Archival and modern confusion concerning the site part of the interesting place-based history of today’s Canal Boulevard that began in the mid-nineteenth century. Benjamin Maygarden in Godzinski et al. 2008 reports that by 1879, Charity Hospital Cemeteries were two of fourteen cemeteries at the confluence of Metairie Ridge, today’ City Park Avenue. All of these cemeteries were secured on colonial land parcels that were proving geographically anachronistic to the emerging city grid, which was sloppily developing around these pre-existing, yet, very expansive, cemetery footprints.