Shreveport, Louisiana

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Shreveport is the third-largest city and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as being the 109th-largest city in the United States.

History
Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas and, prior to that time, into Mexico.

Libraries

 * Shreve Memorial Library
 * Noel Memorial Library, LSU Shreveport

Newspapers

 * Shreveport Times

Websites

 * City of Shreveport official website
 * shreveport.net
 * www.shreveport.com