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Shreveport Shreveport is the third-largest city
and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as
being the 99th-largest city in the United States. It is the seat of
Caddo Parish and extends slightly into neighboring Bossier Parish. Bossier City is separated from Shreveport by the Red River. The population was 200,145 at the 2000 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City
Metropolitan Area population exceeds
375,000. 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 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 City as
"Shreveport-Bossier". During the American Civil War, Shreveport was the capital of Louisiana from 1863-1865,
having succeeded, first, Baton Rouge, and then Opelousas after each fell under Union control. The city was a Confederate stronghold throughout the war and was the site of the
headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi
Department of the Confederate Army. Isolated
from events in the east, the Civil War continued in the Trans-Mississippi
theater for several weeks after Robert E. Lee's surrender in April 1865, and the Trans-Mississippi was the
last Confederate command to surrender, on May 26, 1865. Confederate President
Jefferson Davis attempted to flee to Shreveport when he left Richmond but was captured in Irwinville, Georgia en route. By the 1910s, Huddie William
Ledbetter - also known as "Leadbelly"
(1889-1949), a blues singer and guitarist who eventually achieved worldwide fame - was
performing for Shreveport audiences in St. Paul's Bottoms, the notorious
red light district of Shreveport which operated legally from 1903-1917.
Ledbetter began to develop his own style of music after exposure to a variety of
musical influences on Shreveport's Fannin Street, a row of saloons, brothels, and dance halls in the
Bottoms. Shreveport was also home
to the "Louisiana Hayride" radio program, broadcast weekly from the Shreveport Municipal
Auditorium. During its heyday from 1948-1960, this program spawned the careers of some of the greatest
names in American music. The Hayride featured names such as Hank Williams, Sr. and Elvis Presley, who obtained his start at this
venue. Today the city has largely
transitioned to a service economy. In particular, the area has seen a rapid
growth in the gaming industry, hosting various riverboat gambling casinos, and was second only to New Orleans in Louisiana tourism before
Hurricane Katrina. Nearby Bossier City is home to one of the three horse racetracks in the state,
Harrah's Louisiana Downs. Casinos in Shreveport-Bossier include
Sam's Town Casino, Eldorado Casino, Horseshoe Casino, Boomtown
Casino, and Diamond Jacks
Casino (formerly Isle of Capri). The
Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau is the official tourism
information agency for the region. The bureau maintains a comprehensive database
of restaurants, accommodations, attractions and
events. As of November 2008, the
recent excitement about the Haynesville Shale has been a boon to Shreveport and the surrounding areas. Many
new jobs in the natural gas industry are expected to be created over the next
few years and local residents are enjoying large bonuses for signing mineral
rights leases up to $25,000 per acre. However, the recent economic turndown has
resulted in a lower market price for natural gas and slower-than-expected drilling activity. The city itself
stands to profit by leasing the mineral rights on public lands in the near
future as neighboring municipalities have already
done. Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $35,414 (it
was $30,526 in 2000)
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