Every cemetery in New Orleans has an interesting story behind it, so it would make for too long a page to include them all here. To give you an idea of how our cemeteries came about as the city grew, we present a brief chronology here.
| c. 1721 |
First cemetery built at St. Peter and Burgundy in the Quarter. |
| 1789 |
St. Louis #1, Basin and Conti Streets |
| 1822 |
Girod St. Cemetery -- First Protestant Cemetery (de-consecrated and torn down in 1957) |
| 1823 |
St. Louis #2, Conti St. and Claiborne Ave. |
| 1827 |
Mortuary Chapel of St. Anthony, Conti and N. Rampart (now Our Lady of Guadalupe Church) |
| 1828 |
First Jewish cemetery at Jackson and Saratoga |
| 1832 |
Lafayette #1, Washington and Prytania |
| 1840 |
Cypress Grove, Canal St. and City Park Avenue |
| 1841 |
St. Patrick Numbers 1,2,3, 4900 Canal (#1), City Park Ave. & Bienville (#2), lake side of City Park & Bienville (#3) |
| 1844 |
St. Vincent de Paul, Piety St. |
| 1846 |
Dispersed of Judah, 4900 block Canal St. |
| 1847 |
Charity Hospital Cemetery, 4800 block Canal |
| 1849 |
Odd Fellows' Rest, Canal St. and City Park Avenue (across from Cypress Grove) |
| 1849 |
Carrollton (Green St.), at the block of Birch, Adams, Hickory, Lowerline |
| 1852 |
Greenwood, Canal & City Park (on the lake side) |
| 1854 |
St. Joseph #1, Washington and S. Liberty |
| 1854 |
St. Louis #3 |
| 1858 |
Temmeme Derech, 4800 block Canal |
| 1859 |
St. Vincent, Soniat St. |
| 1860 |
Hebrew Rest, Elysian Fields near Gentilly |
| 1865 |
Masonic Cemetery, Bienville and City Park Ave. |
| 1867 |
Valence St. Cemetery (Valence and Saratoga) |
| 1867 |
St. John Lutheran, 4800 block Canal |
| 1872 |
Metairie Cemetery, Pontchartrain Blvd., and Metairie Rd. |
| 1874 |
St. Roch #1 and #2, St. Roch Avenue |
| 1879 |
Holt Cemetery, near City Park Avenue |
| 1920s |
Mount Olivet, Norman Mayer near Gentilly Blvd. |
