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Baton Rouge Cemeteries (Images of America)

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For plenty of immigrants to Baton Rouge, being buried within the highlands in their European homes used to be a dream. Recognizing that this desire used to be unlikely to return to fruition, they christened the bluff above the Mississippi River south of the town as “Highland” and established Highland Cemetery in 1819. The military fort had a burial ground; churches established cemeteries; owners, members of the family, and slaves were buried at the plantations; towns offered municipal cemeteries and paupers’ plots; and families distant from towns created circle of relatives cemeteries.
Magnolia Cemetery used to be established for white citizens in 1852. Sweet Olive and the Lutheran Cemeteries were free of charge people of color and slaves. St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery, established in 1826, didn’t discriminate on race but on religious affiliation, as did the Jewish cemetery. Civil War Union soldiers were separated from Confederates buried in Magnolia Cemetery and interred within the Baton Rouge National Cemetery. In 1921, Roselawn Park Cemetery represented the beginning of cemeteries as business. Beautiful statuary, elaborate tombstones and memorials, unique monuments to the departed, and lush gardens accentuate Baton Rouge’s cities of the dead.

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