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Magnolia Cemetery is a cemetery in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties i ...
.


Description

The cemetery is located at 422 North 19th Street and is bordered on the north by Main Street and on the south by Florida Boulevard. The west and east sides are bordered by 19th Street and 22nd Street, respectively. The land for the cemetery was purchased by the town of Baton Rouge from John Christian Buhler Jr, in August 1852, with burials in the area dating back to the 1820s according to some sources. The cemetery was the site of intense fighting during the Battle of Baton Rouge on August 5, 1862; a commemorative ceremony is held at the cemetery each August. It was turned over to the city of Baton Rouge in 1947 and is now administered by the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC). wit
three photos and two maps
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on January 31, 1985.


Notable burials

This cemetery was the main burial site for most prominent citizens of Baton Rouge, white and African-American, from 1820s to the 1970s and burials continue to the present. Among the more noteworthy persons buried here are 6th District Congressman
Edward White Robertson Edward White Robertson (June 13, 1823 – August 2, 1887) was a United States representative from Louisiana. He was also the father of Samuel Matthews Robertson. Early years He was born near Nashville, Tennessee. Robertson moved with his paren ...
(1823-1887) and his son Congressman Samuel Matthews Robertson (1852-1911),
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(1824-1910),
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Congressman William Brainerd Spencer (1835-1882), novelist
Lyle Saxon Lyle Saxon (18911946) was a writer and journalist who reported for ''The Times-Picayune'' in New Orleans, Louisiana. He directed the Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration (WPA) guide to Louisiana. Life Saxon was born on Septem ...
(1891–1946), State Senato
Douglas Cullum Montan
(1834-1896), the Whig politician James M. Elam and his son James Essex Elam, four-time Mayor of Baton Rouge, former Register of State Lands
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, the
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who moved to impeach Huey Pierce Long Jr.


See also

*
Baton Rouge National Cemetery Baton Rouge National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It encompasses , and as of 2020, had over 5,000 interments. The cemetery was added to the National Regis ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in East Baton ...


References


External links


BREC Magnolia Cemetery page
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