Centenary College of Louisiana

The plaque stops at the founding; the Shreveport campus has a history of its own. The Centenary College Choir formed in 1941 and later toured nationally and abroad. In 1942 the college took over Dodd College, a junior college for women, which became a pre-flight training site for Air Force cadets. In the 1920s and 1930s the football team beat Baylor, LSU, Rice, SMU and Texas A&M, and the sport returned in 2024. The Gold Dome, a geodesic arena seating 3,000, was finished in 1971. Both Confederate and Union troops had occupied the earlier campus at Jackson.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 1.8 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 2.0 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.
• Spring Street Museum — 2.3 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 — 2.7 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.

More markers nearby

• Coates Bluff — 0.8 mi
• Masonic Temple — 0.9 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 0.9 mi
• Old Agudath Achim Synagogue — 1.1 mi