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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...
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...
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
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...
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)