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This list of cemeteries in Louisiana includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Der Stadt Friedhof, Fredericksburg – pioneer cemetery; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin
This is a list of installations used by the United States Marine Corps, organized by type and state.Most US states do not have active Marine Corps bases; however, many do have reserve bases and centers.
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.
Marine Corps Brig, Camp Lejeune at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Portsmouth Naval Prison on Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Seavey Island, Maine (closed 1974) United States Disciplinary Barracks, Atlantic Branch at Castle Williams on Governors Island, New York City (closed 1965)
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Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, at the Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupee Parish. [3] He was the son of Confederate army captain Ovide Lejeune (1820–1889) [4] He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the United States Naval Academy. [5]
The Missouri state government then took over operation of the site after the last veteran died in 1950, using it as a state park. In 1981, a cottage, a chapel, and the Confederate cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Confederate Chapel, Cemetery and Cottage. The chapel was moved from its original position in ...