The land that bound Charity Hospital Cemetery No. was sold to the New Orleans Land Co. in 1909, eventually to build Canal Boulevard, completed by 1937. Artifacts collected strewn across the site indicate the land was briefly used or repurposed as a de facto dumping ground; nearly all the bottles collected from above the burials all had scars and manufacture marks that date to the early twentieth century. Part of the reason that these cemeteries were so clustered together was that the high-ground afforded by the relict distributary system was relatively narrow. Once infrastructure had improved to the point of draining large tracts of land by the turn of the twentieth century, private real estate companies were pouncing on the ability to secure profit from previously undevelopable tracts of swamp land like those areas between Metairie Ridge and the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Seidemann and Halling (2019) explain that these conditions created a tension in the landscape. “The interaction between these already marginalized spaces and expanding development creates the potential for violence. New Orleans presents a unique laboratory for analyzing cemetery destruction, as recent archaeological excavations in the city have revealed both sanctioned and unsanctioned examples of cemetery destruction” (Seidemann and Halling 2019:670).