The New Metairie Cemetery 
Submitted by Larie Tedesco
Times Picayune November 9, 1873 


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A visit to this new cemetery by a reporter of 
the PICAYUNE, yesterday, disclosed the fact that 
great improvements had already been there 
accomplished. It will be remembered that this 
cemetery was the celebrated Metairie Race Course,
with which so many pleasant reminiscences are 
connected. But the changes and improvements have 
been so great that but few of the old habitues 
of the place would now recognize it. The "Old 
Track" is sadly change, and where before was 
life, enthusiasm and the intensity of pleasure, 
is now being made the resting place of the dead.

This new cemetery contains sixty-four acres of 
ground. The roads or walks are already shelled 
to the extent of nearly three miles.

The reporter was informed by Mr. Harrod, the 
gentleman in charge of the improvements of the 
ground that the prospects already for the sale 
of the lots, were remarkably encouraging, on lot 
already having been laid out and bought for a 
tomb, and this in so short a time since the 
intention of laying out this ground for a 
cemetery. Active work is now going on, and very 
soon we will be able to chronicle the completion 
of the grounds for the purposes intended.

Trees are shortly to be planted, together with 
many other embellishments which doubtless will, 
besides the many other attractive features 
already displayed and intended, to make the 
Metairie Cemetery one of the most desirable 
and popular pieces of burial in our city.

It is intended hereafter to give a more extended 
review of the grounds and the patrons of this 
new cemetery.