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ID: 7014504
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014504
Record Type:
administrative
Shreveport (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 093 45 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -93.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Red River in NW Louisiana; early economy was dependent on steamboat & river traffic; toward end of Civil War, served as Trans-Mississippi headquarters for Confederacy; discovery of oil in 1906 stimulated economy.
Names:
Shreveport
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Shreve Town
(
C
,
V
)
Shreves Landing
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Louisiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Caddo
(parish (political)) (
P
)
....................
Shreveport
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since 1835 when land was purchased from Caddo Indians for 80,000 dollars and Henry Miller Shreve, a river captain, helped settle area
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for oil, petroleum & natural gas
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for cotton & lumber
educational center (
C
)
............
houses Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana State University at Shreveport & Baptist Christian College
cultural center (
C
)
............
for spring festival "Holiday in Dixie," & arts & crafts fair "Red River Revel"
Sources and Contributors:
Shreveport..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 766-767
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22015259
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1110
Shreves Landing..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22015259
Shreve Town..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22015259
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 766-767
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22015259
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1110
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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