Orange Grove Cemetery in Lake Charles, Louisiana

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Get directions 2023 East Broad Street
Lake Charles, Louisiana 70601 United States

Coordinates: 30.22760, -93.19396
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This site is one of the area's most scenic, historic cemeteries with its majestic oak-shaded lanes. The first cemetery at this location was Orange Grove, which covers 13 acres and was established around 1885. The addition of Graceland came some years later. Scattered throughout the cemetery are large mausoleums built by affluent residents, such as the Gray, Noble and Bel families. One can also find more modest tombstone such as the wooden grave marker of infant Minna Watterson, born January 1st, 1909; died May 2, 1910. The cemetery also features a Jewish memorial and burial site, a monument commemorating fraternal members of the Woodmen of the World and a section dedicated to War Veterans. Records show that not all who reside in the cemetery have rested in peace... at least 3 individuals now buried in the cemetery were originally entombed at the Corporation Cemetery, on the corner of Moss and Church Streets. As conditions declined at the Moss Street Cemetery, local families began exhuming their loved ones from that site and relocating the deceased to Orange Grove. This includes the Gray, Green and Mullett families. In 1983 the Sons of the American Revolution displayed 50 coffin flags at the site in honor of our Veterans; the display has grown to over 1000 flags placed throughout the cemetery on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.