Excerpt from Map of New Orleans and Vicinity by Vicente Sebastián Pintado.

ID: 5721 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Map Division, G4014.N5G46 1819.P5 Vault. ~ Date: The map is an 1873 copy of an 1804 map copied by Pintado in Havana in 1819.

This file appears in: Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

The 1804 Pintado map of New Orleans shows both the St. Peter Street site, referred to as the old cemetery, inside the city walls, and the new one, just to the outside of them.

This file appears in: Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

Archaeology of the St. Peter Street Cemetery

By D. Ryan Gray

The St. Peter Street Cemetery served as the City of New Orleans’ primary burial ground through most of the Colonial era, from 1724 (and possibly earlier) until 1789, when it was officially replaced by…