Keithville Methodist Church

Keithville began in the early 1880s, when the Southern Pacific and Houston-Shreveport railroads met on land owned by the Keith brothers. One of them, Perry Polk Keith, a Methodist, donated the ground for the congregation that became Keithville United Methodist Church. He went on to serve four terms in the Louisiana House, from 1912 to 1928. The community appears in the state's story in smaller ways too: country singer Claude King, who wrote Wolverton Mountain, is counted among its notable people, and a state correctional center operated in the nature park here until July 2012.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 10 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.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 10 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.
• 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.
• Spring Street Museum — 13 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.

More markers nearby

• Pioneer Heritage Center — 10 mi
• Commemorating First Oil Well in Caddo Parish, LA — 10 mi
• Louisiana State Exhibit Bldg. — 10 mi
• Dodd College — 11 mi