Cemeteries

30 people show up to discuss fate of cemeteries in spillway

8 Feb 2012

Army Corps of Engineers is looking for ways to preserve the cemeteries

Religious cemetery group offers burials for Cook morgue bodies

8 Feb 2012

The group that runs local Catholic cemeteries is offering as many as 300 graves for bodies held at the Cook County medical examiner’s office, officials said today.

Lost cemeteries topic of public hearing

8 Feb 2012

L’Observateur LAPLACE – The. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set a public hearing for this evening at Destrehan Plantation to gather resident input on the best way to manage a pair of cemeteries from the 1800s that were plowed over to make way for the Bonnet Carre Spillway.