Nestled in the trees at what is currently known as the Louisiana Veterans Memorial Park is the site of what was probably Baton Rouge’s first cemetery. What started as the “Spanish Cemetery,” then called the “Old American Cemetery,” and finally the “Old Protestant Graveyard” was the resting place for many of Baton Rouge’s early notables. And like many other Louisiana cemeteries, it became a lamented eyesore before its ultimate extinction.
