Oakland Cemetery

The cemetery the plaque tells through mayors and Confederate soldiers is also the city's epidemic ground. In 1873 yellow fever swept Shreveport; Wikipedia's account of the city says it killed 759 residents in 80 days, about 1,200 from August to November, and that roughly 800 victims were buried in a mass grave at Oakland. The same grounds hold the city's first Jewish burial plot, bought in 1858, which has its own marker on Sprague Street.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — steps away
  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 — 0.4 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 — 0.7 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.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 2.7 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.

More markers nearby

• James Burton — steps away
• First Jewish Cemetery — steps away
• Bishop Leonidas Polk — steps away
• Old B'nai Zion Temple — steps away