Magnolia Cemetery

Baton Rouge bought the ground from John Christian Buhler Jr. in August 1852, though some sources date burials to the 1820s. It became the resting place of prominent citizens, white and African American, into the 1970s, and burials continue. Novelist Lyle Saxon, philanthropist John Hill and the Confederate nurse Joanna Fox Waddill are here, with four congressmen. The city took it over in 1947 and BREC runs it now. Each August a ceremony recalls the 1862 fighting. The cemetery was listed on the National Register in 1985.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Capitol Park Museum — 1.0 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 1.2 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Old State Capitol — 1.2 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 4.2 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Baton Rouge National Cemetery — steps away
• Baton Rouge Pool Swim-In — 0.7 mi
• Congregation B'Nai Israel — 1.0 mi
• Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March — 1.0 mi