Holt Cemetery: Community Engagement & Public Feedback Meetings
Holt Cemetery is more than a historic cemetery—it is a place of memory, family, community, and history. Our Mammy’s is working with WAKE and Preservation Resource Center-Save Our Cemeteries to engage descendants, neighbors, community members, preservation advocates, and others who have a connection to Holt Cemetery. Through a series of community engagement activities and public meetings, we are gathering stories, experiences, concerns, ideas, and priorities that can help inform the future of this important cultural landscape. Your voice matters. Whether you have family members buried at Holt, have visited the cemetery, live nearby, or simply care about preserving New Orleans history, we invite you to participate.
Community Meetings
Join us for upcoming community listening sessions focused on Holt Cemetery. These meetings will provide an opportunity to:
- Learn more about the project and its goals
- Share your experiences and knowledge of Holt Cemetery
- Identify concerns and priorities
- Discuss ideas for preservation, interpretation, access, and community stewardship
- Hear from other members of the Holt Cemetery community
This community engagement effort is focused on listening to the people who know and care about Holt Cemetery. The project includes community
outreach, stakeholder engagement, public listening sessions, surveys, and documentation of community input.
Meeting Dates & Locations
Thursday,September 17, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Preservation Resource Center-Save Our Cemeteries
923 Tchoupitoulas St #3819, New Orleans, LA 70130
Saturday, September 19, 2026
10:00 AM - Noon
Corpus Christi- Epiphany Community Resource Center
2022 St. Bernard Avenue
Building C
New Orleans, LA 70116
Registration is encouraged.
If you have questions about the project, please contact:
Sara Lowenburg
Director, Save Our Cemeteries
Email: slowenburg@prcno.org
Liz Dunnebacke
Executive Director, Wake Education
Email: liz@wake.education
Public Feedback
Can't make it to the meeting? Feel free to leave your thoughts here
Additional project information, meeting updates, feedback opportunities, and resources will be added to this page as the engagement process continues.
If you have questions about the community engagement process, please contact:
Gaynell Brady Principal & Founder, Our Mammy’s History & Genealogy Email: ourmammys@gmail.com
Happening This Month
Collaborative Ethnography of Holt Cemetery
About the Project
The goal of this project is to preserve and protect Holt Cemetery, established 1879, by empowering families of the deceased through support and long-deferred recognition. We will achieve our goal by planning and activating an engagement project on multiple fronts. We will identify the publics of Holt, and then provide a space through which these publics can share memories, concerns, photographs, and other histories of their families and experiences at the cemetery. The products of this engagement project will be preserved in a publicly accessible format.
We are seeking individuals or organizations:
- That have relatives buried in or families associated with Holt Cemetery in New Orleans
- Who are interested or involved in research and preservation at Holt Cemetery
Join us at one of the presentations or forums below. See each program date and time for registration information.
Holt Cemetery, 1907. Photo by M. Durkee via Wikimedia Commons.
Holt Cemetery, 1907. Photo by M. Durkee via Wikimedia Commons.