Preservation

Photos of some of the tombs restored by Historic Tours’ Robert Florence & Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries.

Entertaining and Educating Travelers Since 1995

Since 1995, NOLA Historic Tours has been an alternative for the curious traveler, specializing in French Quarter, Cemetery, Garden District, Voodoo, Music, Haunted, Treme, Literary, Swamp and Plantation Tours. Preservationist / author Robert Florence has restored many historic tombs and runs the New Orleans Musicians Tomb which provides free burial to musicians. Experience the city’s most accredited guides who insightfully and humorously feature New Orleans’ most spectacular sites and intriguing traditions.

Private discounted group tours, destination management services, and foreign language tours are available.

Homer Plessy Tomb

Under construction being blessed by Father Jerome LeDoux, pastor of St. Augustine Catholic Church where Homer Plessy was a parishioner.

In his epic history of St. Augustine “The War of the Pews,” Father LeDoux writes that Robert Florence ended the War of the Pews with his cemetery preservation efforts, starting with the Homer Plessy tomb. 

Laville Family Tomb
St. Louis Cemetery #2, Square #3

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Tomb of Marie Couvent
St. Louis Cemetery #2, Square #3

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Brandt Family Tomb
St. Louis Cemetery #1

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New Orleans Musicians Tomb

Administered & restored by Historic Tours’ Robert Florence. First burial – Lloyd Washington of the Ink Spots, 2004.

For information on the Musicians Tomb, contact Robfl@TourNewOrleans.com

Giradeau Family Tomb 
St. Louis Cemetery #1

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Tomb of Oscar James Dunn, the nation’s first African-American Lt. Governor

St. Louis Cemetery #2

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