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Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city. One of the most famous is the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division monument, a monumental tomb of Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War .
Cross avenues and diagonals creating circles and triangles, live oak trees festooned with Spanish moss, and, originally, a series of lagoons created a picturesque garden of the dead in the manner of the influential Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Metairie Cemetery is located on a high section of ground known as the Metairie Ridge. The Ridge followed the course of Bayou Metairie, which is roughly the path of modern-day Metairie Road. Metairie Ridge was high ground, a rare commodity in the below-sea level areas away from the Mississippi River.
17 paź 2013 · Today the cemetery is well known for its particularly lovely monumental architecture and funeral sculptures, dedicated to some of the city’s noteworthy early heroes and notorious residents both.
27 paź 2021 · Spread over 127 acres that used to contain a racetrack, Metairie Cemetery holds the graves of nine governors, 12 New Orleans mayors and six state Supreme Court justices, along with — among many...
18 sty 2024 · The Metairie Cemetery Association (MCA) constructed an automobile entrance on Pontchartrain Blvd. in the 1900s. The photographer stands with his back to the New Basin Canal. The tumulus seen through the vine-covered entrance arch is that of the Army of Tennessee (Louisiana Division).
9 lis 2015 · Jefferson Davis, former President of the CSA, was traveling to his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, when bad weather struck him with a serious illness. He stopped at New Orleans, and died at the home of Judge J. U. Payne (the father-in-law of White League leader Charles Fenner), in the early hours of December 6, 1889.
