Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery opened in 1847, making it Shreveport's oldest burial ground. Thirty-four acres hold graves from the 1840s to the present—city founders, Civil War officers, and generations of families who built what became Northwest Louisiana's largest city. The Victorian monuments and ornate ironwork mark a period when death required public permanence. What survives here is a landscape that holds more than names. It holds the physical record of who stayed, who fought, who endured. The Civil War officers buried here chose this ground knowing it would outlast them. The founders rest under iron and stone that have weathered more than a century and a half. A self-guided walking tour is available at the gate. The cemetery opens at dawn and closes at dusk. Admission is free. You walk among the city's memory, carved and forged, still standing.