Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

## 19th century

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* 1836 – Shreve Town Company organized; named for Henry Miller Shreve, one of its members.[1]
* 1837 – Shreve Town Company begins selling plots of land.[1]
* 1838 – Shreve Town becomes seat of newly formed Caddo Parish.[2][3]
* 1839
* Town of Shreveport incorporated.[4][1]
* John Octavius Sewall elected mayor.[5]
* 1841 – Caddo Gazette newspaper begins publication.[6]
* 1847 – Burial ground established.[7]
* 1850
* Population: 1,728.
* Brewer's Hall built (approximate date).[8]
* 1852 – South-Western newspaper begins publication.[6]
* 1853 – Yellow fever outbreak.[1]
* 1858 – Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad begins operating.[1]
* 1860 – Population: 2,190.
* 1861 – St. Mary's Convent founded.[8]
* 1863 – Shreveport designated Louisiana Confederate capital (until 1865).[8][9]
* 1866 – Charity Hospital established.[10]
* 1870 – Population: 4,607.
* 1871
* Shreveport becomes a city.[4]
* Daily Shreveport Times newspaper begins publication.[6]
* Crisp's Gaiety Theater built.[8]
* 1873
* Dallas-Shreveport railway in operation.[8][1]
* Yellow fever outbreak.[1][11]
* 1879 – Shreveport Daily Standard newspaper begins publication.[6]
* 1880
* First Presbyterian Church built.[8]
* Population: 8,009.
* 1886 – Grand Opera House built.[8]
* 1887 – Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station built.
* 1890
* Shreveport Library Association formed.[12]
* Population: 11,979.[4]
* 1895 – Evening Judge newspaper in publication.[6]
* 1896 – Holy Trinity Catholic Church rebuilt.[8]
* 1899 – Genevieve Orphanage established.[4]
* 1900 – Population: 16,013.[4]

## 20th century

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* 1901 – People's Library established.[12]
* 1902 – Shreveport Journal newspaper in publication.[6]
* 1905 – Agudath Achim Synagogue dedicated.[13]
* 1906 – Oil discovered at Caddo Lake in vicinity of Shreveport.[14]
* 1907 – Nearby Bossier City incorporated.[10]
* 1909 – Centenary College of Louisiana relocated to Shreveport from Jackson.
* 1910
* Schumpert Memorial Hospital[4] and Chamber of Commerce[15] established.
* Population: 28,015.[4]
* 1912 – United States Post Office and Courthouse built.[8]
* 1915 – Traffic Street Bridge built.[10]
* 1920 – Population: 43,874.
* 1922
* Shreveport Art Club active.[15][16]
* Shriners Hospitals for Children opened.
* 1923 – Public library built.[17]
* 1925 – Strand Theatre built.[18]
* 1926
* KWKH radio begins broadcasting.
* Caddo Parish courthouse built.[8]
* 1927 – Dodd College established.[14]
* 1928
* KRMD and KTBS radio begin broadcasting.[19]
* Woman's Auxiliary to the Shreveport Medical Society formed.[20]
* 1929 – Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium built.
* 1930
* East Texas Oil Field discovered in vicinity of Shreveport.[8]
* Population: 76,655.
* 1931 – Shreveport Downtown Airport begins operating.[2]
* 1933 – U.S. military Barksdale Airfield dedicated.[21]
* 1934 – Long–Allen Bridge opens.[2]
* 1935 – Rodessa oil field discovered in vicinity of Shreveport.[8]
* 1940 – Population: 98,167.[22]
* 1948
* U.S. military Barksdale Air Force Base active.
* KWKH's Louisiana Hayride radio programme begins broadcast.
* 1950
* Shreveport metropolitan area was started
* Population: 127,206.[22]
* 1952 – North Louisiana Historical Association established.
* 1954 - KSLA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[23]
* 1955 - KTBS-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[23]
* 1960
* Shreveport metropolitan area Added Bossier Parish
* Population: 164,372.[22]
* 1965 - LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport opened.
* 1967 – Louisiana State University in Shreveport opens.
* 1970 – Population: 182,064.[22]
* 1972 – Quail Creek Cinema in business.[18]
* 1973 - Shreveport metropolitan area Added Webster Parish
* 1977 – Pioneer Heritage Center and Spring Street Historical Museum founded.[24]
* 1980 – Population: 205,820.[22]
* 1981 – General Motors plant begins operating in Shreveport.
* 1983 - Shreveport metropolitan area Removed Webster Parish
* 1986
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport established.[25]
* Commercial National Bank Tower (hi-rise) built.
* 1988 – Jim McCrery becomes U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.[26][relevant?]
* 1990 – Population: 198,525.[22]
* 1993 - Shreveport metropolitan area Redded Webster Parish
* 1994
* Stephens African American Museum founded.[24]
* Harrah's casino built.
* 1998
* Keith Hightower becomes mayor.[5][relevant?]
* City website online (approximate date).[27][chronology citation needed]

## 21st century

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* 2003
* Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area Replaced Webster Parish to De Soto Parish
* 2004 – Convention Center built.[2]
* 2006 – Cedric Glover becomes first African-American in city elected mayor.[5][relevant?]
* 2009 – John Fleming becomes U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.[28][relevant?]
* 2010 – Population: 199,311.[29]
* 2014 – Ollie Tyler becomes first African-American woman in city elected mayor.[5][relevant?]
* 2023
* October 25: Mike Johnson is elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first U.S. Congressman from Louisiana to hold this position.

## See also

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* History of Shreveport, Louisiana
* List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
* Other cities in Louisiana:
* Timeline of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
* Timeline of New Orleans

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g Waring 1887.
2. ^ a b c d Hellmann 2006.
3. ^ Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "Louisiana: Individual County Chronologies". Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
4. ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
5. ^ a b c d "Listing of the Mayors of Shreveport". City of Shreveport, Louisiana. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
6. ^ a b c d e f "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
7. ^ Patti Underwood. "Oakland Cemetery: Timeline". Retrieved July 2, 2016 - via Louisiana State University Shreveport, Noel Memorial Library.
8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Federal Writers' Project 1941.
9. ^ Acts passed by the Sixth Legislature of the state of Louisiana: at its extra session, held in the city of Shreveport, on the 4th of May, 1863, Laws, etc, Shreveport: Printed at the Caddo Gazette Office, 1863
10. ^ a b c Plummer 2000.
11. ^ R.J. Miciotto (1973). "Shreveport's First Major Health Crisis – 1873". Journal. 4. North Louisiana Historical Association. ISSN 0739-005X.
12. ^ a b "Who We Are: History". Shreveport: Shreve Memorial Library. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
13. ^ "Shreveport, Louisiana". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
14. ^ a b Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 693: "Chronology"
15. ^ a b Noel Memorial Library. "Archives Database". Louisiana State University Shreveport. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
16. ^ Louise Patton (1982). "Shreveport Art Club". Journal. 13. North Louisiana Historical Association. ISSN 0739-005X.
17. ^ Shreve Memorial Library Chronology, Shreveport, 1951 - via Shreve Memorial Library's Administrative Archives`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
18. ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Shreveport, LA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
19. ^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Louisiana", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
20. ^ "Handbook of North Louisiana Online". Shreveport: Northwest Louisiana Archives. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
21. ^ Jumonville 2002.
22. ^ a b c d e f Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
23. ^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Louisiana", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
24. ^ a b American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Louisiana: Shreveport". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. ISBN 0759100020.
25. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: USA". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
26. ^ "Louisiana". Official Congressional Directory: 101st Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1989. hdl:2027/mdp.39015024653415.
27. ^ "City of Shreveport, Louisiana Home Page". Archived from the original on January 10, 1998 - via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
28. ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
29. ^ "Shreveport city, Louisiana". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 2, 2016.

## Bibliography

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published in 19th century

* "Shreveport". Rand McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book for the United States and the Dominion of Canada. 1884.
* "Shreveport" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (9th ed.). 1886. p. 843.
* George E. Waring, Jr.; Department of the Interior, Census Office (1887), "Louisiana: Shreveport", Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 296–300
* "Caddo Parish". Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana. Nashville: Southern Publishing Company. 1890.

published in 20th century

* F.H. Richardson (1905). "Shreveport, Louisiana". Richardson's Southern Guide. Chicago: Monarch Book Company - via Internet Archive.
* "Shreveport" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 1015.
* Alcée Fortier (1914), "Shreveport", Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, Century Historical Association
* Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Shreveport". Louisiana: a Guide to the State. American Guide Series. NY: Hastings House. hdl:2027/uc1.$b727648. ISBN 9780403021697 - via HathiTrust. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) \+ Chronology
* Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Shreveport, LA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
* Marguerite R. Plummer; Gary D. Joiner (2000). Historic Shreveport-Bossier: An Illustrated History of Shreveport and Bossier City. San Antonio: Historical Publishing Network. ISBN 978-1-893619-08-1.

published in 21st century

* Florence M. Jumonville (2002). "Caddo Parish". Louisiana History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood. pp. 401–486\. ISBN 978-0-313-28240-9.
* Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Louisiana: Shreveport". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Routledge. pp. 441–442\. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.
* Gary D. Joiner; Ernie Roberson (2010). Lost Shreveport: Vanishing Scenes from the Red River Valley. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-856-9.

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City of Shreveport, Louisiana

Topics|

* History
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* Geography
* Politics
* Economy
* Sports
* Shreveporters

Shreveport
neighborhoods|

* Downtown
* Riverfront District
* Highlands
* Shreve City
* Anderson Island
* Broadmoor
* Shreve Island
* Southern Hills
* Jewella-South Park
* Cross Lake
* LSUS-University Area
* Greenwood
* Blanchard
* Texas Border

Education|

| K-12|

* Caddo Public Schools
* C. E. Byrd HS
* Caddo Magnet HS
* Huntington HS
* Southwood HS
* Booker T. Washington HS
* Woodlawn HS
* Calvary Baptist Academy
* Evangel Christian Academy
* Loyola College Prep

| Former|

* Central High School
* Fair Park Medical Careers Magnet HS
* Milam Street Trade School

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Universities|

* Louisiana State University Shreveport
* LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport
* Southern University at Shreveport

Transportation|

* Regional Airport
* Downtown Airport

Media|

* The Times

| Former|

* Shreveport Journal

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Landmarks|

* Long–Allen Bridge
* Scottish Rite Cathedral
* US Post Office and Courthouse

Culture|

* Shreveport Opera

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