Greenwood Cemetery New Orleans

07/04/2025

The gates to Greenwood and Cypress Grove Cemeteries are open today from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. It's not too late to place a flag on your hero's grave in recognition of their service to our nation. Greenwood and Cypress Grove Cemeteries are the final resting places for veterans of every war since the Battle of New Orleans. Come visit and see how patriotic friends and families have decorated our cemeteries with red, white, and blue flags, flowers, and other decorations. Happy Independence Day!

07/01/2025

Patriotic families are painting Greenwood Cemetery and Mausoleum red, white, and blue for the 4th of July! There's still time to bring the celebration to one of your friends and loved ones at Greenwood and Cypress Grove Cemeteries. Please make sure your flags, flowers, and patriotic decorations are securely anchored in a vase to prevent them from blowing away. To inspire you, here's a sampling of some of the more beautifully decorated tombs, graves, and crypts at Greenwood.

06/21/2025

Anyone who’s ever waited for the stoplight to change at Canal Street and City Park Avenue has seen the impressive monuments that sit just beyond the iron fence of Greenwood Cemetery.

Among the most conspicuous are the tomb of Lodge No. 30 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Firemen’s Monument. But Greenwood is home to thousands of additional tombs. In fact, it has the most burial plots in the city, and each tells a story about the people who helped to shape New Orleans.

In the newest issue of Preservation in Print, Sally Asher, an author and historian who has served as president of Save Our Cemeteries, details the history of some of the more interesting plots in Greenwood.

Click the link below to learn the stories behind these monuments to history.

https://prcno.org/greenwood-cemetery-monuments-to-history/

06/10/2025

Aerial photo of Greenwood Cemetery

06/09/2025

05/26/2025

Let us not forget those who died for our freedom.

05/25/2025

Veterans of every war since the Battle of New Orleans are at eternal rest in Greenwood and Cypress Grove Cemeteries in New Orleans. This Memorial Day holiday, come salute your family’s heroes and thank them for their service and sacrifice for our nation. Greenwood Cemetery, Where Heroes Rest.

05/15/2025

Just looking over their loved ones.

03/25/2025

Warren Easton was born in New Orleans on November 19, 1848. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1871, taught in Baton Rouge schools for two years, and returned to New Orleans to teach and become a public school principal. From 1884 to 1888, he served as Louisiana Superintendent of Education and established the State Normal School in Natchitoches (now Northwestern State University).

On October 11, 1888, he was elected Superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools and served until he died in 1910. At that time, the system had 414 teachers of 24,800 students in 51 schools. By 1910, Orleans Public Schools had 1,122 teachers, 38,098 students in day classes, and 87 schools.

Easton launched calisthenics, drawing, and music classes during his twenty-two-year tenure. He submitted the first typewritten superintendent's report on January 11, 1889. On November 2, 1905, forty young men enrolled in public schools' first short-hand typing class. On October 15, 1894, Easton inaugurated fire drills in schools, and on September 25, 1906, he required compulsory smallpox vaccinations of students.

Easton fought to set regular teacher paydays and endorsed and established the Teachers' Pension League. He organized the Louisiana Teachers Association and served as its president. He was active in the National Education Association, the New Orleans Educational Association, and the Public School Alliance. Married to Camille Hart, he died in New Orleans on October 17, 1910, and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery on Mulberry between Cedar Walk and Aloe Walk.

Warren Easton School was named for him in 1911. Principal Francis Gregory and the entire faculty moved into the new school at 3019 Canal Street in 1913. The school became co-ed in 1952 and racially integrated in 1967. Warren Easton School celebrated its 100th anniversary of opening its current location on September 16, 2013.

Source: Today in New Orleans History.

03/18/2025

This St. Patrick's Day, the Firemen's Charitable & Benevolent Association (FCBA), owner and operator of Greenwood and Cypress Grove Cemeteries, salutes two of its most famous Irishmen - Hon. John Fitzpatrick and Hon. James F. McKay III.

John Fitzpatrick was President of FCBA from 1892-1919. He also served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1892-1896. He was State President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Louisiana and brought the AOH National Convention to New Orleans in 1892. Fitzpatrick was also one of the organizers of the Knights of Columbus and the Police Mutual Benevolent Association in New Orleans.

Retired Chief Judge of Louisiana's Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal James F. McKay III has served as FCBA President since 2000. He also served as National President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians from 2016 to 2020 and as Honorary Consul of Ireland since 2010. McKay was instrumental in bringing the National AOH Convention to New Orleans in 1992. He was named "Hibernian of the Year" by the Louisiana Society AOH in 2013.

The Fitzpatrick and McKay family tombs are among Greenwood's most imposing tombs facing City Park Avenue at Canal Boulevard.