Greenwood Cemetery  New Orleans.. 
<p>History
Greenwood Cemetery was established by the Firemen’s Charitable &amp; Benevolent Association in 1852. Its opening immediately relieved the overcrowding at Cypress Grove. In 1852, America was stricken with an epidemic of yellow-fever. New Orleans, America’s third largest city, was hit particularly hard. By 1853, over 8,000 in the city had expired from the disease. Greenwood’s one hundred and fifty acres provided an expanse to accommodate the pressing need at the time and for future generations.
</p><p>The cemetery was opened in 1852, and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood.
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The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures. Notables interred here include several mayors of New Orleans, Confederate Generals William Plummer Benton, Thomas Moore Scott and James Argyle Smith, jazz legend Leon Roppolo, and novelist John Kennedy Toole.
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