Carrollton Cemetery No. 1

Carrollton Cemetery began as an appendage of a town government. The first lot, number 405, sold to Neil Cochran for $15 on November 8, 1849, four years after Carrollton was incorporated. It was laid out segregated, with a large section for white families and a smaller one for Black families, and the difference still shows in elaborate above-ground tombs on one side and plain in-ground copings and open-framed chambers on the other. German pioneer families such as the Fischers, Kirchoffs and Lochtes lie here. The city took over management when it annexed Carrollton in 1874.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 2.6 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.2 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 3.4 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.5 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Mater Dolorosa Church — 0.4 mi
• H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — 0.4 mi
• Newcomb Pottery Garden — 0.5 mi
• Carrollton Neighborhood — 0.6 mi