Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Greenwood Cemetery. Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in 1852, [1] and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures. [2] It is one of a group of historic cemeteries in New Orleans.
While the cemeteries were not an original part of the city's design, as the city grew, their presence became unmistakable. The community focus on the cemeteries, the architecture, proximity, and lore all gave rise to tourist interest in the Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans. [14] St. Roch Cemetery Chapel (postcard image courtesy of Infrogmation)
File:Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA.jpg. Size of this preview: 800 × 499 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 200 pixels | 640 × 400 pixels | 1,024 × 639 pixels | 1,280 × 799 pixels | 2,664 × 1,663 pixels. Original file (2,664 × 1,663 pixels, file size: 2.72 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons ...
S. Saint Louis Cemetery. Shrewsbury (Camp Parapet) Cemetery. Categories: Cemeteries in Louisiana. Cemeteries in the United States by city. Geography of New Orleans. Tourist attractions in New Orleans. Buildings and structures in New Orleans.
Metairie Race Course Announcement The Times Picayune Thursday March 1, 1838. Before becoming a cemetery, the site, established on a high-and-dry ridge along Bayou Metairie (now Metairie Road), [3] was a horse racing track, founded in 1838 by Col. James Garrison and Richard Adams [4] who acquired the land from the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company.
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. It is 8 blocks from the Mississippi River, on the ...
Death and funeral. Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 a.m. on Friday, December 6, 1889. [1][2] His funeral was one of the largest in the South, and New Orleans draped itself in mourning as his body lay in state in the City Hall for several days. An Executive Committee decided to emphasize his ties to the United States, so an American national flag ...
Colorful architecture in New Orleans, both old and new. The buildings and architecture of New Orleans reflect its history and multicultural heritage, from Creole cottages to historic mansions on St. Charles Avenue, from the balconies of the French Quarter to an Egyptian Revival U.S. Customs building and a rare example of a Moorish revival church.