Town of Keachi, LA

Keachi, pronounced key-chai and also spelled Keatchie or Keachie, has never been large: it sits in northwestern DeSoto Parish, within the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area. It had 316 residents in 1880, 345 in 1960 and 243 in 2020. Its Presbyterian church dates to 1848, and the town's National Register listings include the Allen House, the Keachi Store, Liberty Lodge, The Oaks, the Prude, Spell and Swearingen houses, and the Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Many of the cotton farmers who settled the place held enslaved people.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 19 mi
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 21 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 — 21 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 — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Keithville Methodist Church — 11 mi
• International Boundary Marker — 13 mi
• Deadwood Cemetery — 14 mi
• Site of Bethany — 15 mi