While the current perception of Shreveport might be somewhat tainted, especially by outsiders who only believe what they might have read, there was a time when the eyes of the entire world were on our fair city.
Some might belittle us with nicknames like “Ratchet City”, “Sleezeport”, or “Shreve-pit”, but those might not realize Shreveport’s history of overcoming extreme obstacles that made this little spot on the Red River one of Louisiana’s largest cities.
In fact, from the very beginning, Shreveport had to take on the aftermath of Mother Nature with the clearing of the “Great Raft” on the Red River by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, just to get things started…