# Lafayette Cemetery No. 1

New Orleans, United States

Founded in 1833 in the heart of the Garden District, this walled block holds roughly 1,100 above-ground family tombs and some 7,000 burials, its cruciform paths lined with weathered marble and crumbling brick vaults.

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Coordinates: 29.928701, -90.085361

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