WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NORTH LOUISIANA?


Shreveport Bossier Fun Guide

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Hattie Lee Davidson

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Madison Courthouse Jail

To learn more about the Historic ARCHITECTURE in North Louisiana CLICK HERE!

Bossier Parish – Barksdale Old Hospital – photo by Neil Johnson

Bossier Parish - Barksdale Old Hospital - photo by Neil Johnson

Barksdale Field Historic District (part of Barksdale AFB)
Architects: various, lead construction quartermaster was Captain George E. Lamb.
Completed: 1930-1939, 259 structures built. Costs: $ millions.
Nine structures selected to represent the Historic District: original Post Headquarters; Water Tower; Chapel; original Post Hospital; Brant House; three Officer and Noncommissioned Officers quarters; and barracks. (Historian’s Note: Although Barksdale AFB is physically in Bossier Parish, the land was bought by a bond issue from the City of Shreveport with the assembled land for the base annexed to the City of Shreveport and then deeded to the U.S. Government for one dollar.)