Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

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Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The cemetery was opened in 1852, and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood.

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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