Bossier Parish Court Police Jury

Claiborne Parish was cut from Natchitoches territory in 1828, and Bossier Parish was cut from Claiborne on February 24, 1843, named for Pierre Bossier, a Creole general turned cotton planter. The Red River bottoms drew settlers from the South Atlantic states and Mississippi, and the census of 1850 counted about 4,455 enslaved people in the parish against 2,507 whites. By 1860 estimates reach about 9,000. The new parish government sat atop an economy that rested on the forced labor of Black families, and cotton lands among the richest in the state.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 17 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Germantown Colony Museum — 17 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 17 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 18 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.

More markers nearby

• Bellevue Cemetery — steps away
• Hughes House — 13 mi
• Confederate Monument — 13 mi
• Bowling at Holiday Lanes — 14 mi