Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport, Louisiana City of Shreveport Skyline of Shreveport Flag of Shreveport, Louisiana Website City of Shreveport The Long Allen Bridge, a barns bridge spanning the Red River to connect Shreveport with Bossier City, as photographed from Bossier City Shreveport (/ ri vp rt/ shreev-port) is the third-largest town/city in the state of Louisiana and the 113th-largest town/city in the United States.
Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River.
The populace of Shreveport was 199,311 in 2010, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area populace exceeds 441,000. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Travel Destination ranks 111th in the United States, as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau. Shreveport was established in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to precarious a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly autonomous Republic of Texas and, before to that time, into Mexico. Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex region, where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet.
Main articles: History of Shreveport and Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport was established to launch a town at the meeting point of the Red River and the Texas Trail.
On March 20, 1839, the town was incorporated as Shreveport.
Shreveport soon became a center of steamboat commerce, mostly cotton and agricultural crops.
Shreveport also had a slave market, though slave trading was not as widespread as in other parts of the state.
By 1860, Shreveport had a populace of 2,200 no-charge citizens and 1,300 slaves inside the town/city limits.
"The Old and the New": Tall monument in Shreveport's historic Oakland Cemetery, which dates to 1847, is seen with the distant Regions Bank Tower, the city's tallest building, behind it.
During the American Civil War, Shreveport was the capital of Louisiana from 1863 to 1865, having succeeded Baton Rouge and Opelousas after each fell under Union control.
Skyline of Shreveport in 1953 Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium, home to the "Louisiana Hayride" from 1948 to 1960.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis tried to flee to Shreveport, intending to go down the Mississippi, when he left Richmond but was captured en route in Irwinville, Georgia.
Throughout the war, women in Shreveport did much to assist the soldiers fighting mostly far to the east.
"The women of Shreveport and vicinity labored long hours over their sewing machines to furnish their men with adequate underclothing and uniforms.
After the excitement of Fort Sumter, there was a great rush to get the volunteer companies ready and off to New Orleans...Forming a Military Aid Society, the ladies of Shreveport requested donations of wool and cotton yarn for knitting socks.
A Confederate minstrel show gave two performances to raise cash for the war accomplishment in Shreveport in December 1862.
In 1895, Justin Vincent Gras (1868 1959), a native of France, opened the biggest grocery and liquor store in Shreveport.
"What is good for Shreveport is good for me" became his motto.
By the 1910s, Huddie William Ledbetter also known as "Lead Belly", a blues singer and guitarist who eventually accomplished around the world fame was performing for Shreveport audiences in St.
Paul's Bottoms, the notorious red-light precinct of Shreveport which directed legally from 1903 to 1917.
Ledbetter began to precarious his own style of music after exposure to a range of musical influences on Shreveport's Fannin Street, a row of saloons, brothels, and dance halls in the Bottoms.
Bluesmen Jesse Thomas, Dave Alexander, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd and the early jazz and ragtime composer Bill Wray and composer Willian Christopher O'Hare were all from Shreveport.
Shreveport was home to the Louisiana Hayride radio program, broadcast weekly from the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium.
In 1963, headlines athwart the nation reported that musician Sam Cooke was arrested after his band tried to register at a "whites-only" Holiday Inn in Shreveport.
In the mid-1990s, the coming of riverboat gambling to Shreveport thriving various new patrons to the downtown and spurred a revitalization of the adjoining downtown and riverfront areas.
Shreveport was titled an All-American City in 1953, 1979, and 1999. Shreveport has a several cemeteries, with Forest Park, on St.
Shreveport sits on a low altitude overlooking the Red River.
Shreveport has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification Cfa).
Shreveport is also home to a branch of the National Weather Service which provides forecasts and warnings for the greater Ark-La-Tex Region.
Climate data for Shreveport, Louisiana (Shreveport Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.3 0.3 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.8 Below is a list of the several regions in the Greater Shreveport region of Caddo Parish: Slattery, whose home is one of five remaining structures in Shreveport designed by the noted architect N.
Robinson Place in Shreveport, former home of physician and developer George W.
Bliss-Hoyer House, assembled by Abel and Nettie Bliss, was later the home of Ewald Max Hoyer, the first mayor of Bossier City, who continued to reside in Shreveport.
Map of ethnic distribution in Shreveport, 2010 U.S.
As of the 2010 census the populace of Shreveport was 200,311.
Main article: Politics of Shreveport In Shreveport, City Hall is known as "Government Plaza".
Water fortress from SW section of Shreveport Courthouse in Shreveport The Louisiana State Office Building in Shreveport was originally the command posts of the former United Gas Corporation.
Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1839, Shreveport is the church seat of Caddo Parish.
A portion of east Shreveport extends into Bossier Parish due to the changing course of the Red River.
The town/city of Shreveport has a mayor-council government.
Main article: Economy of Shreveport Regions Tower, the tallest building in downtown Shreveport Health care is a primary industry in Shreveport.
Shreveport Convention Center Shreveport was once a primary player in United States petroleum business, and at one time could boast Standard Oil of Louisiana as a locally based company.
Beginning in 1930, the nation's busiest pipeline operator and massive integrated petroleum company, United Gas Corporation, was headquartered in Shreveport, until its hostile takeover by Pennzoil in 1968, and the subsequent forced consolidation .
Shreveport suffered severely from this recession, and many inhabitants left the area.
Shreveport has largely transitioned to a service economy.
Nearby Bossier City is home to one of the three horse racetracks in the state, Harrah's Louisiana Downs.
In May 2005, the Louisiana Boardwalk, a 550,000-square-foot (51,000 m2) shopping and entertainment complex, opened athwart the Red River in Bossier City, featuring supply shopping, a several restaurants, a 14 screen movie theater, a bowling complex, and a Bass Pro Shops.
A new 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) meeting hall was recently instead of in downtown Shreveport.
The Shreveport Convention Center is managed by SMG.
Shreveport is a primary medical center of the region and state.
The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport operates at period facilities once used by the former Confederate Memorial Medical Center.
Shreveport was home to Shreveport Operations, a General Motors plant that closed in August 2012.
7 City of Shreveport 2,729 Robinson Film Center is a non-profit organization on Texas Avenue in downtown Shreveport with new and older film offerings, matinees and evenings.
Louisiana is sometimes called "Hollywood South". A number of films have been made in Shreveport.
Selected films shot in Shreveport include: Additionally, a several tv series have been shot in Shreveport and the encircling area, including The Gates (2010), and Salem (2014).
The Louisiana Film Prize has spurred the creation of over 200 short films shot in Shreveport and northwest Louisiana by filmmakers from around the world since its inception in 2012.
Former Line Avenue School now homes part of the Northwestern State University nursing program in Shreveport.
Caddo Public Schools is a school precinct based in Shreveport.
Shreveport has a several colleges, including the Methodist-affiliated Centenary College (founded at Jackson, Louisiana, in 1825; relocated to Shreveport in 1908) and Louisiana State University in Shreveport, which opened as a two-year institution in 1967.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, the only medical school in northern Louisiana, opened in 1969.
Shreveport also has one of the biggest nursing schools in northern Louisiana, the Northwestern State University College of Nursing.
Louisiana Tech University at Shreveport-Bossier City was launched in 2012 offering their Executive MBA and chief campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs at the university's Shreveport Center. Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) offers a two-year associate's degree program.
Founded in 1973, Louisiana Baptist University and Theological Seminary is also positioned in Shreveport at 6301 Westport Avenue.
Since July 2007, Shreveport is home to a small-town Remington College campus.
This locale offers both diploma and degree programs, and is active in the Shreveport Community. First United Methodist Church on Texas Street in downtown Shreveport.
Memorial United Methodist Church in the Highland sections of Shreveport dates to 1913.
First Presbyterian Church is positioned at 900 Jordan Street in Shreveport near the large State Office Building.
Shreveport has churches of many denominations and sizes.
Former Governor Jimmie Davis, a Shreveport town/city commissioner too, taught history for a year under Dodd's tutelage.
Shreveport is home to Shreveport Community Church, an inter-denominational church belonging to the Assemblies of God. The congregation has experienced exponential expansion from the 100 members in 1950 to the more than 6,000 it claims now.
The church has produced a biblical musical, "Songs of the Season", amid the Christmas holidays for the past 20 years at the Historic Strand Theater in downtown Shreveport.
Mark's Cathedral, an Episcopal congregation at 908 Rutherford Street in the Highland section of Shreveport.
Mark's dates its establishment to the first theological service held in Shreveport in 1839.
Shreveport, historically, has had a large and civic-minded Jewish improve and has propel three Jewish mayors. Dating back to 1911, the state fairgrounds (and later Independence Stadium, formerly State Fair Stadium) has traditionally hosted a college football game or two amid the State Fair of Louisiana, an event presently dubbed the Red River State Fair Classic.
Shreveport was also home to a several now defunct football teams.
The Houston charter of the experienced World Football League relocated to Shreveport rebranded as the Shreveport Steamer midway through the 1974 season, but the charter along with the WFL closed midway through the 1975 season.
Another charter titled the Shreveport Steamers played as a member of the American Football Association from 1979 until folding in 1981.
Shreveport's Independence Stadium was also home to the Shreveport Pirates, an unsuccessful experienced Canadian Football League charter that opened play in 1994 but closed after the 1995 season.
The most memorable team was the Shreveport Captains of the Texas League.
Shreveport's most recent autonomous baseball team, the Shreveport-Bossier Captains, ceased operations in 2011 and moved to Laredo, Texas.
Shreveport is home to a several amateur sports clubs.
The Shreveport Mudbugs are a Tier II junior ice hockey team that has competed in the North American Hockey League since 2016.
Also playing their inaugural season in 2016, the Shreveport Rafters FC compete in the National Premier Soccer League, a fourth tier league.
The Rafters FC has also period for 2017 to include the Shreveport Lady Rafters FC to compete in the Women's Premier Soccer League.
The LSU Shreveport Pilots compete in the NAIA as a member of the Red River Athletic Conference.
Shreveport is home to a several theatres, exhibitions, and performing arts groups, including: Artspace Shreveport Shreveport House Concerts www.shreveporthouseconcerts.org Shreveport Little Theatre www.shreveportlittletheatre.com Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Shreveport Opera Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Theatre of the Performing Arts of Shreveport Mardi Gras celebrations in Shreveport date to the mid 19th century when krewes and parades were organized along the lines of those of New Orleans.
Mardi Gras in Shreveport did not survive the cancellations caused by World War I.
Attempts to revive it in the 1920s were unsuccessful, and the last Carnival celebrations in Shreveport for decades were held in 1927.
Mardi Gras in Shreveport was revived beginning in 1984 with the organization of the Krewe of Apollo.
Today, Mardi Gras is again an meaningful part of the cultural life of the Shreveport urbane area. Chimp Haven, chimpanzee sanctuary, Keithville, LA (Shreveport suburb) Gators and Friends, alligator and exotic animal park, Greenwood, LA (Shreveport suburb) Louisiana Boardwalk Bossier City, opposite the Shreveport Central Business District Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, positioned in a landmark building at the State Fair Grounds Pioneer Heritage Center at Louisiana State University in Shreveport ground Shreveport Municipal Auditorium and Louisiana Hayride Museum Shreveport Water Works Museum Yogie and Friends Exotic Cat Sanctuary, Frierson, LA (Shreveport suburb) Further information: Media in Shreveport, Louisiana KSLA, CBS affiliate, is the earliest tv station in Shreveport.
Shreveport is served by a range of print publications.
The primary daily journal serving the Shreveport-Bossier and Ark-La-Tex region is the Shreveport Times.
Its command posts are positioned in downtown Shreveport near Interstate 20.
A second primary paper, the afternoon Shreveport Journal, ceased printed announcement in 1991.
Other lesser non-daily newspapers in the region include The Shreveport Sun, the Caddo Citizen.
In addition alternative publications include, The Forum Newsweekly, City Lights, SB Magazine and "The Shreveport Catalyst".
Twice annually, North Louisiana History, the journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association, is presented in Shreveport.
Shreveport and Bossier City are served by two primary cable tv systems: Shreveport is served by Comcast and Bossier City is served by Suddenlink.
Shreveport is home to a several airways broadcasts, especially KWKH and KEEL, having reputations beyond the city.
The three commercial tv outlets are KSLA, CBS, established in 1954; KTBS-TV, ABC, established in 1955, and KTAL-TV, appeared in Shreveport in September 1961 as the NBC station.
KTAL, formerly known as KCMC of Texarkana, was a CBS supply before to conversion to NBC, when it began to cover Shreveport as well as Texarkana.
Barksdale Air Force Base is positioned in Bossier Parish athwart the river from Shreveport, which donated the territory for its assembly in the 1920s.
Shreveport is home to the two 108th Cavalry Squadron, the reconnaissance element of the 256th Infantry Brigade.
Main article: Transportation in Shreveport Shreveport's past reflects the need for mass transit and enhance roads.
Commuter rail systems in Shreveport flourished for many decades, and rail car lines extended out to non-urban areas.
The small-town enhance transit provider, Spor - Tran, provides moderately extensive bus service throughout Shreveport and Bossier City.
Shreveport lies along the route of the proposed Interstate 69 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) superhighway that will link Canada, the U.S.
Shreveport is served by two airports.
The larger is Shreveport Regional Airport (SHV), established in 1952, and is served by Allegiant Air (to Las Vegas and Orlando), American Airlines (to Dallas/Ft.
The lesser airport, Shreveport Downtown Airport (DTN), was assembled in 1931 and is positioned north of the Downtown Business District along the Red River.
It is presently a general aviation/reliever airport, but was originally Shreveport's commercial airport.
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