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Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery is the oldest Fraternal Cemetery in New Orleans. Land for the Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery was purchased for $700 in 1847 by the members of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. [2] The cemetery was officially opened in 1849 as a burial place for members of the Odd Fellows and their families.
Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [1]) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first known lodge was called Loyal Aristarcus Lodge No. 9, suggesting there were earlier ones in the 18th century.
Relocated adjacent to Blue Bayou Water Park under the new name Dixie Landin'. Both parks are owned and operated by the same organization. [21] Hamel's Amusement Park Shreveport: 1970s–1999 [22] [23] Lincoln Beach: New Orleans: 1939–1965 Lincoln Park: New Orleans: 1902–1930 Pontchartrain Beach: New Orleans: 1928–1983 Six Flags New ...
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
By 1987, four were still active: the Odd Fellows, Lizzie Rebekahs, the Masons and the Eastern Star. The Odd Fellows, he said, was the second oldest, behind the Masons.
Pontchartrain Beach was an amusement park located in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain.It was founded by Harry J. Batt Sr. (grandfather of American actor Bryan Batt) and later managed and owned by his sons, Harry J. Batt Jr. and John A. Batt.
Louis Armstrong Park—the site of Congo Square and home of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park; Eagle Saloon & Odd Fellows Hall, this 19th century lodge building is perhaps the most important surviving building from the early days of jazz, having been the base for the pivotal Eagle Band and where "the father of Jazz" Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Buddie Petit, Louis Armstrong, and ...
Odd Fellows Home (Gainesville, Florida) 1893 built Gainesville, Florida "Odd Fellows Home was built in 1893 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. It was subsequently used as a girls school and as the city hospital. In 1914 it became a rest home for aged Odd Fellows and an orphanage. The home was closed in 1966." [15]