Good Sunday Morning, It's snowing furiously here in St. Louis.....! I have a question about something a cousin was telling me regarding a Confederate home, a retirement home for Civil War veterans which was located just off of Canal Street by St. Louis No. 2 Cemetery, which has since been torn down and replaced with an apartment building. Can someone tell us something about that place... its name.... or anything else to identify it? Thanks for any help Renee

Renee, Thanks to Sally you have the name, Camp Nicholls. The site is on Bayou St. John on Moss Street, not far from the entrance to City Park. It is actually near St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 (not No. 2) close to the end of Esplanade Avenue (not Canal Street). The site is just towards the lake from an apartment building named the Esplanade at City Park. You can read some bits about its history here: http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/June-2010/Julia-Street-with-Poydras-the-Parrot/ and here: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/new-orleans-know-it-all/Content?oid=1239773 and here: http://goo.gl/AzwiM A great site is here: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/US_Military_Old_Soldiers_Home_Records Scroll down to Louisiana. There you will find links to the records of the home available through any Family History Center. There is also a link to a photo: http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/AAW&CISOPTR=312&CISOBOX=1&REC=11 Hope this helps. Norm --- On Sun, 12/12/10, Gene Data <[email protected]> wrote: . . . > I have a question about something a cousin was telling me > regarding a > Confederate home, a retirement home for Civil War veterans > which was > located just off of Canal Street by St. Louis No. 2 > Cemetery, which has > since been torn down and replaced with an apartment > building. > Can someone tell us something about that place... its > name.... or > anything else to identify it? > Thanks for any help > Renee

That site pre Katrina was the location of the New Orleans Police Department special operations divisions which included the mounted police stables (which have since the storm been relocated to the City Park stables). This is a url about its demolition in 2009. Paste it into your browser which should get you to it on NOLA.com Cate;-} www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/demolition_of_police_buildings.html -----Original Message----- From: Gene Data Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LAORLEAN] Help needed with question about retirement home in NOLA Good Sunday Morning, It's snowing furiously here in St. Louis.....! I have a question about something a cousin was telling me regarding a Confederate home, a retirement home for Civil War veterans which was located just off of Canal Street by St. Louis No. 2 Cemetery, which has since been torn down and replaced with an apartment building. Can someone tell us something about that place... its name.... or anything else to identify it? Thanks for any help Renee ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message