Greenwood Cemetery was created in 1852 by the Firemens Charitable Benevolent Association to relieve overcrowding from it's neighboring cemetery Cypress Grove (my next posting). It opening coincided with the yellow fever epidemic which claimed 8,000 New Orleans residents. For those of you not familiar with New Orleans cemeteries, most of all of the tombs are buried above ground due to the low sea level.
The cemetery is located uptown, take the Canal Street Trolley to City Park Avenue (the end of the line).
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