Utility pole on top of a wood-lined coffin.

ID: 6388 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Earth Search, Inc. ~ Date: March 2017

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

Utility pole on top of a wood-lined coffin.

The abandoned and inactive gas line, installed at an unknown date by an unknown company, disturbed burials under the sidewalk of Canal Boulevard. It was within the footprint of underground impact; it was removed so that excavations could continue.

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

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

By By Elizabeth Williams

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…