St- Louis Cemetery No- 1 Walking Tour

St- Louis Cemetery No- 1 Walking Tour

When you tour with non-profit Save Our Cemeteries you are helping to preserve and protect the historic cemeteries of New Orleans. Our tours are small (usually under 15 people) and historically accurate.

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest existing cemetery in New Orleans and the burial ground of both the illustrious and the notorious. Listen to stories about New Orleans first mayor and sugar producer Étienne de Boré, architect of the U.S. Capitol, Benjamin Latrobe, chess champion Paul Morphy, and Homer Plessy of Plessy vs. Ferguson fame. Come visit the tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and see the pyramid-shaped future tomb of actor Nicholas Cage who once owned the LaLaurie Mansion, a house of horrors on Royal Street.

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Stop At: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, 425 Basin St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest existing cemetery in New Orleans and the burial ground of both the illustrious and the notorious. Listen to stories about New Orleans first mayor and sugar producer Étienne de Boré, architect of the U.S. Capitol, Benjamin Latrobe, chess champion Paul Morphy, and Homer Plessy of Plessy vs. Ferguson fame. Come visit the tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and see the pyramid-shaped future tomb of actor Nicolas Cage who once owned the LaLaurie Mansion, a house of horrors on Royal Street.


Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes