Rising Sun Excavation Unit 6

ID: 4768 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology ~ Date: 2005

This file appears in: The Rising Sun Hotel

A transfer-printed plate in debris from the Rising Sun Hotel fire.

This file appears in: The Rising Sun Hotel

The Rising Sun Hotel

By Alahna Moore & Charlotte Willcox, editor

Many visitors to New Orleans are familiar with the song “The House of the Rising Sun,” made popular by the English band The Animals in 1967. The song itself has roots far back in English folk…