Here are a few pictures I took the other day of the Brichetto tomb in Tracy. This tomb was built in 1912 for the Brichetto family of Tracy. During this time the Brichetto family owned much of the land around Tracy. The tomb is located in the hills south of Tracy above the Tracy Golf Course. There is not much to see though its just a about 1/2 acre square with a wrought iron fence all the way around it and the tomb in the middle. The fence and the tomb are in good condition for being so old. 
Located in the hills near the Tracy Golf Course
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The Stewart Iron Works Company
The Stewart Iron Works Company sure makes a fine fence. I would guess from this seal that the wrought iron fence that surrounds the tomb was built around the same time as the tomb in 1912. Its still very sturdy. Whets neat is that the company that built the fence is still in business today. They have been in business since 1888.
Found on TAGS website(Tracy Area Genealogical Society website)
Tags website
"According to the provisions of the will of G. Joseph Brichetto, this one acre private family cemetery was established in 1916 on a hilltop overlooking the vast lands of the Brichetto estate. Immigrants from Italy, G. Joseph, a pioneer farmer and merchant, and his wife, Luigia (Canale) Brichetto, settled in the Banta area in the 1870s.The cemetery contains a granite and marble mausoleum, built in the Grecian Doric style, with twelve crypts for Brichetto family members. Mr. and Mrs. Brichetto were the parents of seven children, four of whom are interred with their parents in the mausoleum." Check out more here
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