New Orleans' cities of the dead have unique interment practices. I explain how the NOLA cemeteries work and how we can get so many people in a city block. This video is a short clip from a virtual tour of the Garden District.
I cannot thank you enough for this very informative video. Have been wondering for years, and asking other posters, how your cemeteries work with multiple bodies in the same vault. Now I finally know, yay! Cheers from Australia.
I love NOLA. Been a few times and have family on the Gulf coast. Loved walking St Louis Cemeteries. There is a special vibe in Louisiana and especially NOLA.
I Love Learning ! I completely enjoyed your informative video ! So Much knowledge in such a short time. Thank You So Very Much. I found this So Very Very Interesting & You are Well Versed in the subject. Thank You Again. Sincerely.
Learned a lot you are brilliant at this no holes bared attitude excuse the pun you would be a great lecturer in college and have your subject well researched 10/10 God bless
I enjoyed your presentation. Why have I been interested in cemeteries and death, is beyond me, perhaps because deep down I know it’s part of life and inevitable.
If they didn't have room in their vault or tomb for new death, you could rent someone else's. Some people bought multiple vaults for this purpose. They could make a little money renting out their vaults. Even Marie Laveau had a wall vault she would rent out.
Thank you for the excellent information. I went to NOLA for the first time about 11 years ago and absolutely fell in love with the city. I try to go every year on a girl’s trip with friends and we always say we are going to do the cemetery tour and always run out of time. I feel like I just got to go on a “mini tour” We are coming in April. Do you recommend the tours or is it best to just go ourselves?
The cemeteries that everyone wants to see are basically closed to the public right now. Which is sad :( A couple of companies are doing St Louis Number 3 right now though.
I thought there were some coffins floating after Katrina. Was that maybe in Mississippi then? You’re a great, believable !! Tour guide. I always want to know the truth, not hype. I live a few blocks from Lafayette cemetery. When are they gona reopen? I just read this morning they’re gonna dig up magnolia trees I guess because of their roots and I hate that but I understand it but I didn’t know magnolia roots were that intrusive. The ones in front of my house between the sidewalk and the street and they cracked it a bit but not a lot. I don’t know how to find the answers to these unless you come back to them and most the time I can’t remember where I ask questions but do you ever give like 101 tours of the city? I live here and there’s a lot of don’t care to find out about because I already know, but it would be nice to have a personal tour someone that you could just ask different things
Any coffins floating after the levees' failures after Katrina would be because of the coffins coming out of the tombs. Not because they came out of the ground. The city is going to reopen Lafayette Cemetery soon (In the New Orleans speed) But limit it to tours only and schedule times. Their plan for opening isn't feasible because they want to limit the tours to 7 people. The costs of running a tour won't be covered by that amount. So we will see what happens. They have been saying they were going to remove the trees for years. I see it like the way they fill our potholes. I personally don't give tours barley anymore. We have 18 wonderful tour guides that I swear know everything! We do private tours but, we have small group tours of only 15 people. Which makes them more personal and guides get to answer more questions. As a tour guide, my favorite thing is answering questions because you never know what you will end up talking about :D
Why are D.O.B, D.O.D, and the person's name not inscribed, or listed on the tomb? If I remember correctly from walking through a N.O. cemetery years ago, I didn't see a whole lot of names. I could be wrong. Thanks, and a great little video. ,
Since the family owns the tombs they are responsible for what goes on the tomb. Plaques are totally the responsibility of the tomb owners. Many the marble wears away (sugaring), and marble doesn't do well in New Orleans. That's why you will see newer plaques made of granite. Sometimes there are extra names on a tomb that are not in the tomb or names left off. Because of the family did not have the money to have the name and dates inscribed. Dates are another thing. Each number would cost money too! And some did not want you to know how old they were even after they died. The big society tombs do not have any names on them because of the number of people in the tomb. Not enough space for etching the names. The Italian Society tomb in St Louis 1 has over 1k people in it at one point. Big tombs you will see a number large on the vault and they will have a record book of who went into what vault.
Yes, Coping Tombs are reusable. They bury on one side and then the next time on the other side. They can fill though. That is when you will see cement covering the top of them.
I do not think cemeteries are spooky and I do not think anyone haunts cemeteries in New Orleans. I wouldn't hang out in a cemetery haunting it. I would mess with people on Bourbon St.
Total misconception. Has been said so many times, and it isn't true. By the time a coffin would come up to the top, it would of been destroyed by the moisture. Bones would leach to the top like they do sometimes at Holt Cemetery but never a whole coffin. Mind you family tombs have been knocked over by water and coffins were released. But no body has popped out of a grave whole.
