unique among the cities we serve in being built out of the same material that families mark their loved ones with. Granite quarried in Folsom went into foundations and facades across historic Sacramento, and the stonecutters who worked it are buried a few miles away.
This means memorial work in Folsom has a particular nature. Older rows are marked with stone hand-carved by people who worked granite for a living, and a modern monument dropped next to them without any consideration reads as an outsider immediately. Matching those rows is carving work, and it is the reason for our design and relief departments.
Every memorial comes with engraving, a complimentary design before production commences, a porcelain photo on request, and pricing with engraving, shipping and sales tax already included. Delivery is anywhere between one and six months according to the type of carving involved. Each stone is covered by a lifetime guarantee, and veterans and first responders receive exclusive discounts.
Lakeside Cemetery Folsom CA and the Historic Rows on Scott Street
Lakeside Cemetery and Mausoleum is the primary cemetery in Folsom, with the district office on Forrest Street and the cemetery itself on Scott Street. People looking for lakeside cemetery folsom, lakeside cemetery folsom ca, folsom cemetery and cemetery in folsom ca all end up at the same place.
It covers a vast array of periods. Gold Rush and post-Gold Rush burials sit beside sections opened within the last generation, and the design language shifts radically between them. In the historic sections you will find obelisks, draped urns, scroll tops and hand-cut lettering that no sandblast stencil can reproduce. In the newer lawn sections you will find dimensional caps and flat markers only.
Our approach in both cases is the same. Send us daylight photographs of the neighbouring monuments to begin with. That allows us to identify the period, the top profile, the lettering weight and the surface treatment, and to tell you which granite belongs in that row. In the historic sections we usually recommend a matte or steeled finish instead of a polish, since a mirror surface among nineteenth-century stone reads as a correction rather than a continuation.
Families searching folsom historic cemetery are usually looking at those same older sections, and they are also where our recut lettering work makes the greatest sense. Reproducing a hand-cut Victorian letterform is not about choosing a font. It is carving.
Cemetery in Folsom CA and the Surrounding Grounds We Work With
Besides Lakeside, Folsom families bury across a wide area. Green Valley Mortuary and Cemetery covers the foothills east towards Rescue and El Dorado Hills. Mount Vernon Memorial Park and the Sylvan Cemetery District are west in Citrus Heights, the Roseville Public Cemetery District is north on Berry Street, and East Lawn operates grounds on Folsom Boulevard and Greenback Lane. For veterans and eligible spouses, the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery near Dixon provides a government marker free of charge, carrying rank, branch, war and dates only.
Every cemetery imposes its own limits on monument height, base width, granite thickness, permitted finishes and foundation construction. We obtain those in writing from the cemetery office and handle the permits ourselves, so families are not negotiating rules during the hardest month of their lives.
If you have not signed a plot contract yet, tell us your options. What a cemetery permits usually decides the choice before price does.
Granite Headstones and Grave Stone Colours You Need to See in Person
A headstones granite near me search has special meaning in this climate. Foothill summers reach past 100°F with extreme ultraviolet exposure, and wet winters let water into any porous material. Marble softens and loses all its carved detail. Limestone absorbs water and shatters from inside. Composite and resin materials chalk and delaminate within a few years. Granite withstands everything, and every memorial we produce is covered by a lifetime warranty.
Granite also photographs very poorly, which is why we ask families to book a visit. Indian Black Premium looks nearly violet under studio lighting and perfectly black on a sunlit lawn. Blue Pearl and Volga Blue change colour as you walk past them, since the crystal catches light from different angles. Indian Aurora, Impala Grey and Indian Red read differently again beneath exactly the same lettering.
Our granite headstones range covers all of it. Black granite is the only material that carries an etched portrait at photographic quality and holds fine script. Grey is the matching granite, and in the older Lakeside sections it is selected more often than any other. Red suits white-filled lettering. The blues are for a family that wants a grave stone resembling no other in the row. Send us a daylight photograph of any stone you want to match and we will compare samples against it.
Flat Grave Markers, Upright Headstones and Bench Headstone Formats
The grave markers headstones vocabulary confuses nearly everybody, so let us explain it plainly. A marker lies at or just above the turf and is read directly from above, while a headstone rises above grade and is read from the path. Both are permanent granite, and the cemetery section defines which one is acceptable.
Flat grave markers and bevel burial markers fit the toughest lawn rules and are the most economical route to a permanent granite memorial. Slant markers raise the face without adding height, and our premium slants with rock-pitched edges and carved panels cost around $6,516. Upright headstones provide the largest inscribed area and space for carved emblems, an etched portrait and a surname across the top. Ledgers and half ledgers cover the grave, while companion monuments carry two names on one stone.
A bench headstone changes how a plot is used, since visitors sit rather than stand, and it turns a grave into somewhere people stay.
Besides these formats we design memorial sculptures, carved reliefs, memorial enclosures and railings, memorial landscaping and full luxury memorial complexes, as well as Asian, angel, floral, child and pet ranges.
How Much Does a Headstone Cost in Folsom CA
How much does a headstone cost is the hardest question for families to ask, so let us make it simple. The price depends on format, size, granite colour and the amount of carving, etching or sculpture. Portraits, reliefs, vases and cremation chambers increase it, and cemetery foundation requirements sometimes do too.
Upright memorials in the current collection range from $2,351 for a rosary cross and dove carving, through $3,373 for a heart silhouette with cross, dove and roses and $3,850 for a luxury heart shape upright, to $5,400 for a cross, roses and dual vase design and $8,160 for the eagle and flag monument. Premium slants cost around $6,516. Heritage matching and sculptural commissions are quoted individually.
Engraving, shipping and sales tax are already included.
Affordable Headstones Near Me and How to Pay
There is a difference between affordable grave markers and cheap grave markers, and it emerges around the seventh year. Cheap grave markers are cheap because something has been subtracted: the thickness of the stone, the depth of the carving, a substitute material, or a lettering fee added at the end. Affordable headstones near me should mean full-thickness granite, carving deep enough to withstand decades of foothill sun, a lifetime guarantee and a price quoted once.
Klarna financing runs up to 24 months, and 0% in-house payment plans are available to families not willing to use a third party. Veterans and first responders get exclusive discounts, and the memorial design quiz offers 10% off.
Headstones for Sale in Folsom CA and How to Start
Searching headstones for sale online is a reasonable first step, but granite is not a material for screens, and beside a hand-cut nineteenth-century row it is a poor purchase. Book a visit and see the material in daylight.
You provide the details: the full name letter by letter, the dates, a photograph for an etched portrait or ceramic medallion, a religious emblem, a service record, a short epitaph. Our designers then return a complimentary design, showing the family how the memorial will look before production starts. We confirm each character, and only after that do we start carving, since granite is a document and a misspelling is permanent.
We serve Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Granite Bay, Orangevale, Rancho Cordova, Gold River and Roseville. Whether you need a single tombstone grave marker, a companion memorial for two, a headstone for graves in an established family row, cemetery headstones for a family plot, or a gravestone for a plot waiting years for a permanent memorial, call us at +1 888 248 6813 or email sales@remembranceheadstones.com.
A gravestone is the one memorial a family commissions once, for somebody they can no longer ask anything. Take your time.
