Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2
Tour Description
This tour documents two excavations of Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2, a pauper's cemetery that was subsumed by Canal Boulevard in the 1930s.
Locations for Tour
Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2 (Introduction)
Nearly 50,000 burials lie beneath Canal Boulevard, originally Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2. Nearly forgotten since Canal Boulevard's addition to the city's roadways in 1937, road crews rediscovered the cemetery when they added a south-bound lane…
Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s
The Charity Hospital’s Cemetery No 2. * was used actively between the 1850s and the 1920s to bury the poor and those who succumbed to illness and disease at the hospital. Included in these burials were enslaved people, immigrants, victims of a yellow…
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…