This is a great tour if you like history, art, hauntings, and culture. We will discuss notable people, what to look for in evaluating stained glass and inaccurate details in carvings, and burial practices.
Points forts
5 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
5 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide expert
We can either eat lunch between the 1st and 2nd cemeteries or the 2nd and 3rd cemeteries. We normally eat at a small local Mexican restaurant, but if you prefer something else, just tell us.
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Houston City Hall
We meet inside the rotunda of the Houston City Hall at 901 Bagby Street, Houston, Texas 77002 on Monday through Friday. City Hall is closed on weekends. On weekends, we meet at a park bench on the east side of City Hall.
Retour
Informations importantes
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Accessible aux fauteuils roulants
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Les nourrissons et les jeunes enfants peuvent voyager dans une poussette ou un landau
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Animaux d'assistance autorisés
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Des options de transport en commun sont disponibles à proximité
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Adapté à tous les niveaux de condition physique
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When we are in a cemetery, we ALWAYS have to be deferential to any mourners and for any funeral or burial activities that may be about to begin or are onging. We might have to skip an area where a ceremony is about to begin or in progress. Please talk quietly and do not create a disruption.
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Parents and guardians need to provide booster seats for children 2 years old and under
Politique d'annulation
Pour un remboursement complet, annulez au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de départ prévue.
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Pour un remboursement complet, vous devez annuler au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience.
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Les délais limites sont basés sur l'heure locale de l'expérience.
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Si vous annulez moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience, le montant que vous avez payé ne sera pas remboursé.
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Cette expérience nécessite un nombre minimum de voyageurs. Si elle est annulée parce que le minimum n'est pas atteint, on vous proposera une autre date/expérience ou un remboursement intégral.
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Toute modification effectuée moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience ne sera pas acceptée.
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This is a great tour if you like history, art, hauntings, and culture. We will discuss notable people, what to look for in evaluating stained glass and inaccurate details in carvings, and burial practices.
Points forts
5 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
5 heures
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide expert
We can either eat lunch between the 1st and 2nd cemeteries or the 2nd and 3rd cemeteries. We normally eat at a small local Mexican restaurant, but if you prefer something else, just tell us.
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Houston City Hall
We meet inside the rotunda of the Houston City Hall at 901 Bagby Street, Houston, Texas 77002 on Monday through Friday. City Hall is closed on weekends. On weekends, we meet at a park bench on the east side of City Hall.
This is the most prominent cemetery in Houston with some of the most distinguished people in Houston history. It was the first chartered cemetery in Texas in 1872. It was the first professionally landscaped in Texas. Among the dignitaries buried here are early philanthropist George Hermann, the wealthiest man in the world Howard Hughes, actress Gene Tierney, former governor Ross Sterling, and the Hobby family as in the airport and performing arts center. From Glenwood, we will also enter and tour the German Cemetery that is attached to it. We will see the only woman who won a Congressional Medal for her service in the American Civil War.
1 heure et 30 minutes
2
Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home Forest Park Lawndale
This is one of the most beautiful and largest cemeteries in the US. It has over 122 acres. It has dozens of statuaries including a 20 foot long x 10 foot high carving of The Last Supper and a 3 foot high image of the face of Jesus that appears to turn and follow you. It also has 2 Tiffany stained glass windows in a mausoleum. It also has notable famous and infamous people including guitarist Lightnin' Hopkins, former Senator Lloyd Bentsen, former mayor Oscar Holcombe, pick-axe killer Karla Faye Tucker, Mellie and Niels Esperson, and the greatest civic leader in Houston's history Jesse H. Jones. It has headstones with images of Batman and Spiderman. The cemetery has rolling hills, a lake, and ducks in it.
2 heures
3
Jackson Cemetery
This is the oldest African-American Cemetery in Houston. It is in the neighborhood of Harrisburg which originally was a separate city. It predates the existence of Houston. It has former enslaved people, folks who were born in the 1700s, and veterans of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. It has been abandoned since 1967. With the advent of integration, Blacks began paying to be buried in professionally operated cemeteries.
