Lafayette Cemetery No 1, New Orleans, Louisiana - September 2019
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- On the eve of closure for city maintenance, I explored Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, located in the heart of the Garden District of New Orleans. Due to it's proximity to the city's oldest family homes; it's relative safety; and it's notoriety, it's one of the most visited and tourist-friendly cemeteries in the city. It is also ground central for the city's several yellow fever epidemics and many of the burials coincide with the worst years of the outbreaks. Estimates are that nearly 7000 people are interred within Lafayette Cemetery.
The cemetery has also been a film and television-friendly location, appearing in several movies and television shows; most notably perhaps, the tomb of Lestat was located here in the film, "Interview With The Vampire". The cemetery is located blocks from Anne Rice's former Garden District home. Numerous tour companies have adopted the cemetery as a favorite stop, but please be aware, this cemetery is free to visit. As of this writing on Dec.1 , 2019 - the only cemetery in New Orleans that cannot be accessed for free is St. Louis No. 1. Across the street is world-famous restaurant, Commander's Palace, established in 1893.
In this video, I point out a crypt belonging to the Rice Family and postulate if it is Anne Rice's Family Crypt. While I do not know if there is any facts to substantiate that, I have discovered that Anne Rice will be buried in Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery along with her late husband.
There are many society tombs for the city's unfortunate that fell victim to New Orleans' many epidemics, as well as a society tomb for Jefferson Fire Company No 22.
Ginnie at Hello Little Home offers a comprehensive self-guide to Lafayette No. 1 accompanied by beautiful photography. I recommend checking this out until the cemetery has reopened: hellolittlehom...
NOLA.com article on the cemetery's closure: www.nola.com/n...
Local News article on preserving the tomb that inspired Lestat's tomb: wgno.com/2016/...
Size: Large
Access: (Currently Closed) 7:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Visitors: High
Safety Risk: Low
Uniqueness: Very High
Oldest Burial: 1833
Veteran Burials: Yes
Notable Burials: John Howard Ferguson, George Washington Baldey, Harry Thompson Hays, Isaac Edward Morse, Taylor Webster
It would be nice to see some names and dates. Slow down filming
It was established in 1833
For as much the city makes from tourism you would think they would preserve their cemeteries better then this!
Hello! Thank you for visiting the channel and commenting! I don't know if you visited the city or live there, so please forgive me if I am oversharing info you already know.
So...cemeteries are "unique" in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, probably more, and maybe it's not unique, but New Orleans is where I learned that it's the responsibility of the families of the deceased to maintain and repair burial/interment plots. The family can opt to pay for a service called "Perpetual Care" that is supposed to keep the mausoleums and crypts clean, painted, and repaired. But that is contingent upon family members still remaining, and still willing to pay for upkeep on a plot for people they never knew. Or maybe the family line ended, or moved. It's complicated. The city does own some cemeteries, and well, let's just say, New Orleans can't even pay it's fire fighters, public defenders, fix it's pumps, repair the infrastructure, or hire enough police; so cemeteries is uh... I don't want to say "forgotten problem" - but it's "the family's problem". What the city did to Girod Street Cemetery is evidence of the city's concern for the dead. There are organizations like Save Our Cemeteries that go in annually and clean-up, repair, and restore cemeteries - but they are a volunteer organization surviving on donations and people who want to preserve history. The cemeteries that the church owns - well, their priorities are currently legal in nature, and they devote resources to the more regularly visited cemeteries. St. Roch which has an annual event of importance that dates back over a century, even struggles to get funding from the church for repairs to it's chapel and grounds.
Part of the mystique and "history in your face" aspect of New Orleans is witnessing it's several centuries of decay. It looks old so it must be old. Hurricanes, a wild river, and brutal summers have a way of tearing apart... everything. I'm personally fine with not seeing everything perfect and clean - those cemeteries exist, but so do museums. Show me something that has survived 10 hurricanes, and 20 floods, yellow fever outbreaks, war with another nation, and a 100 fires.
Thank you for visiting the channel and commenting! Again - sorry if I just said a lot of stuff you already now and were just complaining about New Orleans City Government like a true New Orleanian would and should!
Please do have respect for the Spirits.Thank you.
In what way do you feel they have been disrespected?
@@citiesofthedead8653 hiya, I didn't see any disrespect, perhaps Dee Dee meant no disrespect but just a bad way of putting it. I'm sure you and the millions of us who revere the old monuments have no bad intentions
The narration is bad on this video
Not sure what that means, but if you are talking about the audio level, then yes. I did not have a mic at this point in filming. It was the last day before the cemetery was to be closed for an indefinite amount of time, so I wanted to film it before losing the opportunity. I plan to revisit now that I have a proper mic, and I urge you to revisit the channel for that. Thank you for visiting and commenting!
3.5 years later, still closed.
Unreal. How long does it take to remove trees? Like most things in New Orleans - the surface story is always a screen for what's really going on. One can only guess, but I bet people living in the Garden District aren't missing all of the tourists snapping pics of their generations-old family plots...
I see other people said the same thing names and dates on the really old ones
Thanks love N.O. I hope Ida doesn't do a lot of damage Prayers up.
DEATH COMES TO US ALL.
Indeed. I envy the many thousands whose bodies are at rest (hopefully) in the iconic tombs of New Orleans, and surrounding parishes.
ясно
What does that mean?
Always wondered myself!