Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Opened in 1895, Justin Gras Grocery and Liquor here once stood as Shreveport's largest retail grocery business. Famous for saying "What is good for Shreveport is good for me," Gras gave to numerous causes, including a $2.3 . . .
(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Opened in 1895, Justin Gras Grocery and Liquor here once stood as Shreveport's largest retail grocery business. Famous for saying "What is good for Shreveport is good for me," Gras gave to numerous causes, including a $2.3 . . . (Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Built by Martin Tally about 1865. Known as the Smith Building from 1870. Extensively remodelled 1897. Served as first Federal Courthouse of Shreveport 1881-1887. Later home to Eliott Electric Company and Harrison Tobacco Company.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Built 1910 for Arkansas-St. Louis-Southwestern Railroad. Only surviving passenger railroad terminal in city built prior to WWI. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1991.
Cornerstone laid Nov. 26, 1926. Officially dedicated May 19, 1927. A fine example of the Spanish "Hacienda" style adapted for public buildings. The second floor still contains original jail cells.
Travel on the Toll Road remained difficult due to the road's roughness. Pulling heavy loads over the road's two summits often fell upon oxen, The crack of the bullwhacker's whip and snort of laboring beasts were common . . . 
Built in circa 1840 by Alex B. Hughes, the house remained in the Hughes family until its donation to the Bossier Restoration Foundation in 1972. This was the boyhood home of William Clark Hughes who was the Speaker of the . . . 
Completion of the Toll Road in 1879 brought a period of prosperity to the Yankee Fork. Now heavy equipment needed to construct a mill could be transported in and large quantities of gold bullion shipped out to market. It . . . 
Capt. Samuel DeGolyer Lieut. Theodore Lockwood The battery served two 12-pounder howitzers and four James rifles ?in this position from about May 25, to the end of the siege ?July 4, 1863, except that one 12 pounder . . . 
Lack of development and limited government services in the western territories created opportunities for entrepreneurs like Alex Toponce. Arriving from France at age seven, Toponce traveled west and by age 18 had worked as a . . . 
Capt. William S. Williams. The battery served two 6-pounder guns and four James rifles in this position from about May 25 toJune 6, when one of the 6-pounder guns was moved to an advanced battery on right of Jackson Road. . . . 
By 1880 improvements to the Toll Road allowed the establishment of a stage line from Bonanza City to Challis. Along the Toll Road several stations provided services for drivers, and passengers. Eleven Mile Barn provided . . . 
Yankee Fork residents found few comforts and many hardships due to their remote location. Snow slides, work-related accidents, and disease combined with the lack of medical services created a difficult lifestyle. Evidence of . . . 
Engineer Regt. of the West First Battalion Pioneers Major Henry Flad Major William Tweeddale Thirty – Fifth Infantry Company I Pioneers Lieut. Christian Lochbihler 
Col. Zenas R. Bliss 1st Brig.: 2nd Div. 9th Corps. 
Co. D. Capt. Eberlee P.H. Stone, Served on Gunboat "Tyler" and on U.S.S. "Tuscumbia." Co. K. Capt. Elijah P. Curtis. Served with detachments of other companies on Gunboat "Petrel." Casualties: Co. D. Bombardment Grand Gulf, . . . 
On Feb. 17, 1690, Henri de Tonti, a trader and French army officer known as the Iron Hand, arrived in this area to search for LaSalle's lost colony. While here, he helped arrange a treaty between the Taensa and Natchitoches Indians.
Nearest point of Federal advance on Shreveport during Civil War. About four miles to southwest near confluence of streams Confederates sank steamer New Falls City which blocked passage of Federal gunboats, April 10, 1864.
Built c.1875, was residence of Elam S. Dortch, believed to be the last surviving Confederate veteran residing in Bossier Parish. Moved c.1923 to present site from original location nearer river. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1982.
This Building Ducournau Building 1835 Has Been Placed On The National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior
