Shreveport - Bossier City Metropolitan Area
Shreveport - Bossier City Metropolitan Area

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: University-Press.org

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781230527147

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Belcher, Louisiana, Benton, Louisiana, Blanchard, Louisiana, Bossier City, Louisiana, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Eastwood, Louisiana, Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet High School, Frierson, Louisiana, Gilliam, Louisiana, Grand Cane, Louisiana, Greenwood, Louisiana, Haughton, Louisiana, Hosston, Louisiana, Ida, Louisiana, Keachi, Louisiana, Keithville, Louisiana, Kingston, Louisiana, Logansport, Louisiana, Longstreet, Louisiana, Mansfield, Louisiana, Mooringsport, Louisiana, Oil City, Louisiana, Plain Dealing, Louisiana, Red Chute, Louisiana, Rodessa, Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, South Mansfield, Louisiana, Stanley, Louisiana, Stonewall, Louisiana, Vivian, Louisiana. Excerpt: Shreveport is the third largest city in the U.S State of Louisiana and the 108th-largest city in the United States. It is the seat of Caddo Parish and extends along the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish. Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population was 199,311 at the 2010 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 439,800.. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 117th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau. Shreveport was founded in 1805 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. Shreveport is the commercial and cultural center of the Ark-La-Tex, the area where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. Many people in the community refer to the two cities of Shreveport and Bossier...

Shreveport and Bossier City
Shreveport and Bossier City

Author: Neil Johnson

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780807119952

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Neil Johnson, a native Shreveporter and one of Louisiana's finest photographers, here presents a lovingly crafted portrait of his hometown and its companion city across the Red River. No one else could have done it better. For longtime residents, Johnson's words and photographs will carry the comfortable familiarity of a family album - yet one that also holds new discoveries waiting to be made. For visitors, the book will be a powerful introduction and guide. As veteran Shreveport journalist Jim Montgomery points out in his informative Foreword, Shreveport and Bossier City are a multifaceted place, a place of contrasts: a part of Louisiana, yet with an unmistakable touch of Texas; possessed of a Sun Belt vitality, yet cherishing strong links to the traditions of the Old South. Neil Johnson manages to capture on film the authentic diversity of this place of pulsating repose.

Eric Brock's Shreveport
Eric Brock's Shreveport

Author: Brock, Eric J.

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 2001-01-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781455603862

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Today, Shreveport boasts the largest collection of important twentieth-century buildings in the state of Louisiana, and is surpassed only by New Orleans in the number of locations listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Well-known Shreveport historian Eric J. Brock details the history of the city's commerce, civic development, neighborhoods, architecture, cemeteries, peculiar events, culture, religion, and education. Based on his columns for the long-running series, "The Presence of the Past," which appeared weekly in the Shreveport JournalPage, it is the result of many years of documentation and research. One can witness the breakup of the Great Raft, relive the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, sing along at the Louisiana Hayride, and retrace the steps of Martin Luther King, Jr. Written in response to an overwhelming number of requests and suggestions for a book of its kind, Eric Brock's Shreveport should fill the void for academic books depicting the area.

Bossier City
Bossier City

Author: Kevin Bryant Jones

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-06-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439651817

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Bossier City sprung up around cotton fields, railroads, steamboats, and factories as the little town across from Shreveport. Today, the city thrives as the fastest growing in Louisiana. The tight-knit community of citizens who have called Bossier City home for several generations has grown to include an influx of newer transplants and Air Force personnel. "Old Bossier" remains the heart of the city, and its established families and businesses are proud to retain the simple nature of the past. This book remembers days of community and closeness, capturing the era when people built their own houses out of materials they had, walked downtown to a diner or market, and saw the first bomber fly overhead. This collection captures 1920s architecture, hardworking residents, and downtown roots but also celebrates the emergent and progressive nature of Bossier City. Today, the arts are flourishing, the stores are busy, the Barksdale Air Force Base is the jewel of the city, and the strong community identity is continually evolving.

The Commissioner
The Commissioner

Author: Bill Keith

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781455602759

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With a true journalistic tone, Keith delivers an unparalleled account of the murder of Louisiana's political advertiser Jim Leslie and the case against Shreveport's corrupt police commissioner George D'Artois. Keith, who covered the crimes as a reporter for the Shreveport Times, recalls firsthand the tumultuous investigation of D'Artois and his plan to bring mob boss Carlos Marcello's organized crime to Shreveport. The Commissioner is a gripping description of Keith's personal experiences involving Leslie's assassination and the five courageous lawmen who struggled to stop D'Artois' tyranny.

The Jewish Community of Shreveport
The Jewish Community of Shreveport

Author: Eric J. Brock

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738514888

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The Jewish presence in northwest Louisiana actually predates the establishment of Shreveport in 1836. From the very beginning, Jews have been part of the city's civic, social, and mercantile life. Pioneer settlers began holding services in private homes in the 1840s, and by 1858 the community was sufficiently large enough to consecrate a Jewish cemetery and the first Jewish benevolent association, a forerunner of today's North Louisiana Jewish Federation. In 1859, the first congregation was founded. In The Jewish Community of Shreveport the rich history of this influential and vibrant citizenry is chronicled by well-known Louisiana historian Eric J. Brock, archivist of Shreveport's B'nai Zion Temple. Nearly 18 decades of Jewish life in Shreveport are depicted in over 200 vintage images, many of which are previously unpublished. Both of the city's synagogues, B'nai Zion and Agudath Achim, are represented, as are many of the rabbis, business leaders, political leaders (including three mayors), and laypeople from the community's long history.