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It was driven at Bossier City on July 12, 1884, by Julia "Pansy" Rule. The "golden spike" commemorated the completion of the east-west Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad. Later, Governor Earl Kemp Long issued a proclamation classifying Bossier City a city. Continued growth led to Bossier City's classification being changed from village to town by Governor John M. Bossier City has grown from an area of one square mile to a city containing more than 40 square miles (100 km 2). Hoyer continued to reside in what is known as the Bliss-Hoyer House in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood. Blanchard named a Shreveport businessman, Ewald Max Hoyer, as the first Bossier City mayor. Blanchard and renamed as the village of Bossier City. The area grew quickly, as did transportation through it.Ĭane City was said as being incorporated by former Governor Newton C.

Classification as a cityĪnna B., granddaughter of James and Mary, felt the area would prosper and began promoting the idea of a riverfront city. The covered road made the transportation of goods easier before the arrival of the railroads. There was a plantation at the end of the elevated and covered roadway, which was reached by a ferry boat. It extended for 9 miles (14 km) from Red Chute to the Red River. Shed Road, the first all-weather turnpike in the American South, was constructed in the 1870s and operated from 1874 to 1886. The Civil War hit Bossier Parish in 1861, and ended in Shreveport four years later when the Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered. The others were Batteries Price, and Walker & Ewell.įort Smith stood near the now Bossier High School, and protected the area from an eastern invasion. Cane's plantation was fortified to protect Shreveport by three batteries, with Fort Kirby Smith in the center. Cane hosted hundreds of Confederate officers and troops who were heading off to war. Civil Warĭuring the Civil War, companies of Confederate soldiers left Cane's Landing aboard steamboats for the distant battlefields. In 1850, the census listed the population at around 6,962. Some of these settlers stayed, attracted by the soil and river valley. By 1850, over 200 wagons a week passed through Bossier City.

Many early settlers passed through the region on their way to the wild West. In the 1840s, the Great Western Migration began, and the parish grew in population. He is considered one of the first settlers in the area. The section of land was named in honor of Pierre Evariste John Baptiste Bossier, a former Creole general, who became a cotton farmer in Bossier Parish. In 1843, a section of land was divided out of the Great Natchitoches district and Claiborne Parish areas and was called Bossier Parish. Bennett Cane and her family were one of the earliest settlers in the area, and Mary gave birth to the first white baby of the area, a son, William Smith Bennett Jr., who died at an early age. For a very short time, Cane's Landing was known as Cane City. The plantation loading and unloading dock later became known as Cane's Landing in the old ferry log books. Elysian Grove plantation was on the Red River, at the intersection of the Texas Trail on the Red River where the trading post ran the ferry crossing between what was to become Shreveport and Bossier.