Promiscuous Peddling
In 1936, the city of Shreveport (Caddo Parish, Louisiana) erected a Farmers Market on Greenwood Road, modeled after a similar market in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Old Shed Road
The only extant depiction of Shed Road I've found, so far, comes from a 1926 article in the Bossier Banner Progress. Bossier City didn't...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Writing smack
This signature is by Athanase De Mézières, who signed a letter, dated February 12, 1772, briefly describing his expedition to the...
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Wilhelmina Heloise
- Aug 1, 2022
Fur Trade in the Red River Valley
A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- May 15, 2022
Going the distance
The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
Humble historic home
Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 29, 2021
A nice long stroll
A broadly circulated description of Louisiana explained how travelers could get to Mexico from Natchez, Mississippi, and this 1814 map...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2021
Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport
In January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 17, 2019
An international boundary in the middle of nowhere
Just north of Logansport, Louisiana, along FM 31 in Panola County, Texas and CR 765 in De Soto Parish , sits one of the more interesting...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 27, 2019
Paddle Wheelers on the Red, part I
Paddle wheeler “Amy Hewes” on the Red River (no date), but most likely this picture was taken in the 1940s. The “Amy Hewes” was built in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Nov 13, 2018
Spanish Bluff
Reader Ben Jones graciously shared a vantage point of the Red River that’s rarely seen nowadays – Spanish Bluff on the southern bank of...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 18, 2018
Stage Coach Times
Adverts in old newspapers help to provide context to history, such as how much the Red River Valley was interconnected long before our...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 20, 2018
An Embarrassment of Architectural Treasures in De Soto Parish
According to the National Register, De Soto Parish, which lies between the Red and Sabine rivers in northwestern Louisiana, contains the...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jun 28, 2018
Fun with maps
French map from 1754 (Library of Congress) Did you know that the now- states of Arkansas and Louisiana once bordered Georgia, North, and...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Mar 25, 2018
Union Relics from the Red River Campaign
The Red River in Louisiana experienced quite a bit of troubles in 1864. Nathan Banks, Union general, commandeered several gunboats to...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 9, 2018
A trip to historic Shreveport
In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 17, 2018
Caddos along the Red River Valley
Three major Native American tribes called the Red River Valley of the Southwest home long before Europeans staked their claims. The...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 3, 2016
Death Divided
I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Nov 23, 2014
Louisiana Respect
Texas is a big state. It’s also my birthplace and the birthplace of my dad, so of course I feel affinity for it… sometimes. It’s also a...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 5, 2008
Additions to My Site = More to Explore!
This old plantation store between Shreveport and Natchitoches, Louisiana, is where sharecroppers, who were paid with scrip, would buy...
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