The Cemetery Under The French Quarter
Published October 6, 2016 at 8:30 AM CDT
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A 1972 Times-Picayune article detailing the discovery of coffins buried in the French Quarter.
When you walk around the French Quarter, you see all kinds of tours going by- intimate horse drawn carriage tours, ghost tours, architectural tours. But most tours don’t touch one of the neighborhood’s most significant landmarks. Probably because you can’t see it.
Ryan Gray is an archeologist at the University of New Orleans. He stands on the corner of Burgundy and St. Peter Streets in New Orleans and estimates how many bodies he’s standing on top of. “You know. Six, eight, ten people. There are many people who don't want to believe that there are quite as many people as I think are buried here.”
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