This photograph was found in the archive from the old Louisiana Cemetery Preservation NING and was used as someone's profile picture and labled Faust Cemetery.
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Faust Cemetery in Ouachita Parish was reported to Saving Graves in July 2000 as being endangered, abandoned, with serious encroachment issues i.e. a home was being built on top of the cemetery.
LAGenWeb transcription:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/cemeteries/faust.txt
Contacted Sheriff, Regional Dept. Arch. and AG office.
Link to Find A Grave headstone photos Faust Cemetery by Marlon Ebey.
Link to report
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Louisiana Cemetery Preservation
If you believe you have found an abandoned cemetery, please contact the
Division of Archaeology at 225-342-8170 or archaeology@crt.la.gov.