Visiting the Past

Visit the past in the historic steamboat town of Washington, Louisiana at Cedar Hill Cemetery with a candle-lighting and choir performance by the Chimneyville Baptist Choir and an assortment of additional musicians and singers.

After the Yellow Fever epidemic of the 1850's, additional space was needed for the people of Washington to bury their dead. This was how Cedar Hill Cemetery came to be. Both this cemetery and the town's older one were for people who lived in the area without regard for creed or race.