A lot of us who grew up on or around Caddo Lake somehow take this majestic body of water for granted.
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We have somehow allowed ourselves to numb to the incredible storied past of the lake sitting on the border of Louisiana and Texas.
Not only is Caddo, formerly known as Ferry Lake, home to the largest cypress forest in the world, the lake has plenty of legends to satisfy the thrill seeker in all of us.
According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the great timber raft that clogged the Red River for nearly eighty miles above and below present day Shreveport and Bossier City disrupted the river’s water flow and spilled into Louisiana’s Cypress Valley and formed the lake around 1800.
The Caddo Indian Tribe Tells A Completely Different Story
However, legend has it that Caddo Lake, re-named to honor the area’s Caddoan indigenous people, was formed when a Caddo chief failed to obey the Great Spirit, resulting in an enormous earthquake…