Epps Cemetery - Shreveport, Louisiana.
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misfitt
N 32° 27.190 W 093° 52.667
15S E 417497 N 3591006
This cemetery & marker are located in the very western edge of Shreveport located on highway US-80 next to the Shreveport Police Fireman training facility, located on the north side of the road at the cemetery entrance about .75 mile west of Pines Rd
Waymark Code: WM39F7
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/01/2008
Views: 9
“Oldest extant burial ground in city. Established as a private family cemetery in what was then rural Caddo Parish in the mid-1830's. Members of Eppes, Cates and related pioneer Caddo Parish families are buried here.”
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: Epps 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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