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Houston – Baton Rouge Trip May 7-10th 2021

 

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2017/01/houston-s-5-best-vantage-points-for-those-dramatic-downtown-skyline-views

 

Howard Hughes  29.7632516,-95.3873128 maybe drone photos of skyline

 

Forest Park Cemetery

Karla Faye Tucker  29.7177400,-95.3055850

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6806432/debora-sue-schatz

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/156472/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-8062556

 

               

               

Magnolia Cemetery

Beaumont

Moon Mullican 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22505622/moon-mullican

 

Oak Bluff Memorial Park 8-5 

618 Block, Port Neches, TX 77651

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/179486/oak-bluff-memorial-park

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/877/tex-ritter

 

Calvary Cemetery 3700 25th St, Port Arthur, TX 77642

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7623526/harry-h.-choates

 

 

Louisiana state sign 30.131139, -93.692478  or 29.768704, -93.889644

 

Lake Charles        

Highland Memory Gardens 6325 Common St, Lake Charles, LA 70607

Marlboro Man

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6844855/wayne-mclaren

 

               

Saint John Cemetery

Lafayette 30.2229412,-92.0239471

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8566395/jean-jacques_alexandre_alfred-mouton

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183260838/don-ohlmeyer

 

 

 

Skyline of Baton Rouge 100 S River Rd #198, Port Allen, LA 70767

30.452017, -91.202960

 

Baton Rouge, LA

 

Sing the River Sculpture 30.449246, -91.190659

 

Louisiana State Capitol  900 N 3rd St b170, Baton Rouge, LA 70802

 

Old Louisiana State Capitol 100 North Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70801

Friday     10AM–4PM

Saturday 9AM–3PM

Sunday   Closed

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10815/henry-watkins-allen

 

LSU Tiger Stadium 30.411004, -91.185084

 

Magnolia Cemetery

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/68097/famous-memorials

 

Roselawn https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/68740/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-32618087

 

               

Heavenly Gates Cemetery

Percy Sledge 30.5414800,-91.1666700

 

               

Greenoaks Memorial Park 9595 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge

 

Barry Seal

 

 

About an hour to Lake Pontchartrain Causeway – 30.365315, -90.094185 for historical sign

 

 

Sunset Point Fishing Pier drone photos of Lake Pontchartrain Causeway 30.361304, -90.088389

 

 

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway  southern end – 30.018852, -90.153093

 

Metairie Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/68207/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-4417

 

P.G.T. Beauregard 29.9814075,-90.1144446

 

John Bell Hood

Richard “Dick” Taylor 29.9818672,-90.1146939

 

Chapman H. Hyams, 1838-1923, Metairie Cemetery

 

Al Copeland, 1944-2008, Metairie Cemetery

 

 

Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum – New Orleans 4000 Norman Mayer Avenue

 

Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2

 

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/533315/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-8068395

 

 

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/309403/mount-olivet-cemetery-and-mausoleum

Fats Domino

 

               

 

https://www.frenchquarter.com/top-gravesites-new-orleans/

 

 

 

 

Farthest you can drive to the mouth of the MS River 29.235888, -89.360966

 

Southernmost Point in Louisiana

Nearby 29.231859, -89.389740

 

 

 

OAK ALLEY PLANTATION

3645 Hwy. 18

VacherieLA 70090

Hours:

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily

Cost:

Plantation admission includes the self-guided tour of the historic ground and guided tour of the Big House. Adults $20; Youth (13-18 yrs) $7.50; Child (6-12 yrs) $4.50. Group, Senior (65 & Older) & AAA rates available upon request.

 

Swamp Tour / fort Jackson maybe

 

 

One of Bourbon Street’s oldest live Jazz clubs is dedicated to the preservation of “America’s classical music”

 

If taking pictures of people — especially musicians — is your favorite kind of photography, New Orleans is the city to be in, and Frenchmen Street is the place to go. This stretch of the city (centered in the 500 and 600 blocks of Frenchmen), which lies in the Faubourg Marigny, just across Esplanade from the French Quarter, is arguably the coolest neighborhood in the world. By day, it’s a brightly-painted street scene, chockablock with sidewalk cafes populated by cool people, artists making art, buskers making music, and general liveliness.

 

 

Return to Houston on Sunday

 

Houston Memorial Gardens 2426 Cullen Blvd, Pearland, TX 77581  29.565111, -95.351859

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210481957/george-perry-floyd

George’s entombment in Section 45 of the graveyard

George Floyd is buried next to his mother Larcenia Jones Floyd (1947-2018). His father George Perry Floyd (1949-2002) is also buried at the same cemetery.


Friday

8AM–5PM

 

Saturday

8AM–7PM

 

Sunday

8AM–7PM

 

 

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/955370/famous-memorials?page=1#sr-57372310

 

Forest Park East Cemetery

Webster

 

Yates family grave 29.5151000,-95.1236500

 

Nearby Challenger Seven memorial 2301 W Nasa Blvd, Webster, TX 77598

 

 

Trinity Episcopal Cemetery

John Bankhead Magruder 29.2936611,-94.8112335

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11111/louis-trezevant-wigfall

 

nearby Charlotte Ganahl Walker  29.2937469,-94.8145424

 

nearby https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/160050/famous-memorials

 

Galveston 1900 Hurricane Monument 29.272770, -94.815201

 

 

If time

 

1 hour from Houston Henry Lee Lucas 30.7122115,-95.5359815

Kenneth Allen McDuff 30.7119444,-95.5363888

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62664374/satanta

 

2.5 hours from Prison cemetery Tyler, TX

David Koresh   – Waco guy 32.3540840,-95.3681717

 

Near Tyler Keith Green – 32.5273058,-95.5382332

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5826090/keith-green

 

If In Dallas Restland Memorial Park

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/6340/famous-memorials?page=2#sr-9290

 

40 minutes to Central Unit from houston– Ghost Adventures – One Circle Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77498

 

 

Maybe – NASA Johnson Space Center 2101 E NASA Pkwy, Houston, TX 77058  open 10-5pm

               

 

 

 

Maybe if in Austin https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2366/frank-hamer

 

 

 

 

 

The Myrtles Plantation, circa 1796, One of America’s Most Haunted Homes

7747 U.S. Highway 61
P.O. Box 1100
St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775

Historic Tours offered daily from 9am until 5pm 

 

Maybe

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20981/sarah-knox-davis