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Shreveport (/ ˈʃriːvpɔːrt / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [ 4 ]
History of Louisiana. Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a section of land sold to the company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in the year of 1835, during the period of Indian Removal. [1]
Shreveport (/ ˈʃriːvpɔːrt / SHREEV-port), officially the City of Shreveport, is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It has a population of 187,593 in 2020. [3] It is the third most populous city in Louisiana (after New Orleans and Baton Rouge).
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [ 2 ] or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto. [ 3 ] At the 2020 United States census, the ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.
Shreveport, city, seat (1838) of Caddo parish, northwestern corner of Louisiana, U.S., on the Red River, opposite Bossier City. In 1835 Henry Miller Shreve, a river captain and steamboat builder, opened the Red River for navigation by clearing it of a 165-mile (266-km) jam of natural debris called.
Shreveport, officially the City of Shreveport, is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It has a population of 187,593 in 2020. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana. It was founded in 1836 where the Red River meets the Texas Trail and US Highway 80.
Shreveport, Louisiana, downtown skyline over the Red River. Shreveport is tucked up in Louisiana’s northwestern corner, sitting in the center of the Ark-La-Tex tri-state region. At this convergent point, Arkansas , Louisiana, and Texas borders meet.
Caddo Parish (French: Paroisse de Caddo) (/ ˈkædoʊ /) is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. [1] The parish seat and largest city is Shreveport, which developed along the Red River.
Shreveport, Louisiana, was founded in 1836, by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas and, prior to that time, into Mexico.