Star Cemetery

Star Cemetery has no grid. Graves sit where families put them, many marked by handmade stones carved with a hand pointing upward, a lamb or a dove, and others by Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias emblems. Counts disagree: the Star Cemetery Preservation Society tallied about 1,500 headstones in 2005, while a historian has estimated as many as 10,000 burials. Oral tradition says enslaved people were buried here before the cemetery was organized. It was listed on the National Register in 2002, and in 2022 the city put up a sign honoring it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 1.3 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 — 1.5 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 — 1.9 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 — 2.0 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.

More markers nearby

• St. Joseph's Cemetery — steps away
• Central School — 0.8 mi
• World's First Shriners Hospital — 0.8 mi
• St. Paul's Methodist Church — 0.9 mi