Wright's Tower
Submitted by Ben Becker
Confederate Navy Yard - Louisiana
Oneblock west near mouth of Cross Bayou at Red River the ironclad Missouri and ram Webb built. Missouri armored with railroad iron, In 1863 Webb fought U.S.S. Indianola near Vicksburg....
- louisiana
- civil war
Centenary College of Louisiana
Founded 1825 at Jackson, LA., by the State of Louisiana, the college was transferred to the Methodist Church in 1845. Relocated at Shreveport in 1908, Centenary is the oldest privately operated...
- louisiana
- education
Dodd College
Private liberal arts junior college for girls, 1927-1942. Founded by Dr. M.E. Dodd, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Shreveport. Two original buildings now part of First Baptist Church. President's...
- louisiana
- education
Pickens Cemetery
Dating from the 1840s, this was once the family burial ground of the Pickens family, planters, of Caddo Parish. Among those buried here is Israel Wilson Pickens, Caddo Parish Sheriff...
- louisiana
- cemetery
Newtonbrook School Section No. 5
Submitted by @heritagetoronto
The Enslaved
Beneath this alley of oaks were 20 double cabins that housed enslaved families from 1829 to 1862. They were the workforce for Marigny's Fontainebleau Plantation and included skilled steam...
- louisiana
- african-american
Native Peoples
Native tribes have lived in this area for over 2,500 years. The oldest evidence dates to 500 BCE from footed pottery shards belonging to people of the Tchefuncte Culture. Hunter-gatherers...
- louisiana
- native americans
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
Blues singer from Mooringsport, La. (1888-1949). He played 12 string guitar on Shreveport's Fannin St., sang his way out of prison, and became a folk hero with songs like "Goodnight Irene,"...
- louisiana
- entertainment
- african american
First Over Water Oil Well
The world’s first over water oil well was completed in Caddo Lake in 1911. The Ferry Lake No. 1 was erected by Gulf Refining Co. The well bottomed at 2,185 feet and produced 450 barrels per day.
- louisiana
- commerce
3rd Caddo Courthouse
Parish Judge Washington Jenkins, on Nov. 4, 1840, sold his 2-story frame house to Caddo Parish for a courthouse. A jail replaced the kitchen. Courthouse was sold at foreclosure in 1855 at its own door.
- louisiana
- politics
Moncla
Colonized in the late 1700s.Named forDr. Joseph Thibault Moncla1806-1883 Emigrant of Moncla, France, and husband of Arsene Bordelon. This settlement, on the south bank of the Red River, included...
- louisiana
- settlement
First Shriners Hospital
On this site a dedicated group of men from the Shriners International Fraternity began the legacy of providing free healthcare services to children by opening the world's First Shriners Hospital...
- louisiana
- hospital
Marksville "Colored" School Site
C.P. Couvillion donated this site in 1905 for the construction of a school for "Negroes" in the Marksville area. Its first eighth grade class began in 1933. First graduation was in 1940. Classes...
- louisiana
- african-american
Congregational First Baptist Church
Organized in 1889 under the leadership of Rev. J.W. Womack of Beggs, Oklahoma. Rev. and Mrs. Womack opened the first private "colored" school in Avoyelles Parish. Rev. A.L. Holmes was pastor of...
- louisiana
- african-american
St. George Greek Orthodox Church
Designed by J.P Annan. Built in 1934. Named as a memorial to the St. George Church in New Ephesus, Greece, which was destroyed by the Turks 1917. Congregation founded 1917.
- louisiana
- church
McNeill Street Pumping Station
National Historic Civil Engineering LandmarkLast operating steam-powered water equipment used in U.S. Provided 106 years of water treatment for Shreveport.Completed 1887 Commemorated 1999.
- louisiana
- engineering
- landmark
Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary
LAST MOUNTAIN LAKE BIRD SANCTUARYOn the recommendation of Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant- Governor of the North-West Territories, this sanctuary was set aside in 1887 for the protection of wildfowl,...
- saskatchewan...
Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary 1887-1987
LAST MOUNTAIN LAKE BIRD SANCTUARY 1997-1987On June 8,1887 the government of Canada "...reserved from sale and settlement, and set apart as breeding grounds for wildfowl..." the islands and parts...
- canada saska...
John and Yoko Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal 1969
1969Bed-In of John & YokoFrom May 26 to June 2nd, 1969, John Lennon & Yoko Ono made history when they decided to stage their second bed-in for peace in suite 1742 at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth...
- beatles
- lennon
- yoko
- montreal
- bed-in
- peace