Louisiana African American Heritage Trail: Shreveport, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Hammond, Louisiana

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Shreveport, Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Hammond, Louisiana, Opelousas, Louisiana, Monroe, Louisiana, Delta, Louisiana, Wallace, Louisiana, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, Natchez, Louisiana, Grambling State University, Southern University, Marie Therese Metoyer, Melrose Plantation, Saint Louis Cemetery, St. Augustine Parish Church, Laura Plantation, Congo Square, St. Augustine Church, Magnolia Plantation, Oakland Plantation, River Road African American Museum, Evergreen Plantation, Port Hudson National Cemetery, Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum, Whitney Plantation Historic District, Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Multicultural Center of the South, French Market, Cane River National Heritage Area, Bontemps African American Museum. Excerpt: 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 109th-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 398,604 at the 2010 census, and the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area population exceeds 375,910. The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks 117th in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau. 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...