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October 3, 2007
Feature Photo - Charity Hospital Cemetery
Charity Hospital Cemetery, which is located on Canal Street, just behind Cypress Grove.
Everyone is used to seeing New Orleans cemeteries with the above ground tombs. They're quite a contrast to classic graveyards that consist of plots marked by headstones. This cemetery is neither. It's a burial ground with all unmarked graves. It's where Charity Hospital buries cadevers donated to the medical school for research purposes.
The cemetery is unmarked and unremarkable, but the ground is surveyed and records kept on when and where burials took place.
Posted by YatPundit at October 3, 2007 9:52 AM