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In 1944, The Louisiana Office of Veterans Affairs was created to provide local services to Louisiana Veterans and their families. In 2003 the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs (LDVA) was established as a cabinet-level department of the State of Louisiana to provide service to Louisiana's Veterans and their families with regard to healthcare, education, disability benefits, long-term ...
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.
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.
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
The need to expand and improve the cemetery's veterans section has arisen due to the wars waged by the United States for past 30 years, Murphy said. A large granite wall will frame this section ...
On Monday, Louisiana Governor paid a visit to Shreveport to break ground on the new Northwest Louisiana State Building.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
Port Hudson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Port Hudson, 20 miles (32 km) north of the city of Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 19.9 acres (8.1 ha), and as of the end of 2020, had over 12,000 interments.