Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1852, and is located on City Park Avenue in the Navarre neighborhood.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Also known as: “Cementerio de Greenwood (Nueva Orleans)”, “Cementerio de Greenwood, Nueva Orleans”, and “Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Metairie Cemetery and "Rags" Scheuermann Field at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.
Metairie Cemetery
Cemetery
Metairie Cemetery is a historic cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, founded in 1872. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume it is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits on Metairie Road. Metairie Cemetery is situated 1,700 feet west of Greenwood Cemetery.
"Rags" Scheuermann Field at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium
Stadium
"Rags" Scheuermann Field at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium is a 1,000-seat baseball park in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the home stadium for the Delgado Community College Dolphins baseball team that competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association. "Rags" Scheuermann Field at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium is situated 2,200 feet east of Greenwood Cemetery.
Holt Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Mark Gstohl, CC BY 2.0.
Holt Cemetery is a potter's field cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is located next to Delgado Community College, behind the right field fence of the college's baseball facility, Kirsch-Rooney Stadium. Holt Cemetery is situated 2,100 feet east of Greenwood Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge and Hollygrove.
Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge
Mid-City is a portion of New Orleans in the center of the metropolitan area, about midway between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. It is less visited by tourists than more famous areas like the French Quarter, but has impressive attractions of its own.
Hollygrove
Suburb
Photo: Infrogmation, CC BY 2.5.
Hollygrove is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, located in the city's 17th Ward. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton area, the boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are the following: Palmetto Street to the…
Lakeview
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lakeview is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Lakeview District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Robert E Lee Boulevard to the north, Orleans Avenue to the east, Florida Boulevard, Canal Boulevard and I-610 to the south and Pontchartrain Boulevard to the west.
Greenwood Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: City of New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
29.98485° or 29° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-90.11294° or 90° 6′ 47″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
76XFXVMP+WROpenStreetMap ID
way 28551079OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Greenwood Cemetery” goes by many names.
- French: “Cimetière Greenwood”
- French: “Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans”
- German: “Greenwood Cemetery”
- Spanish: “Bóveda Ducoing”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Greenwood”
- Swedish: “Greenwood Cemetery”
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