The Dead of Locust Grove

Visit Locust Grove Historic Cemetery and see the graves of early fugues in Louisiana History like Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of President Zachary Taylor and short lived wife of Jefferson Davis, and Eleazar Ripley, a Major General and Hero of the War of 1812.  This site will be open this day but it has no staff nor any facilities. Locust Grove Cemetery State Historic Site is located on Baines Road near St. Francisville. For more information please call Audubon State Historic Site at 225-635-3739.