Old Shiloh Community

Two governors came out of the Union Parish country around Shiloh. William Wright Heard, born in 1853, was elected clerk of court at 23 and served in both houses of the legislature and as state auditor. As governor from 1900 to 1904 he created the first State Board of Education and a state prison system to replace private contract prisons. Ruffin G. Pleasant, born in Shiloh in 1871, studied at LSU, served as attorney general from 1912 and was governor from 1916 to 1920, when Louisiana mobilized for World War I and built eleven major military installations.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 20 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 33 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.

More markers nearby

• Bernice Depot — 4.3 mi
• Scott Place Mounds — 8.6 mi
• Cane Ridge / James W. Nicholson — 9.5 mi
• Old Wire Road — 14 mi