Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

Founded in 1833 and still in use today, the cemetery takes its name from its location in what was once the City of Lafayette, a suburb of New Orleans that was annexed by the larger metropolis in 1852.[4] Confined within a single city block, the cemetery contains approximately 1,100 family tombs and 7,000 people.[5] The Cemetery was included in the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 1972, for its architectural and social-historical importance.1 on its "Watch" list in 1996 due to the dilapidated state of some tombs, and it did so again in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina damaged much of the cemetery.While promoting her 1995 novel Memnoch the Devil, writer Anne Rice emerged from a coffin after riding through the cemetery.
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