Cane & Bennett's Trading Post

The names belong to a partnership that outlived both men. William Smith Bennett died in 1837 and James Huntington Cane in 1844, but their store on the bluffs by the Texas Trail was where the Shreve Town Company met on May 27, 1836 and where both men joined it. Mary Bennett Cane, wife of Bennett and then of Cane, inherited their shares, became the company's greatest beneficiary and bought land in Caddo and Bossier parishes. She died in 1902. Henry Shreve, whose name the town took, never lived there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 0.2 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.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 0.6 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.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 0.6 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.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 3.3 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• First City Market — steps away
• Henry Watkins Allen / Battery 10 — 0.2 mi
• Shreve Memorial Library — 0.2 mi
• Gen. E. Kirby Smith Residence — 0.3 mi