Hughes House

William Clark Hughes was born in 1868 in the house that now stands here, then at Rocky Mount, the son of a Confederate captain. He served in the Louisiana House from 1904 to his death, across seven governors from Newton Blanchard to Huey Long, and was Speaker from 1926 to 1928 under Oramel Simpson. When Long took over, he picked the next Speaker, John Fournet. Hughes farmed Kingston Plantation, and on August 29, 1930 he died when lightning charged a metal cistern he was using to fight a fire. He is buried at Rocky Mount Cemetery.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 12 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.
• Spring Street Museum — 12 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 Municipal Auditorium — 13 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.
• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum — 14 mi
  The state's first public petroleum museum in Oil City, on the 1905 Caddo Parish strike and the 1911 over-water well on Caddo Lake, with a derrick and a log-jam exhibit.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Monument — 1.0 mi
• Mounds Plantation — 5.1 mi
• Louisiana Maneuvers Led by General Patton — 6.5 mi
• Belcher Mound — 6.7 mi