About Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Shreveport-Bossier City , La. is a mix of Southern charm and modern convenience. We welcome our visitors and treat our company like family, with heaping plates of good food and all the entertainment they can handle.
Festivals are our trademark, and we hold them from the time the first warm breeze dances across our faces to the time the air turns noticeably nippy. Our festivals bring together longtime residents as well as visitors who come from nearby cities – and even from across the country -- just to experience our type of fun. Shreveport Bossier City festivals draw hundreds of thousands, from this state and lots more.
Our artistic legacy runs deep. We have live theater and symphony performances, as well as comedy. Our museums highlight our rich history, including our place in musical lore as the place where Elvis Presley got his start on the Louisiana Hayride on the Municipal Auditorium’s stage.
The twin cities of Shreveport and Bossier City have been here for more than 150 years. Shreveport was named for Capt. Henry Miller Shreve, a boat captain who cleared a logjam that clogged the Red River for 165 miles. It was Shreve’s work in the 1830s that opened the way for trade, allowing Shreveport to grow. The city was incorporated in 1839. Ours is a past of agriculture, lumber, and manufacturing. Oil gave us a boom, while tourism is the major industry of today.
Bossier City got its start as a trading post in the 1840s, before becoming incorporated as Bossier City in 1907. A generation later, Barksdale Air Force Base arrived and became the world’s largest airfield of the time and a key player in World War II.
We are conveniently located along the banks of the Red River, where we are home to riverboat casinos on both sides of the water. Shreveport-Bossier City, La. has become a key filming location for Hollywood productions, and attracts international attention.
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