The Peru Ferry near Gilliam served passengers and oil field traffic between Gilliam, Louisiana and the Old Plain Dealing Road.

A 1721 map places the Yattassee village (spelled Yatachez) on the eastern side of the Red River.

De la Harpe and his men built a wooden trading post at the "abandoned village of the Nassonite chief."

The conflict between the American new-comers and the "old inhabitants" could be seen with the establishment of Fort Claiborne.

Fort Jesup, erected in 1822 along the Camino de Real (Spanish Road) replaced Fort Claiborne of 1804.

While at the Ouachita River, Bernard de la Harpe claimed to have eaten a unicorn.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.

A ticket reserved passage on the steam boat Relief, which paddled down the river from White Oak Shoals (Arkansas) to Natchitoches.

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

The village of Natchitoches welcomed Fort St. Jean Baptiste in the early 18th century.

Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.