Charity Hospital Cemetery

The hospital that bought this ground began in 1736 with the estate of Jean Louis, a French sailor and shipbuilder whose will provided for a hospital for the poor. In the yellow fever epidemic of 1858 it admitted 2,727 patients and 1,382 of them died. Medical teaching came to the wards with the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834, then Tulane and LSU. The sixth building opened on Tulane Avenue in 1939 with 2,680 beds. Katrina closed it in 2005, and a replacement hospital, University Medical Center, opened in 2015.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.8 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 — 2.9 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 — 3.2 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.
• The Cabildo — 3.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Heinemann Park/Pelican Stadium — 0.9 mi
• Beatles Only Concert Performance in Louisiana — 0.9 mi
• Duelling Grounds — 1.1 mi
• Allard Plantation — 1.1 mi