Photo by New Orleans Lady April 1, 2012
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This blog is for those who are interested in genealogy, history, preservation, transcriptions, photographs, and cemetery law in Louisiana. It is intended as a place of public collaboration for the preservation of our state cemeteries.
Promoting awareness is the first step to preservation.
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If you believe you have found an abandoned cemetery, please contact the
Division of Archaeology at 225-342-8170 or archaeology@crt.la.gov.
Promoting awareness is the first step to preservation.
If you are interested in contributing to the blog please use the form here or email louisianacemeteries@yahoo.com for more information.
Thank you for visiting!
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.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
New Orleans 1882 Cemeteries and Internments
Jewell's digest of the city ordinances:
together with the constitutional provisions, acts of the General Assembly and decisions of the courts relative to the government of the City of New Orleans (Google eBook), New Orleans, Louisiana, L. Graham & Son, 1882 
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tolendano Street Cemetery - Unknown cemetery Orleans Parish
Does anyone have any idea about the history around S. Tonti Street in New Orleans? Here is a map from 1895 that illustrates a cemetery on the Illinois Central American Railroad just above S. Tonti and likely within a 1/4 mile of that street.
The map is 116 years old and the area has changed BUT the streets below the cemetery have not changed names. There are many street name changes in New Orleans over the past 100 years or so. The location of 4th Street was critical in placing the cemetery on a modern day Google map near a railroad. There are many cemeteries to the NORTH and EAST and WEST of this location. I just love old maps. A little farther Northeast would place the cemetery at the Superdome. I just don't know the name of this cemetery and cant seem to find it anywhere.
The map is 116 years old and the area has changed BUT the streets below the cemetery have not changed names. There are many street name changes in New Orleans over the past 100 years or so. The location of 4th Street was critical in placing the cemetery on a modern day Google map near a railroad. There are many cemeteries to the NORTH and EAST and WEST of this location. I just love old maps. A little farther Northeast would place the cemetery at the Superdome. I just don't know the name of this cemetery and cant seem to find it anywhere.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Above ground grave, Kemp Cemetery, Washington Parish, Louisiana
1st Lt. William Turner, CSA, 9th Louisiana Infantry, Co. I
Friday, November 11, 2011
Holt Cemetery - Updated and contrasted Photographs
The above image, from flicker user anthonyturducken , was taken this November. It is a great contrast to the 2003 image from flickr user, New Orleans Lady. You may notice that the tree to the left in the 2003 photo no longer appears in the 2011 photo. What a difference! See more of Holt cemetery photos from anthonyturducken here.
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