Pioneer Heritage Center

William Joseph Hutchinson built the Caspiana House in 1856 on his plantation at Caspiana, and his family gave it to LSUS in 1977, the first building the center received. It now stands among seven structures. The Thrasher House is a log dogtrot that Thomas Zilks built in 1850 and that was moved in 1981 from near Castor. The grounds also hold the Webb & Webb Commissary, a doctor's office, a detached kitchen set apart to reduce fire risk and a blacksmith shop. The center is open by appointment for groups, schools and events.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 2.9 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 — 5.8 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 — 6.0 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 — 6.3 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.

More markers nearby

• Centenary College of Louisiana — 4.0 mi
• Coates Bluff — 4.4 mi
• World's First Shriners Hospital — 4.7 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 4.7 mi