Canal Boulevard, prior to excavation

ID: 6384 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Earth Search, Inc. ~ Date: January 2017

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Archaeological Investigations from 2000s

Photograph captures the first area just before excavation in the foreground.

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Archaeological Investigations from 2000s

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Archaeological Investigations from 2000s

In the early 2000s, New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) planned a route change to the streetcar line on Canal Street so that its terminus would extend to Canal Boulevard. By 2004, RTA hired Earth Search, Inc. (ESI), a local cultural…