Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana

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

19th century

• 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.
• 1895 – Evening Judge newspaper in publication.^[6]
• 1896 – Holy Trinity Catholic Church rebuilt.^[8]
• 1899 – Genevieve Orphanage established.^[4]

20th century

• 1900 – Population: 16,013.
• 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.
• 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]
• 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 – Woman’s Auxiliary to the Shreveport Medical Society formed.^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• 1934 – Long–Allen Bridge opens.^[2]
• 1935 – Rodessa oil field discovered in vicinity of Shreveport.^[8]
• 1940 – Population: 98,167.^[21]
• 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.^[21]
• 1952 – North Louisiana Historical Association established.
• 1960
  • Shreveport metropolitan area Added Bossier Parish
  • Population: 164,372.^[21]
• 1967 – Louisiana State University in Shreveport opens.
• 1970 – Population: 182,064.^[21]
• 1972 – Quail Creek Cinema in business.^[18]
• 1973
  • Shreveport metropolitan area Added Webster Parish
• 1977 – Pioneer Heritage Center and Spring Street Historical Museum founded.^[22]
• 1980 – Population: 205,820.^[21]
• 1981 – General Motors plant begins operating in Shreveport.
• 1983
  • Shreveport metropolitan area Removed Webster Parish
• 1984 – Louisiana Tower (hi-rise) built.
• 1986
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Shreveport established.^[23]
  • Commercial National Bank Tower (hi-rise) built.
• 1988 – Jim McCrery becomes U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.^[24]
• 1990 – Population: 198,525.^[21]
• 1993
  • Shreveport metropolitan area Redded Webster Parish
• 1994
  • Stephens African American Museum founded.^[22]
  • Harrah's casino built.
• 1998
  • Keith Hightower becomes mayor.^[5]
  • City website online (approximate date).^[25]

21st century

• 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]
• 2007 – Hilton Hotel Convention Center built.
• 2009 – John Fleming becomes U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.^[26]
• 2010 – Population: 199,311.^[27]
• 2014 – Ollie Tyler becomes first African-American woman in city elected mayor.^[5]

See also

• 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

1. Waring 1887.
2. 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. Britannica 1910.
5. "Listing of the Mayors of Shreveport". City of Shreveport, Louisiana. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
6. "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. 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, Shreveport: Printed at the Caddo Gazette Office, 1863
10. Plummer 2000.
11. R.J. Miciotto (1973). "Shreveport's First Major Health Crisis – 1873". Journal. North Louisiana Historical Association. 4. ISSN 0739-005X.
12. "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. Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 693: "Chronology"
15. Noel Memorial Library. "Archives Database". Louisiana State University Shreveport. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
16. Louise Patton (1982). "Shreveport Art Club". Journal. North Louisiana Historical Association. 13. ISSN 0739-005X.
17. Shreve Memorial Library Chronology, Shreveport, 1951 – via Shreve Memorial Library's Administrative Archives
18. "Movie Theaters in Shreveport, LA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
19. "Handbook of North Louisiana Online". Shreveport: Northwest Louisiana Archives. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
20. Jumonville 2002.
21. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
22. American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Louisiana: Shreveport". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
23. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: USA". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
24. "Louisiana". Official Congressional Directory: 101st Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1989.
25. "City of Shreveport, Louisiana Home Page". Archived from the original on January 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
26. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
27. "Shreveport city, Louisiana". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 2, 2016.

Bibliography

published in the 19th century

• "Shreveport". Rand McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book for the United States and the Dominion of Canada. 1884.
• 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 the 20th century

• F.H. Richardson (1905). "Shreveport, Louisiana". Richardson's Southern Guide. Chicago: Monarch Book Company – via Internet Archive.
• "Shreveport", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• 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 – via HathiTrust. + Chronology
• Eric J. Brock (1998). Shreveport. Images of America. Arcadia. ISBN 978-0-7385-9001-1.

published in the 21st century

• 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.
• Florence M. Jumonville (2002). "Caddo Parish". Louisiana History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood. p. 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.

External links

• Items related to Shreveport, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).