Bellevue Cemetery

Bellevue held the parish courthouse through the cotton years. Cotton had built the town, and the railroads reshaped the parish around it. Haughton, ten miles away on the line, became its shipping point, and the St. Louis Southwestern ran through Benton. In September 1888 voters were asked whether to move the parish seat to Benton. The change was slow in coming, but it came, and the courthouse left Bellevue. The cemetery is the part of the old seat that stayed put.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 17 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Spring Street Museum — 17 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 17 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 18 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Bossier Parish Court Police Jury — steps away
• Hughes House — 13 mi
• Confederate Monument — 13 mi
• Oakland Plantation — 14 mi