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The city shares the same television and radio markets with Shreveport and the Texarkana metropolitan area as part of the Ark-La-Tex. In mainstream media, "Bossier City" is a song by David Allan Coe, in which he sings, "And it sure smells like snow in Bossier City..." Johnny Rodriguez recorded a song called "Achin' Bossier City Backyard Blues ...
Bossier Parish (/ ˈ b oʊ ʒ ər / BOH-zhər; French: Paroisse de Bossier [paʁwas də bɔsje]) is a parish located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana.At the 2020 census, the population was 128,746.
The 2020 census tabulation for the city's population was 201,573, [5] while the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area had a population of 393,406. [ 6 ] Shreveport 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 ...
The Bossier City Council at its meeting on Dec. 3, 2024. in Bossier City, La. ©Bossier City, Louisiana | Facebook (The Center Square) – After two years of legal battles and public debate, the ...
Benton is a town in, and the parish seat of, Bossier Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,048 in 2020. [ 2 ] The town is named for 19th century U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton , a Democrat from Missouri and an ally of U.S. President Andrew Jackson .
Webster Parish is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City–Minden CSA. Among the first settlers in Webster Parish was Newett Drew, a native of Virginia, who about 1818 established a grist mill at the former Overton community near Minden. At this time the area was Natchitoches Parish and later Overton became the Parish Seat of Claiborne Parish in ...
Five parishes were created in 1843: Bossier, DeSoto, Franklin, Sabine, and Tensas. Morehouse Parish and Vermilion Parish were formed from Ouachita and Lafayette parishes, respectively, in 1844. The next year, Jackson Parish was formed, the old county units were abandoned, and the units were officially referred to as "parishes".
Prior to 1839, the United States government forcibly removed the Caddo Nation of Native Americans—longtime local inhabitants who had first settled the area over 1,000 years before Europeans' 16th-century arrival in mainland North America—from the area of Northern Louisiana that included the parcel that would later become the town of Plain Dealing.