Independence Stadium
Independence Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. Formerly known as State Fair Stadium and Fairgrounds Stadium, the municipally owned stadium is the site of the annual Independence Bowl post-season college football game, first held in 1976 as the Bicentennial Bowl.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stadium
- Description: stadium owned by the city of Shreveport, Louisiana
- Also known as: “State Fair Stadium”
- Address: 3301 Pershing Boulevard, Shreveport, LA 71107
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hirsch Memorial Coliseum and Fair Grounds Field.
Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
Stadium
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hirsch Memorial Coliseum is 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Shreveport, Louisiana, designed by the late local architect Edward F. Neild Jr. who, with his father in 1937, had designed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport. Hirsch Memorial Coliseum is situated 920 feet northeast of Independence Stadium.
Fair Grounds Field
Stadium
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fair Grounds Field was a baseball stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, located next to Independence Stadium on the Louisiana State Fair Grounds just off Interstate 20. Fair Grounds Field is situated 3,100 feet east of Independence Stadium.
Fair Park Middle School
School
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fair Park Middle School is a former high school located at 3222 Greenwood Road in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. The school was originally named Fair Park High School when it opened in 1928, and it was the second high school in the city. Fair Park Middle School is situated 1,700 feet north of Independence Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shreveport and Bossier City.
Shreveport
Bossier City
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bossier City is the second-largest city in Northern Louisiana and the largest city in Bossier Parish. Home to Barksdale Air Force Base, which hosts several Air Force commands, as well as the backup landing site of Air Force One, Bossier City's recent history revolves largely around the U.S. military.
Independence Stadium
- Categories: recreation area, football, sports location, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Caddo, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.47541° or 32° 28′ 32″ northLongitude
-93.79199° or 93° 47′ 31″ westInception
1925Operator
City of ShreveportOpen location code
8648F6G5+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 134398078OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadiumOpenStreetMap feature
sport=american_footballWikidata ID
Q3150014
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Portuguese—“Independence Stadium” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Independence Stadium”
- French: “Independence Stadium”
- Japanese: “インディペンデンス・スタジアム”
- Japanese: “インディペンデンス・ストゥーディアム”
- Korean: “인디펜던스 스타디움”
- Persian: “ورزشگاه ایندپندنس”
- Portuguese: “Independence Stadium (Shreveport)”
- Portuguese: “Independence Stadium”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Independence Stadium”. Photo: AllisonFoley, CC BY-SA 3.0.