Cemeteries Proposal #1
This configuration was RTA’s first choice. The main complication with this site is that the rear backs up to Cypress Grove and Charity Hospital cemeteries. Charity Hospital cemetery was a potter’s field for yellow fever victims. The site was also used to bury the remains of those who donated their bodies for scientific research at the medical schools in town. There are no marked graves in this cemetery, so there’s some question about how far towards City Park Avenue and that big tree in the middle of the bus turnaround the cemetery actually extended. When RTA did work on the Cemeteries bus terminal on Canal Blvd. in the 1980s, there was some debate over whether the site was actually Native American burial ground, and that struck some nerves. As a result, RTA is sensitive on this site, and is doing more research. The current tracks can always be extended if this works out at a later date.
The big tree in the diagram at the top of the page.
View down City Park Avenue back to Canal, from the entrance to the proposed off-street terminal.
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