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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in New Orleans or Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Official Website New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broad...
This cemetery is located on 10400 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, Louisiana. Find a Grave
St. Vincent De Paul Cemeteries and Mausoleum 1401 Louisa Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 comprises 3 city blocks in the 9th Ward Neighborhood: St. Vincent de Paul # 1 is bounded by Piety St, Urquhart St., Louisa St., N. Villere St, St. Vincent de Paul # 2 is bounded by Piety St., N. Villere St., Desire St., Urquhart St., St. Vincent de Paul # 3 & Mausoleum is bounded by Louisa St, Robertson St., ...
Mt. Olivet Cemetery & Mausoleum was established in 1918 and is located on 4000 Norman Mayer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. Find a Grave Mount Olivet History
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA: In 1820, the City Council, following the belief that the contagions of yellow fever, cholera and other pestilential diseases were spread by "miasmas" emanating from cemeteries, wanted to find a new site for a cemetery farther removed from the center of population. The Council insisted on locating a new cemetery at le...
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 3 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA: Saint Louis Cemetery No. 3 (Cimetière Saint-Louis N° 3) is located some 2 miles (3.2 km) back from the French Quarter, some 30 blocks from the Mississippi, fronting Esplanade Avenue near Bayou Saint John. It opened in 1854. The crypts on average are more elaborate than at the other St. Louis cemeteries, including a n...
This project is intended for Germans that immigrated directly to New Orleans, particularly in the 1800's, and left descendants there. This is for first generation immigrants only. Resources * The German people of New Orleans, 1650-1900 by John Frederick Nau (1958)* Germans of Louisiana by Ellen C. Merrill (2014)
Hope Mausoleum, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA: Privately owned and managed, very well maintained mausoleum at the northern end of Canal Street. The Mausoleum does not allow photography and does not give out burial information without proof of ownership or relationship. Except for small portions along North Anthony and North Bernadotte Streets the Hope Mausoleum now completely...
Wikipedia Tulane University of Louisiana is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is a member of the Association of American Univ...
Scholars are uncovering a grisly use, during the Second World War, of a former embarkation facility on the Mississippi River in Algiers, LA. Following the Japanese attack on the US base on Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administration suspected that there may have been Nazi spies among the more than a million and a half German-speaking people living in Latin America. Through the State Department-r...
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA:
Cypress Grove Cemetery became the first cemetery built to honor New Orleans volunteer firemen and their families with the help of New Orleans philanthropist Stephen Henderson in 1838. Henderson’s estate left property to the Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association. The charitable association sold this property to fund the purchase of the cemetery site at the end of Canal Street and the for...
New Orleans University was a historically black college that operated between 1873 and 1934 in New Orleans. It was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church and affiliated with a number of preparatory schools located in various parts of the state of Louisiana. It merged with Straight College in 1934 to form Dillard University. Wikipedia