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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.
Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.
In 1949, the company established Lake Lawn Park Cemetery in New Orleans and developed a large perpetual-care community mausoleum with more than 31,000 crypts. In 1969, under the tutelage of President Frank B. Stewart, Jr. (Albert's grandson), the company purchased the adjoining Metairie Cemetery .
In 1872, Metairie Cemetery opened on the outskirts of New Orleans, located on relatively high ground along the Metairie Ridge. It was the first example of a rural garden cemetery in the city. Despite bearing the name of a New Orleans suburban community, Metairie Cemetery resides within the city limits of New Orleans.
Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Louisiana which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.
Burials at Metairie Cemetery (45 P) ... Cemetery This page was last edited on 1 August 2024, at 13:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans; Holt Cemetery, New Orleans; Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans; Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans; NRHP-listed; Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, New Orleans; NRHP-listed; Saint Louis Cemetery, New Orleans; NRHP-listed; Shrewsbury Cemetery (also known as Camp Parapet or First Zion Cemetery), New Orleans
Interments at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pages in category "Burials at Metairie Cemetery" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.