Built as Broadmoor School in 1929. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1991. Oldest extant burial ground in city. Established as a private family cemetery in what was then rural Caddo Parish in the mid-1830s. Members of Eppes, Cates, and related pioneer Caddo Parish families are buried here.
Northern portion is oldest section of cemetery.
Dating from the 1840s, this was once the family burial ground of the Pickens family, planters, of Caddo Parish. Among those buried here is Israel Wilson Pickens, Caddo Parish Sheriff from 1862-1865, during which time Shreveport was Confederate Capital of Louisiana. Established about 1840. Many prominent pioneer Caddo parish settlers are buried here, including Dr. Alford Flournoy, Dr. J. B. Wise, and Judge David Creswell, among many others. Dr. Orestes Hull, brother of U. S. Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, is buried here also.