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Merciful Frost Victorian Dinner, Nov. 19

Time is running out for you to get tickets to an event 150 years in the making- The Merciful Frost Victorian Banquet, the event celebrating the end of Shreveport’s 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic. Tickets to this once-in-a- sesquicentennial banquet are available now and are extremely limited. In the late summer and early fall of 1873 […]

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150 Years & a Shrine: Holy Trinity Catholic Church

This is a big and eventful year for Holy Trinity Catholic Church located at 315 Marshall Street in downtown Shreveport. The church is celebrating its 150th anniversary along with the special commemoration of the devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic in Shreveport. The church has also been designated a Minor Shrine of the Five Priests. This designation […]

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Yellow Fever 150th Commemoration Plans

One of the buildings that was around during the horror of Shreveport’s 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic was the setting for the press event officially announcing the Yellow Fever 150 Year Commemoration this week. In the 1870’s, the current Spring Street Museum at 525 Spring Street was a bank. Today, it survives to help tell the […]

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