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In the early to mid 1800s New Orleans, newly become American, expanded at an exponential rate. Farmland became city, and levees, canals, and pumps conspired to drain the swamps that bounded "Back-of-Town", the area bounded by swamps where yellow fever took the children of the poor Germans, Italians, Irish, and of course Africans at an appalling rate. As the city expanded they needed a place far from the city where they could locate the cemeteries, so the diseases that came with the dead would remain far from the people. A cemetery zone was located on naturally high ground far outside of town, and several cemeteries were established. The growth of the city has encapsulated these burial grounds, and now they have to a degree fallen into disrepair. This one is from a cemetery owned by one of the old fraternal orders. It is called The Odd Fellows Rest.