St. Louis Cemetery 1 is part of the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
The acid freak-out scenes in the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" were filmed in St. Louis Cemetery 1.
This Roman Catholic cemetery opened in 1789 and is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans. Almost all of the bodies here were buried in vaults above the ground in the 18th and 19th centuries. A Protestant section with few above ground vaults is in one corner of the cemetery.
From Wikipedia: "Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis No. 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights; and Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans. The renowned Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be interred in the Glapion family crypt. Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole playboy who brought the game of craps to the United States; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess. Delphine LaLaurie is also believed to lay in rest here. Architect and engineer Benjamin Latrobe was buried there after dying from yellow fever in 1820 while doing engineering for the New Orleans water works. In 2010, actor Nicolas Cage purchased a pyramid shaped tomb to be his future final resting place."
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