Paul Strickland, president of the Oakland Cemetery and Preservation Society, addressed the crowd Saturday at the dedication of the Yellow Fever Memorial at Oakland Cemetery. The memorial names almost all of the approximately 800 victims buried in the Yellow Fever Mound during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1873.

LSUS faculty play key role in planning, construction of Shreveport yellow fever memorial

by Minden Press-Herald Oct 9, 2023

written by Minden Press-Herald Oct 9, 2023

SHREVEPORT -- “We no longer have funerals. People are blotted out of existence.” That was an observation made in the upstart Daily Times (now the Shreveport Times) near the height of the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1873. That

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