Canal Boulevard, prior to excavation

ID: 6409 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Earth Search, Inc. ~ Creator: ~ Date: 2017

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

Photograph of a bus stop with two green bus shelters, a pole, and a trash can.

Photograph of the areas to be renovated into new overhead catenary poles for the New Orleans Streetcar

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

By By Elizabeth Williams and Ethan Ranck, edited by D. Ryan Gray, Charlotte Willcox, and Elizabeth Williams

By some estimates, nearly 50,000 burials lie beneath Canal Boulevard, originally Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2. Almost forgotten since Canal Boulevard's addition to the city's roadways in 1937, road…