Promoting awareness is the first step to preservation

"Louisiana state legislature created the Louisiana Historic Cemetery Preservation Program and Trust Fund to help identify and preserve burial grounds statewide. Among the endangered properties are small rural sites, often those of plantation and farming families (both white and black), that are poorly marked and threatened by development and decay, as well as larger inner city cemeteries that have fallen into disrepair with shifts in demographics over the years. Local and state preservation groups have a great deal of work in front of them but such efforts do tend to generate public interest and support." -- Louisiana Office of Cultural Development 2011