ʻO Lafayette Cemetery kekahi o nā lua kupapaʻu kahiko loa ma ke kūlanakauhale. Ināʻoe he paʻi kiʻi,ʻike pahaʻoe i nā'āpana, no ka mea he wahi kaulana kēia no nā kiʻiʻoniʻoni i hanaʻia ma New Orleans. Ua hoʻopaʻaʻia ka hale kupapaʻu e Washington Avenue, alanui Prytania, Kelani'Olani a me Coliseum Street. ʻO ka mōʻaukala o ka lua kupapaʻu e hoʻi hou ana i ka hoʻomakaʻana o ke kenekulia 19 ma mua o ka liloʻana i wahi o New Orleans .
Ka Moʻaukala a me ka Feʻe Feʻe
Ua kūkuluʻia ma kahi o ke kūlanakauhaleʻo Lafayette, ua hoʻokumuʻia ka hale kupapaʻu i ka makahiki 1833.
ʻO ia kahi o ka Livaudais Plantation, a ua hoʻohanaʻia ke kahua pāʻani no ka kanuʻana mai ka makahiki 1824. Ua waihoʻia ka hale kupapaʻu e Benjamin Buisson aʻelua mau alanui kuʻuna e māhele i ka waiwai iʻehā mau kula. I ka makahiki 1852, hoʻohui pūʻiaʻo New Orleans i ke kūlanakauhaleʻo Lafayette, a ua lilo ka hale kupapaʻu i ilina o ke kūlanakauhale,ʻo ia ka halekupapaʻu mua i New Orleans .
ʻO nā palapala hoʻomapau mua i loaʻa i ka lā 3 oʻAukake, 1843,ʻoiai ua hoʻohanaʻia ka hale kupapaʻu ma mua o ia lā. I ka makahiki 1841, aia he 241 mau kupapaʻu ma Lafayette o ka poʻe i loaʻa i ka maʻi wela. I ka makahiki 1847, aneane 3,000 mau kānaka i make i ka maʻi ahūlaula, aʻo Lafayette e pili ana i 613 o ia mau mea. I ka makahiki 1853,ʻo ka pōʻino nui loa iʻoi aku i ka makeʻana o 8000 mau make, a ua waiho pinepineʻia nā kino i nā puka o Lafayette. ʻO ka hapa nui o kēia mau mea i hoʻokuʻiʻia he poʻe malihini a me nā kānaka pāpale pāloka i hana ma kahi o ka Mississippi.
Ua hina ka hale kupapaʻu i nā manawa paʻakikī, a ua nui ka nui o nā halekupapau i hōʻinoʻia aiʻole i hāʻule i ka make.
Mahalo i ka hana paʻakikī o ka hui "Hoʻopakele i ko mākou mauʻanuʻu," ua nui ka hoʻouka houʻana a me nā hana mālama, a ua weheʻo Lafayette no nā huakaʻi.
Kaomi ma Lafayette Cemetery
ʻO nā pāpale wili, aiʻole nā "umu," e kahakiʻia ka palena o kahi ilina maanei, e like me St. Roch a me nā waiwaiʻo St. Louis.
Aia nā halekupapaʻu iʻikeʻia ma laila ka hale kupapaʻu o Smith & Dumestre, ma ka Section 2, me 37 mau inoa i kahakahaʻia ma luna me nā lā mai ka makahiki 1861 a hiki i ka makahiki 1997. He nui ka poʻe e kanu i ka hopena o ka make e like me ke kuni wela, apoplexy, a ua hahauʻia e ka uila. Ua kanu pūʻia hoʻi maanei nā hōkū koa o nā kaua likeʻole, e like me ke Kaua Kivila a me kekahi lālā o ka Hui'Aipa haole. Ua wehewehe nā'ekupapaʻuʻewalu i nā wāhine e like me "nā kālepa."
ʻO kekahi mau kumumanaʻo kūikawā no ka mea i make o "Woodman of the World," he kamupena hao e ola nei i hāʻawiʻia he "pōmaikaʻi hoʻomanaʻo." Ua kanuʻiaʻo Brigadier General Harry T. Hays o ka Pūʻali koa i kahi maʻaneʻi, ma kahi iʻikeʻia he kolupā wāwae. Aia kekahi hale kupapaʻu i kaʻohana Brunies, no ka inoa jazz. ʻO ka Lafayette Hook a me ka Ladder Co. No. 1, ka Chalmette Fire Co. No. 32, aʻo ka Jeff Company Fire Company No. 22, he poʻe hui pūʻulu ma kahi. ʻO ka "Garden Garden" he wahi mākahā no nā halekupapaʻuʻehā i kūkuluʻia e nā hoaaloha, "ka Quarto," a makemake lākou e kanu pūʻia. Wahi a Save i ko mākou mau hale kuʻuna, ua hui nā hālāwai kūkā ma nā Quarto, akā ua hoʻopau ka mea hope loa i kā lākou puke puke. ʻO nā hōʻike wale nō o ko lākou olaʻana he mau kīʻahaʻelua no kā lākou mau minuke, a ua hanaʻia i loko o nā popoʻi a no nā mamo a lākou.