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Katrina Memorial
St. Louis Cemetery #1
Marie Laveau's Tomb
St. Patrick Cemetery #2
New Orleans Katrina Memorial
 

The Katrina Memorial is a cemetery for those who were killed during Hurricane Katrina and were unidentified and unclaimed by family members.

 

The marker remembering those who suffered and died and have been lost or forgotten.

 

The crypts.

 

The cemetery was bought by Charity Hospital in 1848 and before Hurricane Katrina, all the dead were buried underground (uncharacteristic from the other cemeteries).

 

This Katrina Memorial was originally called the "Potters Field"--historically used to bury the unclaimed from throughout the city from Yellow Fever and enfluenza epidemics. 

 
 For AP photos and information on the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, click here.