1930 FEDERAL
CENSUS
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana — St. Gertrude’s Convent identified as an institution under Enumeration District 52-8.
VIEW SOURCE →Long before the gates opened for the Haunted Convent, these grounds were already part of Northshore history.
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St. Gertrude’s Convent, Ramsay, Louisiana. Tichnor Brothers Collection, Boston Public Library. Approx. 1930–1945.
Along Highway 25, between Covington and Folsom, stood a place generations of Northshore residents knew as St. Gertrude’s Convent.
Its history reaches back at least to the early twentieth century.
A surviving historic postcard, preserved in the Boston Public Library’s Tichnor Brothers Collection, documents “St. Gertrude’s Convent, Ramsay, Louisiana” during the approximately 1930–1945 period.
VIEW HISTORIC ARCHIVEIn the 1930 Federal Census materials for St. Tammany Parish, St. Gertrude’s Convent was identified as its own institution under Enumeration District 52-8.
The record offers a documented glimpse into a property that had already become part of the Northshore landscape generations before it became the Haunted Convent.
St. Gertrude’s was also remembered by the people who grew up around it.
WYES/PBS’s Northshore Stories identifies the convent as a landmark along Highway 25 between Covington and Folsom — a place with both religious and secular significance in the surrounding community.
One local resident interviewed for the program remembered St. Gertrude’s as a “mysterious place” and recalled that his family, like others in the area, used laundry services operated by the nuns.
“A mysterious place.”REMEMBERED IN WYES / PBS WATCH NORTHSHORE STORIES
For years, locals have traded stories that the old convent grounds are haunted.
Some say there are ghosts on the property.
Others call it folklore.
This October, you can step onto the private property after dark and experience the grounds for yourself.
This October, the gates open after dark. Step onto the private grounds, experience the property, and decide for yourself where history ends — and the stories begin.
Historical information presented on this page is based on archival and published sources.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana — St. Gertrude’s Convent identified as an institution under Enumeration District 52-8.
VIEW SOURCE →“St. Gertrude’s Convent, Ramsay, Louisiana” — Tichnor Brothers Collection, approximately 1930–1945.
VIEW ARCHIVE →A documentary history of St. Tammany Parish featuring St. Gertrude’s as a Northshore landmark and recalling it as a “mysterious place.”
WATCH THE PROGRAM →Historical information presented on this page is based on archival and published sources. Haunted Convent attraction storylines, characters, folklore, and theatrical elements are presented for entertainment and should not be interpreted as documented historical events.