Girod Street Cemetery

Girod Street Cemetery
Row of crypts in Girod Cemetery, 1885
Details
Established1822 (1822)
Closed1940s
Location
central New Orleans

The Girod Street Cemetery (also known as the Protestant Cemetery), was a large above-ground cemetery that resided in central New Orleans, Louisiana, established in 1822 for Protestant residents of the Faubourg St. Mary and was closed down in the 1940s. The cemetery then remained unused, until it was officially torn down on January 4, 1957.

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