The New Orleans Katrina Memorial

Eighty-five unidentified victims of Hurricane Katrina lie in five crypts around a spiral shaped like the storm, with a carved stone at its center called the eye. The last seven were interred on August 29, 2008, the third anniversary, after a jazz funeral procession along Canal Street. The mayor's office put up $1 million and private donors added $200,000. The ground is the old Charity Hospital cemetery, used for the city's poor and unclaimed dead. A stone there honors people who gave their bodies to science, and a service is held each August 29.

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

• Charity Hospital Cemetery — steps away
• Chartier Concession — 0.8 mi
• Heinemann Park/Pelican Stadium — 0.9 mi
• City Of Metairie Ridge — 0.9 mi