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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the parish seat for Caddo Parish
Shreveport is in Caddo Parish
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This Marks the Site
of
Battery 4
One of the eighteen batteries
and four forts which formed
the Confederate defenses
of Shreveport
1864 – 1865 — — Map (db m138787) HM
This Marks the Site
of
Battery 5
One of the eighteen batteries
and four forts which formed
the Confederate defenses
of Shreveport
1864 – 1865 — — Map (db m138780) HM
Built circa 1856 by Aaron B. Levisee for wife Persia Willis. Named for her family home in Alabama. Surrounding estate was subdivided in 1874 giving name to neighborhood and street. Later home to Foster and Harvey families. Builder Levisee was a . . . — — Map (db m138821) HM
Designed for banker William L. Trimble and wife Bessie by noted Shreveport architect Edward F. Neild. Completed 1929. Residence of the Trimble family until 1960. A pristine example of Georgian Revival Style. — — Map (db m138879) HM
Built 1923 by prominent attorney Henry Clay Walker, Jr. Later residence of Coca Cola bottler Zehntner Biedenharn. Housed State Missionary Headquarters of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1961-1975. Architects: Maritz & Young of St. Louis, . . . — — Map (db m138863) HM
Established on this site September 16, 1922, Shriners Hospitals for Children in Shreveport became the world's first Shriners Hospital. In 1986, the original building was replaced with a new facility. From its beginnings in Shreveport, Shriners . . . — — Map (db m139582) HM
Gas was first discovered in Caddo Parish in 1870 in a water well drilled for an ice plant located between Market and Edwards Streets in Shreveport. First leasing activity for oil was begun in 1904 by Judge S.C. Fullilove, D.C. Richardson and I.G. . . . — — Map (db m109738) HM
Built 1937. Designed by Neild and Somdal architectural firm, of Shreveport. Frescoes over main entrance are by Conrad Albizio. Painted in 1938, they are believed to be the first outdoor frescoes in United States. Listed in National Register of . . . — — Map (db m143755) HM
The Louisiana State Exhibit Museum opened in 1939 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Public Works Program, "New Deal". It houses the largest topographical relief map in the state measuring 14 feet in circumference, and it also houses 22 . . . — — Map (db m143794) HM
Opened 1882 as city's Catholic Cemetery. Several priests who died in 1873 yellow fever epidemic rest here, including Father Jean Pierre, founding pastor of Holy Trinity Church. Also many pioneer members of Shreveport's French and Italian Societies . . . — — Map (db m143742) HM
Opened in 1883. City's first Black Cemetery established by and for Black citizens. Many prominent early African-American Shreveporters are buried here, From 1868 to 1874 this site was the campus of Shreveport University, a Baptist College. Entrance . . . — — Map (db m143748) HM
Centerpieces of this center are Caspiana House, built at Caspiana, La., in 1856, and the Thrasher Cabin, a rural Caddo Parish "dogtrot" log cabin, built c. 1835. Caspiana house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, the . . . — — Map (db m140326) HM
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