So we are taking a fishing trip out of Venice the week after the fourth. My wife has never been to NO so wants to stop and make a day of it on our down or on our way back. I said that's cool, I'd like to see the WW2 museum again and have a nice lunch somewhere. She said cool I want to see a huge graveyard that a few of my favorite shows have been filmed at.

So somebody help me out. Is there a famous giant cemetery in NO? I've googled and came up with St. Louis1&2. Could this be what shes talking about?.

Of course she has no clue which one it is. She only knows it's been in 2 or 3 shows.

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Posted by tduecen

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Posted on 6/21/19 at 7:12 pm to IAmNERD

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Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis No. 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights; and Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African-Americanmayor of New Orleans.

The renowned Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole aristocrat and politician who founded both the Faubourg Marigny and Mandeville, Louisiana; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess. Delphine LaLaurie, the notoriously cruel slave owner, is also believed to lie in rest here. Architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe was buried at St. Louis No. 1 after dying from yellow fever in 1820, while doing engineering for the New Orleans water works. In 2010, actor Nicolas Cage purchased a pyramid-shaped tomb to be his future final resting place.[4]

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St. Louis No. 2 is located some three blocks back from St. Louis No. 1, bordering Claiborne Avenue. It was consecrated in 1823. A number of notable jazz and rhythm & blues musicians are buried here, including Danny Barker and Ernie K. Doe. Also entombed here is Andre Cailloux (1825-1863), African-American Unionhero and martyr of the American Civil War.

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Those entombed include ragtime composer Paul Sarebresole, photographer E. J. Bellocq, and painter Ralston Crawford. Also, one of the most famous to be entombed here, is Sweet Emma Barrett [1897-1983], a very gifted self-taught piano player and singer, who helped make New Orleans Jazz the treasure as we know it to be.

St. Louis No. 3 also includes a Greek Orthodox section. The cemetery was heavily flooded during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but its tombs escaped relatively unscathed. There was some plaster damage from debris.

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Posted by Lester Earl

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Posted on 6/21/19 at 7:56 pm to IAmNERD

Lafayette #1 is the one that Anne rice uses in her novels. It’s across from commanders palace too & in a nice spot uptown to eat, for sure.

I think you need to be part of a tour now to see St. Louis 1.

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Posted by IAmNERD

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Posted on 6/21/19 at 9:01 pm to Lester Earl

Thank you. We have one confirmed as Lafayette #1. The Netflix show "The Originals" apparently filmed there. We will start here and go from there.

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