Star Cemetery - Shreveport, Louisiana.
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misfitt
N 32° 29.371 W 093° 46.008
15S E 427958 N 3594956
Located just west of downtown Shreveport at 2300 Texas Avenue (the original “Texas Road”).
Waymark Code: WM3GNM
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2008
Views: 12
“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 located 500 feet NW of this marker.”
This marker was put in place a “Historic Sites Signs Projects” by joint efforts between the City of Shreveport, Bossier City, Caddo Parish, & Bossier Parish, which began in 1995 and ran for 12 years. The Highland Area Partnership of Shreveport spearheaded the effort in the first place. Bob Marak designed the signs, the Shreveport City sign shop produced them, Eric J. Brock (historian in Shreveport) wrote the texts. This marker program was sponsored by the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau and was coordinated by Eric J. Brock, local historian, and Robert J Marak The project included many historic sites already marked by the state of Louisiana and resulted in 142 markers placed in the Shreveport-Bossier area.
Marker Name: Star Cemetery
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Cemetery
Parish: Caddo
Link to more information:: Not listed
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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