Holt Cemetery, Established 1879, 635 City Park Ave. Owned by the city of New Orleans. Coronet player Buddy Bolden, jazz and blues singer Jesse Hill are bured here.

Holt cemetery is one of the only all buried below-ground cemetery in New Orleans. It's primarily for people who can't afford an above-ground tomb. The memorials are homemade and very personal. The many in ground graves are sometimes bordered by wood or pieces of cement with the government headstone in the center.

Founded in 1879, Holt Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of New Orleans. Plots can be obtained forthe cost of the burial, with ownership remaining with the family as long as they maintain the plot. As with St.Louis Cemetery No. 2, the pre-hurricane condition of the cemetery made determining the extent of the damage difficult.

Walking among the many hand made headstones, each one is a personal a work art by living relatives of the deceased. Because of limited space, many families re-use ancestral plots at Holt to bury the newly dead. The practice is commonplace in New Orleans’ above ground tombs, where bodies tend to decompose quickly. According to Rob Florence, Holt may be soon closed to future burials—an action that will likely generate heated opposition from those with family ties to the cemetery.

From the flood water and winds of Hurricane Katrina the C&C Technologies map indicates that on August 31, approximately three to four feet of floodwaters covered Holt Cemetery. This information is corroborated by floodlines evident on the tombs and headstones.

 

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This particular one is called Holt Cemetery, and is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. ... What are the tomb markers of Holt Cemetery largely made of Plaster and wood.

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