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Author: Gary D. Joiner, PhD & Cheryl White, PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1626198381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Shreveport's Cemetery and those that are known to be buried there.
Author: Gary D. Joiner PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-03-09
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1625853793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly eight hundred victims of a virulent yellow fever epidemic that struck the city in 1873. Others interred include Annie McCune, the famous Shreveport madam who operated a brothel in the city's red-light district, as well as hundreds of Civil War soldiers, city founders and the first African American physician, Dr. Dickerson Alphonse Smith. Some souls are said to haunt the grounds still. Join authors Gary D. Joiner and Cheryl White and discover some of Shreveport's oldest stories.
Author: Gary D. Joiner, PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-01-02
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1467152404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPause for a spell to visit with the remarkable inhabitants of Greenwood Cemetery. Greenwood Cemetery is resplendent in its gardenlike setting, gently rolling hills, sharply edged bluffs, impressively carved monuments and row after row of military gravestones. It is a social laboratory that helps those get to know who was here before and what their families wish future generations to remember about them. Visitors can find heroes and villains, mayors, bankers, industrialists, the well-to-do, and the forgotten. Some monuments are fascinating simply for their carved angels, others poignant in their descriptions of lives cut short. Indeed, all the markers have a story to tell. The most notable among them are included in this book. Stroll through Greenwood with Dr. Gary Joiner and learn a thing or two about those who rest here.
Author: Cheryl White
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2015-03-09
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781540212818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly eight hundred victims of a virulent yellow fever epidemic that struck the city in 1873. Others interred include Annie McCune, the famous Shreveport madam who operated a brothel in the city's red-light district, as well as hundreds of Civil War soldiers, city founders and the first African American physician, Dr. Dickerson Alphonse Smith. Some souls are said to haunt the grounds still. Join authors Gary D. Joiner and Cheryl White and discover some of Shreveport's oldest stories.
Author: Very Reverend Peter B. Mangum, JCL; W. Ryan Smith, MA; Cheryl H. White, PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467150908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the autumn of 1873, one of the worst yellow fever epidemics in U.S. history swept through Shreveport. As the deadly scourge claimed a quarter of the town's population, the dedicated efforts of five missionary priests offered a call to hope, even as they laid down their own lives in the struggle. True martyrdom is vanishingly rare, extolled as the highest possible sacrifice, yet Shreveport bore abundant witness through these five saintly priests. Their heroism in the midst of this tragic chapter is captured here by a trio of authors, winding a narrative that transcends history to reveal complex themes of virtue, sacrifice and response in times of human crisis and suffering.
Author: Brock, Eric J.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2001-01-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781455603862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, Shreveport boasts the largest collection of important twentieth-century buildings in the state of Louisiana, and is surpassed only by New Orleans in the number of locations listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Well-known Shreveport historian Eric J. Brock details the history of the city's commerce, civic development, neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, peculiar events, culture, religion, and education. Based on his columns for the long-running series, "The Presence of the Past," which appeared weekly in the Shreveport JournalPage, it is the result of many years of documentation and research. One can witness the breakup of the Great Raft, relive the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, sing along at the Louisiana Hayride, and retrace the steps of Martin Luther King, Jr. Written in response to an overwhelming number of requests and suggestions for a book of its kind, Eric Brock's Shreveport should fill the void for academic books depicting the area.
Author: Marguerite R. Plummer
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1893619087
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780865180222
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1040
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