Lafayette Cemetery #1 New Orleans
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Lafayette
Cemetery #1 New Orleans CDV of two men
posing in front of a family tomb in Lafayette Cemetery #1 being identified as
Washington Cemetery on the card as the cemetery borders Washington
Avenue. The cemetery was named for the City of Lafayette, which was
annexed to the City of New Orleans that once was the city of Lafayette consists
of two designated historical districts, the Irish Channel and the Garden
District. The residents of the Irish Channel were first-generation
immigrants from Ireland and Germany, the two largest groups of immigrants to
settle in New Orleans in the two decades before the Civil War. It was
known as a working-class neighborhood in a tough riverfront area. The
Garden District represented the new wealth of immigrants from Great Britain and
the North who came and made their fortunes as cotton factors, brokers, and
merchants after the Louisiana Purchase. They are often called
"Southern Yankees." Back mark H. Miller, New Orleans.
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