When Jefferson City was annexed into New Orleans in 1870, the name of the cemetery was changed to Valence Cemetery. As a plaque at the cemetery explains, it contains a number of old society tombs ...

Saratoga Street in New Orleans and bounded by Washington Avenue, Sixth and Loyola Streets. Next up, Save Our Cemeteries will focus on fixing the tombs at the cemetery on Valence St. Save Our ...

NEW ORLEANS — The neglected, broken roads around Valence Cemetery in New Orleans will shake your car to death. The tombs are in similar disrepair. As he guides me through the latest vandalism ...

as Richard Thompson reports for the New Orleans Advocate, that’s not the case for the city-owned plots, like Freret’s Valence Cemetery or the Garden District’s Lafayette No. 2. Welch reports ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hauntingly beautiful and often misunderstood, New Orleans’ historic cemeteries have mesmerized generations of people. Even with all the stories, art, and legends that have come ...