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Plaque at St Louis Cemetery No. 1, the oldest still existing (extant) cemetery in New Orleans. The Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans, New Orleans, United States, are a group of forty-two cemeteries that are historically and culturally significant.
Four major factors guided the evolution of the New Orleans cemetery: (a) the high South Louisiana water table; (b) a need to conserve land in a growing city surrounded by water; (c) French, Spanish, and Caribbean traditions of aboveground burial and tomb building; and (d) neoclassical and Victorian architectural fashions that prevailed during ...
7 Φεβ 2013 · Opened in 1789, the Saint Louis Cemetery #1 is New Orleans’ oldest city of the dead. Despite its dryly numerical name, more than 600 fascinating tombs line maze-like narrow walkways,...
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest and among the most prominent cemeteries in New Orleans. It was opened in 1789, replacing the city's older St. Peter Cemetery (French: Cimetière St. Peter; no longer in existence) as the main burial ground when the city was redesigned after a fire in 1788.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, established by Spanish royal decree on August 14, 1789, is the oldest existing cemetery in New Orleans. It was built to replace St. Peter Street Cemetery, which had long been overcrowded.
26 Φεβ 2024 · St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the city’s oldest burial ground still in existence, and people continue to be buried in its tombs. During the first decades of New Orleans’s development, colonists buried their dead just inside the back wall of the settlement, in the block bounded by Toulouse, Burgundy, St. Louis, and Rampart Streets.
Welcome to the New Orleans Cemetery Database, an online resource providing free access to digitized versions of cemetery-related records housed at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
